Robert Silverman

And then in the mid-2010s, he got into an altercation.

I mean, there's lots of different ways to spin it, but he got into an altercation with MSG Security and was thrown out of the garden.

And

He was banned from there on in.

And there's been a series of accusations back and forth.

There's still all sorts of lawsuits going on.

But yeah, he's sort of the one guy that's been like ostracized.

And we've talked to some sources within the Madison Square Garden security community that say there was orders put out to follow him, to surveil him.

So this is not just like a typical situation of like a

A franchise kind of not getting along with a particular player.

There's been a long, ugly legal battle.

There's been accusations of surveillance, both digitally, audio, and physical tailing of the guy.

Right.

So there have been some attempts to rein this in.

Oddly, one of them came from New York's state liquor authority because they were like, hey, hold on a second.

You're discriminating against customers by putting them on this dystopian ban list.

So they sent an investigator, a former cop, to start asking around.

Madison Square Garden then put another – hired private investigators to tail the private investigator who was investigating the garden.

Oh, God.

Anyway, point being is when that happened, Jim Dolan also got on TV in New York, posted the head of the state liquor authorities' phone number and email and told Nick fans, you know –