The NBA finally has set a date to resolve the legal dispute between the Knicks and the Raptors, but that won’t be until the summer of 2025.
A hearing has been set for late July, a league source told The Post’s Stefan Bondy.
That is 13 months after the courts handed off the case to the NBA for arbitration and nearly two years since the original lawsuit was filed in August 2023, accusing former Knicks employee 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 spokesperson said in a statement. “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.”
