Pablo Torre

That's excellent.

And James Dolan, meanwhile, to ESPN says, quote, he may have a problem with alcohol.

We don't know.

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But the thing we know now, thanks to your reporting here, is somewhat happened in the aftermath of that incident at the Garden.

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I cannot imagine that Charles Oakley appreciated the idea of being tailed all across America.

He did not appreciate that, no.

And so what we did here at Pablo Torre Finds Out is call up Charles Oakley ourselves to ask him about this allegation.

And we should be very clear that Charles Oakley at this point has been a longtime critic of Jim Dolan.

Yeah.

And his defamation claim against Dolan and his companies, that has been dismissed, although the legal battles, those still continue to this day.

But one part of this story that we wanted to hear for ourselves here on this show from Oakley personally has to do with a night at the garden.

And he's with the guy he used to protect on the court.

Yeah.

Patrick Ewing, the Hall of Famer, the sweatiest, most glorious figure in my childhood.

And at the time of this story, Patrick Ewing was an assistant coach for visiting Charlotte.

Here they are back in the building together.

But the thing that you've been digging into, that's the shit that kind of blew my mind.

Which is to say that James Dolan, as the NBA is concerned, as pro sports is concerned, is something of a pioneer.