Clyde’s Closeup
Clyde So Fly: Top-10 Outfits
Clyde has been a fashion icon and the coolest man in New York City for over 40 years now. As a life-long Knicks fan, I’ve been admiring Clyde’s style for as long as I can remember. In January of 2011, Clyde changed the suit game forever with his now iconic cow suit. This suit is […]
George Kalinsky’s 5 Favorite Clyde Photos
George Kalinsky has been the official photographer of the Madison Square Garden since 1966. He has photographed people from all walks of life: The pope, rock stars, politicians, and of course, athletes. In Kalinsky’s early years at The Garden, he had the privilege of shooting the 1970 NBA Finals – a series in which New […]
Remembering Walt Clyde Frazier’s ‘The Game’
On a Sunday night at Staples Center, just over four years ago, as I made my way through a conversation between Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson – and beyond the flirtatious smile of Lindsay Lohan – I caught the urge to do something I almost never do: Take a photo of a celebrity. But this […]
Restoring Its Former Glory: Part I
It’s 2:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in early March and Maurice Schechter is at a loss. A video engineer with nearly four decades of experience, Schechter has tried nearly every trick in his arsenal to salvage a piece of NBA history, specifically, Game 5 of the 1973 NBA Finals. It was the second and […]
Knicks 1973 Championship: The Ultimate Team
“It was the ultimate team,” said Jerry Lucas, center for the 1973 NBA champion Knicks. “I knew I was with a group of men that maybe was the most unique group of basketball players ever assembled. “We had some warriors on that team,” remembered Willis Reed, the team’s starting center and finals MVP. “We had […]
Knicks 1973 Championship: Perfecting the Perfect Team
After winning it all in 1970, Holzman’s team reached the Eastern Conference Finals in the 1970-71 season, but lost to the Baltimore Bullets. The following season, in which they returned to the finals (but lost to the Lakers), the Knicks added two vital components that would return them to glory. “There were a number of […]