Six months after a mind-boggling altercation at Madison Square Garden led to charges against the former Knicks star Charles Oakley, the case was essentially dismissed Friday.

While Oakley had previously promised to fight the charges all the way through the legal process, he accepted a dismissal at Manhattan Criminal Court that comes with certain conditions. He also maintained that the resolution of the case proved he had been in the right all along.

“Happy, sad, I don’t know — it’s life,” Oakley said to reporters. “But like I said from Day 1, I wasn’t wrong.”

Oakley, 53, was removed from the Garden during a game on Feb. 8 after being surrounded by security personnel at his courtside seat. What instigated the incident remains murky. Oakley professed that he had done nothing wrong, while the Garden said he was “shouting and cursing,” apparently in the direction of the Knicks’ owner, James L. Dolan.