Basketball legend and Knicks icon Walt “Clyde” Frazier turns 80 this weekend and MSG Networks is launching weeklong commemorative protection.
The community introduced a full slate of festivities starting on Wednesday to have fun the Corridor of Famer’s huge day.
The ultimate installment of “Clyde’s High 15 Moments,” during which the No. 1 second of Frazier’s Knicks profession might be revealed, airs Wednesday throughout MSG Networks’ in-game protection of the Knicks-Clippers recreation that suggestions off at 7:30 p.m.
On Friday, the community will launch “80 Years of Clyde,” which is able to commemorate all the community’s Frazier programming. It will likely be obtainable on the Gotham Sports activities App.
On Sunday, the day after Frazier’s eightieth birthday, the outlet will run a marathon celebration and broadcast a particular known as “Clyde Takeover Day.”
Frazier is about as legendary because it will get for the Knicks. He spent 10 seasons enjoying for the franchise and led New York to its solely NBA Championships in 1970 and 1973. Frazier was a seven-time All Star, seven-time All-Defensive Group member and made an All-NBA workforce six instances.
He then took his abilities on the air, as he started a broadcasting profession at MSG Networks in 1987. He first started doing radio after which started showing on tv. Immediately, he serves because the community’s Knicks tv analyst alongside fellow all-time nice announcer Mike Breen.
Frazier is the one individual to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame as each a participant and a broadcaster.
The community’s Frazier takeover on Sunday will actually dwell as much as its identify, as MSG Networks will broadcast Frazier-focused programming your complete day.
Issues will start at 10 a.m. with “Beginnings: Clyde Frazier” and can lead all the way in which into the Knicks pregame present that may start at 5:30 p.m. forward of their residence recreation towards the Trailblazers.
The Knicks pre-game present will characteristic a group of particular birthday message vignettes by superstar followers, former teammates, present colleagues, gamers and Frazier’s household.
There may also be a dwell birthday tribute previous to tipoff of the sport — giving followers in attendance at Madison Sq. Backyard an opportunity to point out their assist for the legend.
