Happy Birthday to Basketball Great, Walt "Clyde" Frazier
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
With his cool rhymes and even cooler clothes, Basketball Hall of Famer Walt "Clyde" Frazier made a successful transition from NBA star to sports broadcaster on the MSG Network. Frazier sat down with Brooke back in 2012 for a live event to discuss basketball, broadcasting, and the art of being cool. We're re-airing it now because a) it was Mr. Frazier's birthday this week! and b) we're in a sporting mood — we have a big piece in the hopper for this week's show all about sports betting, reported by OTM producer Rebecca Clark-Callender.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the On the Media Midweek podcast. I'm Becca Clark calendar one of O.T. M. producers. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm working this week on a big piece for the show that is time to coincide with the grand |
| 0:11.8 | finale of March Madness. |
| 0:14.7 | It's about the wild, wild world of sports gambling. |
| 0:18.7 | And when I was looking around to see what else the show |
| 0:21.0 | has done on basketball, The answer was not much. But I did find this |
| 0:26.1 | amazing piece in the archive that we haven't played for a while. It's an interview that Brooke did in the |
| 0:30.9 | WNY live event space back in 2012 with Nick's legend |
| 0:35.8 | Walt Frazier. Here's Brooke. His first act brought down the house or at least |
| 0:42.1 | Madison Square Garden in 1970. I wasn't a sports |
| 0:46.1 | fan but his speed is cool his name was in the ether Walt Clyde Frazier New York |
| 0:52.2 | New York, Nick. |
| 0:53.0 | Frazier cuts to his left, now stops and jumps. |
| 0:56.0 | Frazier out of the back door. |
| 0:58.0 | And one looking big west across the big front, |
| 1:01.0 | and looser. |
| 1:02.0 | With his mutton chops and his fedora, he rolled on fancy wheels through New York City, |
| 1:07.0 | an icon of Laconic Cool. |
| 1:09.0 | In that historic 1970 championship game, Nick's team captain Willis Reed, playing with a terrible injury, was the hero, but Frazier's lethal steals and stealthy buckets clinched the win. |
| 1:22.0 | Willis provided the inspiration, |
| 1:24.5 | and you know in a way I provided the devastation. |
| 1:27.8 | Frazier's little rhyme there foreshadows his second act, |
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