A Manhattan man claims he joined an adult basketball league at PS 6 for the love of the game — but got a beating instead.
Craig Linden, 52, is now suing real-estate agent Matthew Goldberg in Manhattan Supreme Court for playing hoops with “excessive animosity” and assaulting him during an NYC Basketball League game at the Upper East Side school.
Linden “did not assume the risk of violence when joining the basketball league,” he says in the lawsuit filed last week.
Goldberg, 28, had “a pattern and practice of excessive physical and violent confrontations with members of the basketball league,” and Linden in particular, he charges.
Things came to a head in October when the hotheaded hoopster “intentionally hit” Linden, going “beyond the accepted and reasonable parameters of contact,” according to the lawsuit.
Goldberg declined to comment.
Linden is seeking unspecified damages.