Draymond Green Slams Knicks Owner for His 'Slave Master Mentality'

To say that the fallout from the James Dolan/Charles Oakley feud has been a PR disaster for the Knicks would be an understatement. And now, in addition to all the other prominent voices who felt it necessary to add their two cents to this story, Draymond Green is weighing in by invoking slavery for the second time in less than a week.

"You doing it for me, it's all good," said Green on his Uninterrupted "Dray Day" podcast, referencing the decade Oakley spent as a Knicks player. "You doing it against me -- you speaking out against my organization -- it's not good anymore? That's a slave mentality. A slave master mentality. That's ridiculous."

"It was all fine and dandy when he was laying people out, taking fines and all this stuff for your organization. But now, all of a sudden, when he says something that he feels, it's a problem," he added.

As you likely know, Oakley was booted by security guards from a game at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 8. The team claims he was being verbally abusive to the staff, and he was also charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault after allegedly getting into a physical confrontation with the security attempting to remove him. Not surprisingly, Oakley denies this version of events.

As a result of the clash, Dolan banned Oakley for life. That ban turned out to be a little more dramatic in practice, as it lasted for less than a week. Dolan offered up an apology on Tuesday, but Oakley refused to take it, and said he won't be accepting an invite to future Knicks' home games as he's still mad about the team making a public accusation that he has an alcohol problem.

Green also took umbrage with that (which, for the record, Oakley has denied). "That's not something that you say to the world. That's not classy at all," Green said on the same podcast. "It's not OK for you to go say to the world as a multibillion-dollar organization. How can you even pin that on someone? Just throw that out there. That's grimy. I think that's wrong."

Finally, as if that all wasn't bad enough, Green also stated he thinks the Knicks will have trouble landing free agents as a result of the much hyped, possibly over-publicized, story. "When you look at what's going on with the Melo situation in their organization and now how they're doing Charles Oakey, I don't know a free agent that would want to go there. I don't know someone that would really want to go there," he said.

Consider your options Knicks fans.