{"id":697706,"date":"2026-04-04T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:44:16","slug":"walt-clyde-frazier-makes-wild-iran-bulls-comment-to-open-knicks-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697706\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt &#8216;Clyde&#8217; Frazier makes wild Iran, Bulls comment to open Knicks broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime New York Knicks color commentator Walt \u201cClyde\u201d Frazier left MSG play-by-play announcer Mike Breen in disbelief with a comment that he made to open Friday night\u2019s game vs. the Chicago Bulls at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike, I was talking to my friends, man,\u201d Frazier said as the Bulls-Knicks game tipped off. \u201cAnd I was talking about eradicated, obliterated, devastated. They thought I was talking about Iran. But I was talking about the Bulls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Walt \u201cClyde\u201d Frazier: \u201cMike, I was talking to my friends, man. And I was talking about eradicated, obliterated, devastated. They thought I was talking about Iran. But I was talking about the Bulls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Breen: \u201cThat\u2019s how you start a telecast?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8zBSxp0Z0k\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8zBSxp0Z0k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/2040220354401239361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>Breen laughed while surely being caught very off guard by what\u2019s one of the most unexpected comments you\u2019ll ever hear on a sports broadcast. Especially to start one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn their last game to the [Indiana Pacers], folks, they gave up 145,\u201d Frazier continued. \u201cAgainst the [Philadelphia 76ers], they gave 157 points. So, these guys have been on a five-game losing streak, almost giving up 135 points a game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how you start a telecast?!\u201d Breen said, understandably still shocked.<\/p>\n<p>There are a million other ways to make the point Frazier was trying to make, but the \u201ceradicated, obliterated, devastated\u201d and \u201cgiving up 135 points a game\u201d trends continued for the Bulls on Friday night. The Knicks, led by a game-high 31 points from OG Anunoby, came away with a 136-96 blowout victory over the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime New York Knicks color commentator Walt \u201cClyde\u201d Frazier left MSG play-by-play announcer Mike Breen in disbelief with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,329,25298,304,2114,12655,6,1136,191,3810,3806,15673,2539],"class_list":{"0":"post-697706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-mike-breen","13":"tag-msg","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-walt-clyde-frazier","20":"tag-walt-frazier"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116346504429602922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}