We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance — and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think
4/17/202656 min
Tracking players. Monitoring kids. Allegedly watching a fan enter the bathroom. The panopticon of notorious owner James Dolan has been caught in glimpses. But a WIRED investigation — revealed in collaboration with PTFO — lifts the veil on the Orwellian scope (and occasional clown show) of MSG security, from The Garden and The Sphere to the streets of New York and out across America. Correspondent Noah Shachtman and Pablo hear from spooked insiders, read snooping group chats, scour a second-by-second confidential report, plus view the facial-recognition database itself — only to discover that paranoid billionaires... are all around us.
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First 90 secondsPablo Torre· Host0:00
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're gonna find out what this sound is.
James Dolan· Soundbite0:06
When I walked into the, into the studio, right, did you recognize my face?
Charles Oakley· Soundbite0:10
I did.
James Dolan· Soundbite0:10
Facial recognition.
Pablo Torre· Host0:11
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Noah Shachtman· Guest1:04
[upbeat music] [upbeat music] So what are we doing? We're talking about the playoffs?
Pablo Torre· Host1:15
[laughs] We're talking about how every time I walk around our city, both of us are from Manhattan, born and raised, people yell at me, "Don't go after Jalen Brunson."
Noah Shachtman· Guest1:28
Yeah, absolutely not.
Pablo Torre· Host1:29
"Leave the