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Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks

Ep. 8: No Passwords

Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks

The Athletic

Sports, Basketball, Business

4.4573 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Charles Oakley. Facial recognition. No passwords. The final episode of Shattered details the night Oakley was thrown out of the Garden, as well as the internal fallout at MSG from that night.

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0:00.0

Throughout this series, we've taken you through the past 20 years of James Dolan's ownership.

0:17.0

From the moment his father's company bought the garden,

0:19.7

but you have to understand this is the key issue of his life.

0:25.9

His whole life's, everyone has said to him, you are nothing,

0:30.7

and you wouldn't be in the position you're in, if not for your father.

0:36.3

Through all the different regimes who've run the Knicks basketball operations,

0:40.2

Isaiah Thomas, Donnie Walsh, Bill Jackson, and Steve Mills.

0:45.1

Just look at the track record.

0:46.3

There's a lot of good people that have gone through there and kind of gotten chewed up

0:49.7

and spit out.

0:50.8

It's just hard.

0:51.5

It's hard to work with them.

0:52.9

The results speak for themselves. And over all these

0:55.8

years, there's been one constant at the garden. The six degrees of everything that have happened

1:01.4

these last 20 years really ends up, you know, with Jim. And I think as long as he is there,

1:06.9

you're going to continue to see the dysfunction that has always been there since he walked through

1:10.6

the door.

1:11.9

On his final installment of Shattered, we'll tell the story of one of the lowest moments in recent Nick's history.

1:19.0

The night franchise legend, Charles Okle, was dragged out of the garden.

1:24.3

Everybody looking over there, apparently there's a Charles Oakley over there. He stands. What's the one of my foot? of the guard.

1:40.6

And how are that moment? And how that moment was the tip of the iceberg for the culture that James Dolan has built.

1:42.6

Mr. Dolan, you know, in his security unit, still have, you know, concerns about Charles Oakley.

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