Best Season as a Knick: 1969-70, 24-years-old. NBA Champion, All-Star starter, All-NBA first team, All-Defense first team, 4th place in MVP vote, 20.9 points (57.5 TS%, good for fifth in the league), 8.2 assists (second in total assists league wide), 0.236 win shares per 48 minutes (first in the league), steals per game went unrecorded but Frazier finished the year second in the league in defensive win shares.  

At the risk of gross hyperbole, is it now safe to declare Walt “Clyde” Frazier a living legend? The language, the wardrobe, the flair, the style, the defensive dominance, the championships, the altogether cool. The inspired camaraderie. The reason Walt Frazier is number one over Patrick Ewing, despite Ewing being the player people most associate with the franchise, is the fact that he embodies the New York Knicks. He is the franchise. (His 36 point, 19 assist Game 7 performance in the 1970 NBA Finals notwithstanding.) Today, he still cares; he bleeds Orange and Blue. He lives to be apart of the team and he’ll surely be here until the day he’s buried in a white fur coat. 

The Knicks victory against the Wizards last night left us giddy as Maria Von Trapp. Before the Nazis came.

Tonight’s win against the Wizards has inexplicably made new official Buckets writer Stan Chin break out into song… be warned though his singing voice has been compared to that of William Hung… and has been found wanting…

Take it away, Stan:

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The Knicks' gave the Garden Faithful something to cheer about as they left their final home game. (Source: Yardbarker.com)

Last night, the final home game of the season, the Knicks gave the crowd something to cheer for on Fan Appreciation Night.  Losing wouldn’t help our lottery chances, winning wouldn’t help our playoff chances.  We were going up against an equally sucky team in the Washington Wizards, a team without even an exciting superstar.  And yet if you listened to the amazing crowd at Madison Square Garden last night, you’d've thought it was Game 7 of the Finals.

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