{"id":716851,"date":"2026-04-23T23:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:19:38","slug":"max-kellerman-calls-on-nba-to-ban-knicks-james-dolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716851\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Kellerman calls on NBA to ban Knicks’ James Dolan"},"content":{"rendered":"

If James Dolan is going to keep banning fans from New York Knicks games, Max Kellerman thinks the league should consider banning Dolan from the NBA.<\/p>\n

Despite the Knicks currently enjoying one of their most successful three-year runs in franchise history<\/a>, Dolan remains one of the least popular owners in New York and in sports. Dolan is still criticized for overseeing the Knicks during one of their longest successful eras in franchise history. And he\u2019s also criticized for being notoriously thin-skinned.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, Dolan<\/a> admitted he relies on facial recognition technology<\/a> to identify ticket-holding lawyers from firms suing him and to have them removed from MSG-owned venues. Pablo Torre, however, recently found out<\/a> that Dolan uses facial recognition technology to detect fans who were critical of him on social media. Similarly, if a \u201csell the team\u201d chant is heard, MSG security is dispatched. And because his hypersensitivity to \u201csell the team\u201d chants is prompting MSG personnel to stalk fans essentially, Kellerman believes Dolan might have to sell the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that people aren\u2019t more outraged by this,\u201d Kellerman began on a recent episode<\/a> of Game Over with co-host Rich Paul. \u201cAnd I understand Donald Sterling lost his team because he was caught on audio saying explicitly racist things, but the point is the precedent was set, and I think it was a good one. \u2018We don\u2019t want that in the NBA.\u2019 Adam Silver treated the players like real partners in that case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kellerman noted he never expected Silver and the league to actually boot the longtime Clippers owner out, believing a hefty fine was more likely. But now that the precedent has been set, Kellerman thinks Dolan might have to be the next owner to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s so thin-skinned, his ego is so fragile, he can\u2019t take any kind of criticism. In a sports arena! He can\u2019t take criticism from fans?\u201d Kellerman continued. \u201cThat is so outrageous. I think before this gets worse, the league, the other owners should consider whether they want Dolan as a partner in this syndicate, whether they want him to own the Knicks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kellerman acknowledged the Sterling situation was different because his racist comments offended labor and made it difficult for players to play for him. That\u2019s not what Dolan is being accused of. But stalking and banning fans from the arena for anything other than illegal activity or security concerns is still egregious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If James Dolan is going to keep banning fans from New York Knicks games, Max Kellerman thinks the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,73861,3237,304,23429,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-716851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-game-over-with-max-kellerman-and-rich-paul","10":"tag-james-dolan","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-max-kellerman","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116456584943505013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}