One-time New York Knicks All-Star Charles Oakley said Madison Square Garden and its longtime lawyer, first deputy New York City mayor Randy Mastro, should be sanctioned for making "false and baseless" statements about the former NBA player's ejection from the audience at a 2017 Knicks game.
MSG last month filed its own sanctions motion against Oakley and his lawyers at Wigdor and Petrillo Klein & Boxer, accusing them of pushing what they called a "false narrative" about Oakley's ejection. The stadium also asked the judge to dismiss Oakley's lawsuit for good.
The dueling sanctions bids are the latest contentious exchange in an eight-year lawsuit Oakley brought against MSG and James Dolan, who owns both the Knicks and the stadium.
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