Spike Lee, a man who estimated he’s spent $10 million on the New York Knicks throughout his life, is very serious about basketball. So much so that he’s willing to give up an Academy Award ...

Two-time Academy Award winner Spike Lee is a prominent New York Knicks supporter and regular courtside attendee at Madison Square Garden, and during the Eastern Conference finals, he named a high ...

“I would give up an Academy Award, Oscar, for the Knicks to win a championship,” Lee, 68, told Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson, analysts Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley ...

"With these awards, it's like basketball, where the ref blows a call and you have to make a call. So the make a call I think was ‘Training Day,' which he won an Oscar for," Lee said. "But we don ...

However, Lee added that he doesn’t measure his success with awards. “With these awards, it’s like basketball, where the ref blows a call and you have to make a call.

“I would give up an Academy Award, Oscar, for the Knicks to win a championship,” Lee, 68, told Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson, analysts Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley ...

The most recent championship came well before Lee embarked on his storied filmmaking career. "I would give up an Academy Award, Oscar, for the Knicks to win a championship," Lee said on "Inside ...