A basketball fan was ejected from a Knicks game because his law firm was representing someone suing Madison Square Garden
On November 5, 28-year-old Long Island attorney Alexis Majano went with a friend to watch the New York Knicks face off against the Boston Celtics, only to be stopped by security guards at the venue’s escalators. Majano, whose law firm Sahn Ward Braff Koblenz had a pending legal case against MSG, told The New York Post a man in a suit told him the manager wanted to speak with him. Security had reportedly blocked off a nearby exit.
Majano claims he spoke with an employee who showed him a list of 20 to 30 pages of names, all of which were allegedly on the venue’s list of people banned from entering. The same employee told the fan he had been identified using the venue’s facial recognition system. Majano claims he never showed the venue his ID when entering and the tickets were in his friend’s name, which means it would have been almost impossible for the venue to locate him without facial recognition.
“I was upset—we had a whole night planned out that got botched,” Majano told The Post. “I said, ‘This is ridiculous.’”
