Hello, Spike! Hello, Brooklyn? Lee slams Dolan, praises Barclays Center

Page Six Spike Lee, as he will tell you, was at Madison Square Garden that night in 1970 when the Knicks, behind Walt Frazier and Willis Reed, brought New York its first NBA championship. He was 13.

Now, that 50-year relationship is in tatters. In an interview with ESPN’s First Take earlier Thursday, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director —and Brooklyn native— was asked whether James Dolan’s reluctance to support Black Lives Matter had made it difficult for him to continue to root for the Knicks.

Lee didn’t mince words...

It didn’t end there. Lee volunteered he was sitting in his home, not far from Barclays Center, home of the Nets ... and scene of some of New York’s most vocal protests…