"I mean I've been a Knicks fan since I was a kid, so this is just getting beyond belief," he said. But like many Knicks fans, he's getting fed up with what he sees. The inside cover of his new book, "But Seriously," is decorated with ticket stubs from games and concerts at the arena, including a Knicks playoff game. McEnroe grew up in and still lives in New York, and considers MSG his home arena. "I bet you Jim Dolan - this is just my opinion - had to feel terrible about what that was." Like, I was sick to my stomach, as well as almost every other fan that was in there watching this as it took place," McEnroe said. "To see Charles Oakley have handcuffs put on him was horrible. McEnroe is clearly visible in replays of the skirmish that were shown that night and throughout the next day. "So maybe Jim was already uncomfortable because of past history or whatever and then when Charles and the security guys started to go at it, even before they started to come up to him I was like, 'Uh oh, this is not going to go well, at all.' " "So I didn't put 2 and 2 together and I didn't know what had happened or really what had transpired," he said. I was like, 'Hey Charles, how are you? This is my son, Kevin.' He was with me. "I hadn't been up on that, so it wasn't awkward for me when he sort of poked me in my back, Charles, right before the incident happened. "I didn't even realize at the time that Charles had said bad things about him," McEnroe said. McEnroe, who often travels for his tennis or other obligations, wasn't aware of the history between Oakley and Dolan.
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