> Azotam informed the Knicks of an offer to work for the Raptors in July, at which time he began **“secretly forwarding proprietary information from his Knicks email account to his personal Gmail account, which he then shared with the Raptors Defendants. These materials included scouting reports, play frequency reports, a prep book, and a link to third-party licensed software,”** the lawsuit reads.
Bro, come on.
OGnotAnunoby
Lmao we are cooked
LostPants7
GDTs bout to be salty against both teams ESPECIALLY if we lose a pick or two 🤣
>[[Ian Begley] Knicks suit alleges that former employee Ikechukwu Azotam ‘illegally procured’ and disclosed the proprietary info and shared it with members of the Raptors, including head coach Darko Rajaković and player development coach Noah Lewis. Azotam was hired by TOR earlier in offseason](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693709641253806178?s=46)
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>[[Ian Begley] Statement from MSG Sports spokesperson on NYK lawsuit against Raptors: “The New York Knicks have sued the Toronto Raptors and several members of their organization, including a former Knicks employee, after the former employee illegally took thousands of proprietary files.”](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693711032701633021?s=46)
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>[[Ian Begley] Statement from MSG Sports spokesperson on NYK lawsuit vs. Raptors continued: “…with him to his new position with the Toronto Raptors. These files include confidential information such as play frequency reports, a prep book for the 2022-23 season, video scouting files.”](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693712087812309340?s=46)
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>[[Ian Begley] Statement from MSG Sports spokesperson on NYK lawsuit vs. Raptors continued: “…and materials and more. Given the clear violation of our employment agreement, criminal and civil law, we were left no choice but to take this action.”](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693712352036720888?s=46)
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>[[Ian Begley] Source said Knicks contacted Raptors and NBA before filing the suit against Toronto. Suit alleges that Azotam signed agreement as NYK employee with a ‘confidentiality clause requiring him to maintain the secrecy of all confidential or proprietary Knicks information.’](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693713412994310203?s=46)
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>[[Ian Begley] In addition to violating the employee agreement suit says TOR defendants ‘directed Azotam to misuse his access to the Knicks’ subscription to Synergy Sports to create and then transfer to the Raptors Defendants over 3,000 files consisting of film information and data.’](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693713945838682499?s=46)
The employee being dumb is prob easy for the raps but that last tweet is pretty damning. If true we def lose picks
Uglyboi_85
This isn’t a good look for Toronto..
Cheechers23
Our FO is so faded we’re trying to steal secrets from the Knicks of all teams
SpicyP43905
I don’t like the Knicks anymore.
Annual_Sprinkles1129
Why steal from the knicks of all teams?
YourDrunkUncl_
N0minal
I wonder how often this really goes on part of me feels like it’s pretty common occurrence everyone steals from everyone else. It’s just this time the Knicks weren’t cool with it.
It just makes everything 10 times more hilarious the fact that it’s the fucking Knicks
Edit*
After reading the entire story he told them he was leaving in July and then a little over a month later they file a lawsuit. I think the only way they could have found out anything was checking his sent emails. Which I can’t imagine is SOP for everytime someone leaves. It seems like they thought he was up to something shady and checked immediately after he left.
iblastoff
why would the raptors organization give any shits about proprietary knicks information anyway lol.
“how do we become a team thats only made the playoffs twice in over a decade?”
gamblewizard98
If the raptors lose a 1st because of this, I could see ownership wanting to move on from the FO, or at least let go a major piece of it (e.g. firing Bobby or masai, whichever one they attribute all the recent mistakes to).
It’s pretty clear the FO has lost all the goodwill from 2019, and is being judged solely on their current performance. This mishap, plus the obvious mistakes over the last two trade deadlines could be enough for the board to move on.
Citylights58
Why are we hiring snakes smh.
peroper7
Yeah, this won’t last long under scrutiny
Employee might be out of a job though
drewtheblueduck
Man if we lose a draft pick for this, we are fucked lol
Friendly-Target8815
The season hasn’t even started. Not sure how we could have used it to benefit the team already.
Johnny-5013
Ylissian
This is embarrassing for the organization. Really bad look. Why do they need to steal data from another team? And of all teams, the Knicks? Really?
kyoshirocks
??????
thenewoldschool55
When did Masai turn into Bill Belichick?
amydancepants
Ruh roh
SiakamClears
corh13
Bye bye picks. LMAO this franchise is cooked for the next 5 years.
