Former Knicks star Charles Oakley wants a federal judge to watch the recent video of team owner James Dolan booting a heckler from Madison Square Garden.
In court papers filed Wednesday, Oakley says the cellphone recording of last week’s incident is “germane” to a pending motion by Dolan to dismiss Oakley’s suit over getting thrown out of the arena in 2017.
It also “squarely contradicts” Dolan’s “self-serving” claim that surveillance video shows Oakley abusing fans and personnel before he was ejected, Oakley claims.
“As the Fan Video makes clear…Dolan needs no such justification whatsoever to engage in the same kind of conduct to which he subjected [Oakley],” lawyer Douglas Wigdor wrote in the letter to Manhattan federal Judge Sullivan
The 35-second video shows Dolan confronting an unidentified man who shouted “Sell the team!