(Watch the videos below.) Smith was undone by the New York team’s flurry of moves. Smith on Thursday in a viral moment at the NBA Draft in Brooklyn. Director Spike Lee consoled ESPN star and fellow Knicks fan Stephen A. Morgan is a genuine Knicks fanatic and considers fellow celebs like Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Howard Stern, Jerry Ferrara, 50 Cent, Ben Stiller, Matthew Modine, and. “So if he’s been banned from Suite 200 he wouldn’t know it,” said an NBC insider. The movie director and the ESPN star commiserated over the Knicks chaotic draft night. Tom Brokaw stopped going, but only because he swore off the Knicks after too much heartbreak. One businessman who is no longer invited said, “What’s that expression - ‘familiarity breeds contempt’? They’re like the bad maitre d’s of the old days.” Suite 200 was rebuilt and enlarged in the three-year renovation of the Garden, but lots of the old faces are missing. Woody said fine and thanked them for the many years he had enjoyed the space there.”Ī Garden spokesman politely declined to comment but pointed out that Allen - unlike Spike Lee (who has worked on documentaries about the team) and Matthew Modine - has never done anything to help the team or Dolan’s youth charity, Garden of Dreams (of which Modine is a board member). They then said that this was a ‘reciprocal arrangement’ and that if Woody couldn’t go on TV for them, he should not eat in their VIP restaurant anymore. He has never done that for any show or network. “Woody said he would not be comfortable doing that. “He got a call from someone at MSG saying they had bought the rights to air several of Woody’s movies on the MSG channel and wanted Woody to go on the air and talk about his movies or introduce them,” a Woody source told me. Sources say Dolan had the Oscar-winning director banned from Suite 200, the VIP lounge at Madison Square Garden, after Allen refused to do any promotion for MSG Network or the Garden of Dreams Foundation.Īllen had been a regular for years in the suite, where models, pop stars and pro athletes gather before games and at halftime for free drinks and food. From She’s Gotta Have It in 1986 to Da 5 Bloods in 2020, Lee’s movies have earned him countless awards and accolades, a devoted fan base around the world, cemented his place in popular culture and made him extremely wealthy. Woody Allen is a huge Knicks supporter, but he’s no fan of the team’s owner, James Dolan.
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