Oakley says Porzingis was wrong to skip exit interview

Charles Oakley hasn't had much reason to side with the New York Knicks recently, but the franchise legend thinks Kristaps Porzingis was wrong to skip his exit interview with team president Phil Jackson.

"He's wrong for that. You can't do that," Oakley told the New York Daily News' Stefan Bondy. "Not being two years in the league ... and you won 32 games and 31 games. I mean, you don't do that. Especially when you're in town (at the same time the meeting was supposed to take place). You don't do that. That's wrong."

Porzingis bailed on the April exit interview following a disappointing 31-51 Knicks finish - something that miffed Jackson enough that he referred to it in his strange public admission this week that the 21-year-old Latvian had been on the trade block.

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"(Porzingis) should tell (Jackson) himself. That's why you got a mouth," Oakley continued, adding that Porzingis and other Knicks should at least be open to Jackson's venerable triangle offense. "Learn the triangle and if doesn't work, the coach gets fired or the president and the GM gets fired. Just try. You gotta try."

Oakley's own feud with Knicks owner James Dolan - including when he was arrested at a game in February - was another lowlight of the team's season, something he made light of.

"I don't know why you're talking to me," Oakley told Bondy. "The last game I went to, I couldn't even watch."

The 53-year-old Oakley is a player/coach with BIG3 squad, Killer 3s, which opens up the fledgling league's schedule Sunday in New York.