Oakley talks Knicks

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, November 17, 2012 with 5 comments
In a perfect world both Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley would have a job in some capacity with the New York Knicks, the franchise that they were the faces of during the 1990's.  Allen Houston who played for the Knicks in the late 90's has become the team's assistant GM and Baron Davis who's only played 29 games for the Knicks last season is the team mentor while rehabbing his devastating knee injury.  Recently, Oakley spoke to the media about why he doesn't have a front office position.

“They say I’m hard on them. I say, I’m not hard on them; that’s just the way the game goes and people have opinions,” Oakley said. “Ex-players I talk to, they say, ‘Management, they like you. But sometimes it’s the way you say things, the way you do things....I don’t know. I try to keep it simple and up front. I feel like I owe that to the fans with them coming to watch me for 10 years, following me, being a fan of mine. I feel I’m not going to let them down because somebody else wants to say something else. . . . (Dolan) shouldn’t be mad at me because all I did was come before him and play the hardest and the best I could do. I’m going to be a Knick for life, though, no matter what people say.”