The last time the Sixers and Knicks faced off in the postseason — 35 years ago, believe it or not — there was a sweep, a broom and good ol’-fashioned animosity.

“F–k Charles Barkley,” Oakley told Sports+. “He talks too f—king much anyway.”

Oakley isn’t kidding. This isn’t like Josh Hart ribbing one of his teammates and jumping on a podcast with him an hour later.

Oakley has hated Barkley for a long time (just read his book with Frank Isola, “The Last Enforcer”).

“Oak tells me, ‘Get the broom,’” says Gerald Brown, a Knicks ballboy at the time. “I was like, ‘Nahhh.’”{ai:summary}<p>The rivalry between the Sixers and Knicks reignites with old-school hostility as Oakley takes aim at Barkley. #sports</p>

Recalling the bitter, sweeping history of the last Knicks-Sixers playoff clash: ‘Get the broom’

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