Oakley: I ain’t ever seen a team lose make this much news. Maybe the Dallas Cowboys

Charles Oakley wants the NBA to keep an eye on James Dolan and the New York Knicks.

The former Knicks player spoke after the "altercation" between Spike Lee and the Knicks.

Per ESPN, “It’s got to be stopped in some kind of way," Oakley told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday night. "The NBA has got to take a look at this. You can’t keep closing your eyes to this. This is like, turn your head if you see someone beat somebody up and you just keep walking."

“It just keeps happening in New York," Oakley said. "People are not going to come here because it’s the same thing over and over and over. They got a new president, and all everyone is talking about what happened between Spike Lee and the Garden."

Oakley also addressed Lee’s altercation with ESPN’s Golic and Wingo on Wednesday, saying Knicks owner James Dolan is the consistent problem.

"What is this man’s problem about control? He’s so much a control freak. And he’s hurting the whole NBA," Oakley said. "If I’m an owner in the NBA, this guy headlines every other month, every other week, with something that don’t have nothing to do with winning. It’s got to do with individuals, people’s life. We shouldn’t be going through this."

The Knicks are 19-42 and headed toward their seventh straight season out of the playoffs.

"I ain’t ever seen a team lose make this much news," Oakley told the AP. "Maybe the Dallas Cowboys ."