The NBA lastly has set a date to resolve the authorized dispute between the Knicks and the Raptors, however that received’t be till the summer season of 2025.
A listening to has been set for late July, a league supply advised The Submit’s Stefan Bondy.
That’s 13 months after the courts handed off the case to the NBA for arbitration and almost two years because the authentic lawsuit was filed in August 2023, accusing former Knicks worker Ike Azotam of “illegally taking thousands of proprietary files with him to his new position” with the Raptors.
“Last June, the Courts ordered the NBA to arbitrate this theft of proprietary and confidential files — and now, after the NBA sat on this for seven months, we are being told that we will finally get a hearing in another seven months,” an MSG Sports activities spokesperson mentioned in an announcement. “We remain skeptical because the NBA has consistently demonstrated no desire to address this matter, most likely due to the fact that the Chairman of the NBA is the defendant.”
The Knicks have been looking for $10 million in damages as a part of the unique authorized submitting, however a federal choose dominated in June that the dispute ought to be arbitrated by NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
The choose requested an replace from the league by Dec. 13, however the groups had agreed in a joint submitting that the NBA had not offered any replace by that deadline.
The 2 franchises lastly heard from the league Monday that the matter could be investigated.
“The NBA has admitted to sitting on this serious theft of proprietary and confidential files for several months,” an MSG Sports activities spokesperson mentioned Monday. “The NBA has a clear conflict of interest and a lack of desire to see a fair outcome in this matter — which we’ve said all along.”
Injured guard Landry Shamet appeared in his first recreation Monday for G League Westchester since struggling a dislocated shoulder within the preseason and being waived in October.
The six-year NBA veteran scored 10 factors in 19 minutes.
“I watched the game [Monday] night and we had a number of guys play well. It was encouraging just to see him out there,” Tom Thibodeau mentioned. “It’s good to see him out there healthy again and then there, but there are a number of things that have to happen before he could play with us.”
