Clyde Frazier's styling and profiling

Walt "Clyde" Frazier/ Scott Mecum - flickr

Walt “Clyde” Frazier is one of the most recognizable figures in the history of the New York Knicks. He played with them for 10 years, helping them to win their only two championships, and stills continues bounding and astounding his fans. Although he is very well known for his playing career, his achievements after his retirement are just as recognizable. 

Frazier's time playing is nothing to be overlooked. He was born in Atlanta on March 1945, went to Southern Illinois University in 1964 and was the fifth draft pick in the ‘67 NBA Draft. His effervescent playing helped the Knicks win a championship in 1970, and then again in ‘73. Clyde’s swishing and dishing skills were like no other. After his voyage with the Cleveland Cavaliers, he retired three games into '79-'80 season. Only a few months later in December 1979, the Knicks retired his number ten and it is hanging for the rafters in Madison Square Garden every night. 

Clyde was Frazier's nickname, and it was given by a Knicks trainer when Frazier wore a Borsalino hat made of brown velour which resembled the hat Clyde Barrow wore in the movie Bonnie and Clyde. The nickname has stuck with him ever since.

Frazier also designed his own style of shoe for Puma. 

“The Puma Clyde. They came out with a suede shoe. The

The Puma Clyde/ Stephen Michael Barnett - flickr

other shoes were canvas [and] blue suede with a white stripe. Even before that, when I wore my Converse, I had one orange string and one blue string in the sneakers. Nobody else was doing that.” Frazier said in a 2013 interview with GQ magazine.

Frazier is very well known for his announcing. He is currently an announcer for the Knicks on the MSG network. Much like Craig Sager, another NBA announcer who wears bright outfits, Frazier is recognized for wearing amazing, expensive and fashionable suits. Style and fashion is a big part of being an announcer to Frazier. He has every style of suit from cow print to bright green and beyond. 

“I like unusual combinations,” Frazier said in a 2011 interview with the New York Times “I have to entertain myself. I like combinations that people wouldn’t think would go normally together.” 

Frazier is also known for his outstanding vocabulary while commentating games. He has a prodigious vocabulary and is known for using words that seem as if they would be on the SAT. “Hustling and Bustling,” “Posting and Toasting,” and “Wheeling and Dealing” are a few of his many used rhymes.

Not only is he a figure for Just for Men hair products, he also has his own restaurant. Clyde Frazier’s Wine and Dine is located in Manhattan. It is a fancy bar / restaurant that actually has a mini basketball court inside! New Yorkers love going there especially when Frazier makes a guest appearance. 

Frazier is known as much for his career off the court, as well as on. It is incredible how he was able to style and profile his way from a town in Atlanta with eight siblings all the way to the NBA and above. He was dressed in a white pullover and sweatpants going into his first game announcing for the Knicks and his style has changed much since then. Two rings and several suits later, he is still grooving his way around the NBA and New York.