A basketball guru is taking Allan Houston to the hole, suing the former Knicks great for sabotaging his chances of working with NBA.

In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Art Rondeau says Houston, now a Knicks exec, has repeatedly denied him “the due credit and recognition for [the] highly successful peak performance coaching” he provided him with in 1999 and 2000, and blocked him from getting a job with the team’s coaching staff.

The suit also charges Houston with slander for allegedly telling an unidientified sportswriter that Rondeau had been “trying to blackmail” him.

A rep for the Knicks said that “the lawsuit is completely without merit we will have no futher comment.”

Rondeau, who’s developed a coaching program based on a player’s “mental zone,” had been successfully working with Chris Dudley on improving his free-throw shooting in 1999 when he met Houston and offered to help him break out of a shooting slump, the suit says. All Rondeau said he asked for in return was public acknowledgement.

Houston’s game quickly improved, and he and Rondeau worked together numerous times until February of 2000, when “Houston ceased having sessions with Rondeau, without explanation,” the suit says.

In the years since, he’s made several negative comments about Rondeau to numerous reporters, the suit says, and apparently blocked him from getting a job with the Knicks in 2009. He’s seeking over $2.5 million in damages from the team and Houston.