Post any story about the last real mohegan (goon) in the NBA.Oak is the Suge Knight of the NBA. In the NBA or in lockdown, people donגt get any harder than Charles Oakley. Ask Tyrone Hill, Charles Barkley, or Jeff McInnis. When Oak was with the Raptors, they had a preseason exhibition game against Hillגs Sixers. Before the game even tipped, Oakley found Hill and slapped him in the mouth, they started scuffling, and they were both ejected. Before a regular season game, Hill was leaving the floor after a shootaround, and Oak started tossing basketballs at him, one of them hitting Hill in the face. גEvery time we play each other Oakley says something about Hill,ג Philadelphiaגs Eric Snow said. גHeגll say גWhereגs Hill at?גג Why was he looking for Tyrone Hill? Apparently, Hill owed $54,000 to Oakley from a dice game. Hill didnגt pay quickly enough. גEverything in life is double. If he didnגt pay me $108,000, he didnגt pay me.ג Hill later reportedly did pay all $108,000, probably a wise move.
Not even Charles Barkley was too bad for Oak to mess with. According to Peter Vescey of the New York Post, Oak slapped Barkley at a union meeting during the lockout and told him, גEvery time I see you, Iגm going to slap you.ג In a later game, Oakley threw Barkey to the floor just three minutes into the first quarter, and Charles got up swinging. After the game, Clyde Drexler, a teammate of Barkleyגs at the time, called Oakley a dirty player. Told of Drexlerגs comment, Oak said, גHe can blow me.ג
Jeff McInnis was another to earn the wrath of Charles Oakley, apparently over a woman. Supposedly, McInnis was after a girl that Oakley was dating in Charlotte. Oak called her one night, and McInnis was there. I donגt imagine that was a pleasant moment for Jeff McInnis. Oak went looking for him that night, but didnגt find him. So the next time Oakגs team, the Raptors at the time, played McInnisגs Clippers, Oak found McInnis sitting on the bench and clocked him in the head. After the incident, Oak blamed Clippersג coach Alvin Gentry for telling the league about it, and reportedly went after Coach Gentry.
