The Knicks tried to settle their Spike Lee feud with a brash statement. He wasn't having it.

The New York Knicks have lost their last fan, and unfortunately, he's their most famous one too.

Filmmaker and director Spike Lee insisted that at Monday's game against the Houston Rockets, security tried to kick him out of the arena after he entered through the employee entrance. The Knicks tried to insist Lee was in the wrong with a bold statement on Tuesday, but Lee rang up The New York Times' Sopan Deb to counter their interpretation once again.

As Lee explained earlier Tuesday to ESPN, he had no problem getting his ticket scanned at the entrance he'd been using for more than 20 years. But security guards confronted him multiple times once he was inside and told him to leave and come back in another way, Lee said. He eventually made it to his usual courtside seat.

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"The idea that Spike Lee is a victim because we have repeatedly asked him not to use our employee entrance is laughable," the Knicks responded in a Tuesday statement, saying Lee and Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan had agreed Lee wouldn't use that entrance anymore "when they shook hands."

But Lee quickly fired back, saying "on my mother's grave," he'd never been told to come in another entrance before, and that he and Dolan hadn't agreed on anything. "What's laughable is how the Knicks are the laughingstock of the league in sports," Lee very truthfully said, and then doubled down on his pledge to skip the games for the rest of the year.