MSG Networks unveils grandiose plans to celebrate Clyde Frazier’s 80th birthday

Basketball legend and Knicks icon Walt “Clyde” Frazier turns 80 this weekend and MSG Networks is launching weeklong commemorative coverage.

The network announced a full slate of festivities beginning on Wednesday to celebrate the Hall of Famer’s big day. 

The final installment of “Clyde’s Top 15 Moments,” in which the No. 1 moment of Frazier’s Knicks career will be revealed, airs Wednesday during MSG Networks’ in-game coverage of the Knicks-Clippers game that tips off at 7:30 p.m.

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On Friday, the network will launch “80 Years of Clyde,” which will commemorate all of the network’s Frazier programming. It will be available on the Gotham Sports App.

On Sunday, the day after Frazier’s 80th birthday, the outlet will run a marathon celebration and broadcast a special called “Clyde Takeover Day.”

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Frazier is about as legendary as it gets for the Knicks. He spent 10 seasons playing for the franchise and led New York to its only NBA Championships in 1970 and 1973. Frazier was a seven-time All Star, seven-time All-Defensive Team member and made an All-NBA team six times.

He then took his talents on the air, as he began a broadcasting career at MSG Networks in 1987. He first began doing radio and then began appearing on television. Today, he serves as the network’s Knicks television analyst alongside fellow all-time great announcer Mike Breen.

Frazier is the only person to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a broadcaster.

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The network’s Frazier takeover on Sunday will truly live up to its name, as MSG Networks will broadcast Frazier-focused programming the entire day. 

Things will begin at 10 a.m. with “Beginnings: Clyde Frazier” and will lead all the way into the Knicks pregame show that will begin at 5:30 p.m. ahead of their home game against the Trailblazers.

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The Knicks pre-game show will feature a collection of special birthday message vignettes by celebrity fans, former teammates, current colleagues, players and Frazier’s family.

There will also be a live birthday tribute prior to tipoff of the game — giving fans in attendance at Madison Square Garden a chance to show their support for the legend.