#clyde frazier

[yankeeblue]

Walt "Clyde" Frazier in Long Beach, CA. The day before the Knicks beat the Lakers in the 1973 NBA Finals. Photographed by Walter Iooss Jr.

[nosimpincurly]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[gregorygalloway]

Walt Frazier (born 29 March 1945)

[nbamayne]

[chlostertalks]

Last Friday marked 50 years since the New York Knicks won their first NBA Finals.

“Game 7” are the best two words in sports, and for Knicks fans, seeing their heroes play Wilt Chamberlain and the Lakers in Madison Square Garden took the Mecca to new pro heights. It also is an underrated addition to the East Coast/West Coast rivalry.

The Knicks and Lakers rosters featured the Logo, a Hall of Fame coach, the Stilt, a Senator, and a butcher (DeBusschere lol).

Willis Reed came back from injury to play a career game in the series clincher.

Watch the final game here.

[allnightdiscoparty]

[nurseyxbitty]

headcanon: Nursey’s rich aunt

she takes him to the opera, her darling nephew Derek, and she takes him to high-society art museum charity events as her plus-one. Imagine a ten year old Derek M. Nurse in fresh-pressed suits tailored to his height, imagine the tiny flower on his lapel. Admiring his own young, promise-filled reflection in gold-marbled bathrooms’ mirrors. Imagine him loving the gentlemanly-etiquette books she sends him on his birthday. Imagine him dancing with his fingers up his nose at the wedding of someone related to Clyde Frazier, formerly of the Knicks, petals scattered across fresh grass and laughter in the air. Imagine the rich aunt who gave him the gift of not needing to be ‘chill’.

You’re good enough for anyone’s world and good again, Derek. It’s the world that needs to be good enough for you.