{"id":752469,"date":"2026-06-04T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/752469\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:33:18","slug":"adam-silver-charles-oakley-ban-a-shame-during-knicks-nba-finals-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/752469\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver: Charles Oakley ban &#8216;a shame&#8217; during Knicks&#8217; NBA Finals run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA commissioner addressed the ongoing feud and litigation between the former <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/new-york\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Knicks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Knicks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks<\/a> great and the team&#8217;s governor during his pre-NBA Finals press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>You opened by talking about how wonderful it is to see all these alumni here.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>You once tried to broker peace between James Dolan and Charles Oakley.<\/p>\n<p>Is it kind of a shame that he can&#8217;t be part of this?<\/p>\n<p>It, it is a shame in that, I tried, Michael Jordan tried to, as you said, to br- broker, peace, you know, between, Charles and Jim Dolan, and, our efforts, were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I think it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s unfortunate for the NBA that this is an ongoing situation, but as you know, it&#8217;s currently wrapped up in litigation, and I tried my best, so I don&#8217;t really see anything else I can do at the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA commissioner addressed the ongoing feud and litigation between the former Knicks great and the team&#8217;s governor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,304,6,3243,11],"class_list":["post-752469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-playoffs","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-nba-commissioner","tag-nba-playoffs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116693277315347006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752469","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=752469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}