• Charles Oakley: Julius Randle ‘a better version of Zion Williamson’

    Charles Oakley: Julius Randle ‘a better version of Zion Williamson’

    The Knicks have Julius Randle. New Orleans has Zion Williamson. Ex-Knicks enforcer Charles Oakley prefers New York’s lefty power-forward freight train. “I think (Randle’s) a better
  • Charles Oakley reveals shocking offer Knicks made to end feud

    Charles Oakley reveals shocking offer Knicks made to end feud

    The Knicks have been stingy when it comes to retiring their players’ numbers for posterity. Hanging in the Garden rafters are the elite contributors who have either won a Knicks championship or
  • Knicks’ 1990s glory days captured in two compelling books

    Knicks’ 1990s glory days captured in two compelling books

    Knicks fans will get to reminisce like it’s 1999. During this gloomy Knicks century of basketball, two books are emerging about the 1990s Knicks to brighten the day. The first, written by
  • Michael Jordan stepping into Knicks feud didn’t sit well with Charles Oakley

    Michael Jordan stepping into Knicks feud didn’t sit well with Charles Oakley

    To Charles Oakley, Michael Jordan the owner and Michael Jordan the former teammate are two different things. So when Jordan tried to help de-escalate the feud between Oakley and James Dolan in 2017 — calling for a talk with the two and commissioner Adam Silver after the ex-Knick was arrested and charged with assault following …
  • Charles Oakley’s Knicks answer: Snag Tom Thibodeau, get talent

    Charles Oakley’s Knicks answer: Snag Tom Thibodeau, get talent

    Charles Oakley has a good inkling whom the next Knicks coach will be. Knowing Knicks president Leon Rose is Tom Thibodeau’s former agent and that the two grew close, Oakley knows how the business works. Oakley believes the six-week, 11-candidate search will prove to have been much ado about nothing. “There it is then,’’ Oakley …
  • Charles Oakley sends support to Patrick Ewing after coronavirus diagnosis

    Charles Oakley sends support to Patrick Ewing after coronavirus diagnosis

    Charles Oakley appears to have called off his Patrick Ewing bashing. Oakley delivered a heartfelt message on social media after his former Knicks teammate and current Georgetown coach announced Friday he is hospitalized with the coronavirus in Washington DC. “I went to war with you for ten years. I won’t leave you on the battlefield …
  • Charles Oakley blames Patrick Ewing for Knicks’ failure to conquer Michael Jordan

    Charles Oakley blames Patrick Ewing for Knicks’ failure to conquer Michael Jordan

    Charles Oakley says Patrick Ewing’s inability to step up more in the 1993 playoff war versus the Bulls and Michael Jordan cost the Knicks a trip to The Finals — not Charles Smith. Oakley, the former Bulls and Knicks defensive enforcer, has watched “The Last Dance” series that picked up Sunday with a focus on …
  • Charles Oakley adds Patrick Ewing, Bernard King to Knicks enemies list

    Charles Oakley adds Patrick Ewing, Bernard King to Knicks enemies list

    Charles Oakley is taking a break in his feud with James Dolan and zeroing in instead on several prominent former Knicks. Oakley, the longtime former Knick who hasn’t been back at the Garden since his infamous arrest there in February of 2017, said he wanted to “smack” Bernard King and faulted Patrick Ewing’s lack of …
  • Chris Childs blasts Latrell Sprewell for being ‘pawn’ in Dolan-Oakley feud

    Chris Childs blasts Latrell Sprewell for being ‘pawn’ in Dolan-Oakley feud

    Former Knicks point guard Chris Childs ripped ex-teammate Latrell Sprewell for being “a pawn’’ in the Charles Oakley saga. Sprewell showed up sitting next to owner James Dolan at the next home game after Oakley was ejected and arrested at the Garden in February, 2017. Sprewell had been estranged from the franchise since being traded …
  • Spike Lee, Charles Oakley play martyr only when it suits them

    Spike Lee, Charles Oakley play martyr only when it suits them

    Spike Lee and Charles Oakley starred in full-page newspaper ads Friday as heroes of the downtrodden. But where would racial hustlers be if not for selectively sighted, pandering, frightened media? Since the Lee-Jimmy Dolan hassle — an epic struggle between the excessively self-entitled — Oakley, who had his own war with Dolan, has repeated his …