Ex-Knicks star Charles Oakley must pay MSG $642K for court battle over his ejection
NY Post
It’s a legal score for MSG.
Former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley must pay more than $642,000 in lawyer fees to Madison Square Garden for deleting text messages during a court battle over his ejection from a game eight years ago, according to court documents.
The 61-year-old former power forward — who filed a defamation lawsuit against the arena firm and its CEO James Dolan in September 2017 — is accused of sending the company’s high-priced attorneys on a wallet-busting wild goose chase.
“On or around July 10, 2024, [Oakley’s] counsel discovered that all text messages sent to or from [his] phone prior to February 2022 had been deleted,” the court papers, filed Friday in New York federal court, state.
Though the basketball star had been subpoenaed for the texts, Oakley had “not ever attempt[ed] to preserve, collect, image, or copy [his]personal devices,” according to the court documents.
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