{"id":456031,"date":"2023-08-22T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456031"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:16:01","slug":"knicks-sue-ex-employee-share-he-sent-info-to-raptors","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/knicks-sue-ex-employee-share-he-sent-info-to-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks sue ex-employee, share he sent info to Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Knicks on Monday sued the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, members of the Canadian NBA franchise, and an ex-worker whom they alleged &#8220;illegally procured and then disclosed proprietary information&#8221; to their competitor.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA franchise from the Big Apple state that Ikechukwu Azotam, who worked for them from 2020 to 2023, sent Toronto thousands of confidential files &#8212; including play frequency reports, a prep book for the past campaign, video scouting materials, competitors&#8217; research, and more \u2013 after the Canadian team began recruiting him to join their franchise this summer.<\/p>\n<p>New York accused Azotam of violating a confidentiality clause in the working agreement and alleged that members of Toronto told their employees what to do or knowingly benefited from his unlawful actions.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto manager Darko Rajakovi\u0107, player development manager Noah Lewis and 10 &#8220;unknown&#8221; workers were also listed as defendants in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Full Knicks lawsuit vs. Raptors (1\/2):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK KNICKS, LLC, Plaintiff,<\/p>\n<p>V.<\/p>\n<p>MAPLE LEAF SPORTS &amp; ENTERTAINMENT LTD. d\/b\/a TORONTO RAPTORS, DARKO RAJAKOVI\u0106, NOAH LEWIS, IKECHUKWU AZOTAM, and JOHN DOES 1-10, Defendants\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZLI5fcG9mY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZLI5fcG9mY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA_NewYork\/status\/1693812234571432172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Knicks on Monday sued the Toronto Raptors, members of the Canadian NBA franchise, and an ex-worker whom they alleged &#8220;illegally procured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456032,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17172,17079],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[21051,18191,18089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"New York Knicks are in a legal battle with another franchise.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456031"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456031"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}