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> Azotam informed the Knicks of an offer to work for the Raptors in July, at which time he began **“secretly forwarding proprietary information from his Knicks email account to his personal Gmail account, which he then shared with the Raptors Defendants. These materials included scouting reports, play frequency reports, a prep book, and a link to third-party licensed software,”** the lawsuit reads.
Bro, come on.
Lmao we are cooked
GDTs bout to be salty against both teams ESPECIALLY if we lose a pick or two 🤣
Edit more info from the direct tweets in the r/nba [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/15xhkqf/ian_begley_in_lawsuit_filed_today_and_obtained_by/) by the OP
>[[Ian Begley] Knicks suit alleges that former employee Ikechukwu Azotam ‘illegally procured’ and disclosed the proprietary info and shared it with members of the Raptors, including head coach Darko Rajaković and player development coach Noah Lewis. Azotam was hired by TOR earlier in offseason](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693709641253806178?s=46)
>
>[[Ian Begley] Statement from MSG Sports spokesperson on NYK lawsuit against Raptors: “The New York Knicks have sued the Toronto Raptors and several members of their organization, including a former Knicks employee, after the former employee illegally took thousands of proprietary files.”](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693711032701633021?s=46)
>
>[[Ian Begley] Statement from MSG Sports spokesperson on NYK lawsuit vs. Raptors continued: “…with him to his new position with the Toronto Raptors. These files include confidential information such as play frequency reports, a prep book for the 2022-23 season, video scouting files.”](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693712087812309340?s=46)
>
>[[Ian Begley] Statement from MSG Sports spokesperson on NYK lawsuit vs. Raptors continued: “…and materials and more. Given the clear violation of our employment agreement, criminal and civil law, we were left no choice but to take this action.”](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693712352036720888?s=46)
>
>[[Ian Begley] Source said Knicks contacted Raptors and NBA before filing the suit against Toronto. Suit alleges that Azotam signed agreement as NYK employee with a ‘confidentiality clause requiring him to maintain the secrecy of all confidential or proprietary Knicks information.’](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693713412994310203?s=46)
>
>[[Ian Begley] In addition to violating the employee agreement suit says TOR defendants ‘directed Azotam to misuse his access to the Knicks’ subscription to Synergy Sports to create and then transfer to the Raptors Defendants over 3,000 files consisting of film information and data.’](https://x.com/ianbegley/status/1693713945838682499?s=46)
The employee being dumb is prob easy for the raps but that last tweet is pretty damning. If true we def lose picks
This isn’t a good look for Toronto..
Our FO is so faded we’re trying to steal secrets from the Knicks of all teams
I don’t like the Knicks anymore.
Why steal from the knicks of all teams?
I wonder how often this really goes on part of me feels like it’s pretty common occurrence everyone steals from everyone else. It’s just this time the Knicks weren’t cool with it.
It just makes everything 10 times more hilarious the fact that it’s the fucking Knicks
Edit*
After reading the entire story he told them he was leaving in July and then a little over a month later they file a lawsuit. I think the only way they could have found out anything was checking his sent emails. Which I can’t imagine is SOP for everytime someone leaves. It seems like they thought he was up to something shady and checked immediately after he left.
why would the raptors organization give any shits about proprietary knicks information anyway lol.
“how do we become a team thats only made the playoffs twice in over a decade?”
If the raptors lose a 1st because of this, I could see ownership wanting to move on from the FO, or at least let go a major piece of it (e.g. firing Bobby or masai, whichever one they attribute all the recent mistakes to).
It’s pretty clear the FO has lost all the goodwill from 2019, and is being judged solely on their current performance. This mishap, plus the obvious mistakes over the last two trade deadlines could be enough for the board to move on.
Why are we hiring snakes smh.
Yeah, this won’t last long under scrutiny
Employee might be out of a job though
Man if we lose a draft pick for this, we are fucked lol
The season hasn’t even started. Not sure how we could have used it to benefit the team already.
This is embarrassing for the organization. Really bad look. Why do they need to steal data from another team? And of all teams, the Knicks? Really?
??????
When did Masai turn into Bill Belichick?
Ruh roh
Bye bye picks. LMAO this franchise is cooked for the next 5 years.
Such a crazy story here.