He feels like a pawn in his own life, sacrificed for the good of the Knicks and the NBA. He has vented to a lot of reporters and friends, and the message is usually the same: Oakley and I have talked four times this week, and I guess I should feel special. “Any time for Patrick to speak up, you think this would be it – he was my closest teammate who played with me,” Oakley said. And he wondered aloud why his most celebrated former Knicks teammate didn’t say anything on his behalf during the most hellish week of his life. He said he has lost all respect for the three former Knicks players who sat with Dolan during a game at the Garden last week. He took aim at NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who he said had “tricked” him into being a part of a meeting with New York Knicks owner James Dolan for the sake of public relations. He talked reverently about his late grandparents, who grew up in Jim Crow Alabama and whose struggle he feels the need to honor today.

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Combined, he went off on everyone and their mom for maybe 30 minutes. Charles Oakley called again on Wednesday morning.

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