{"id":698210,"date":"2026-04-04T18:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698210\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:14:18","slug":"knicks-broadcasters-joke-comparing-bulls-obliterated-defense-to-iran-leaves-partner-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698210\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks broadcaster\u2019s joke comparing Bulls\u2019 \u2018obliterated\u2019 defense to Iran leaves partner stunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nba\/chicago-bulls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> came into Madison Square Garden on Friday night as one of the worst defensive teams in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls\u2019 defense allows 121.6 points per game this season, the third-most in the association, and it was a topic of conversation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Knicks<\/a> legend turned broadcaster Walt \u201cClyde\u201d Frazier.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently, he had an interesting choice of words when discussing the Bulls to others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike, I was talking to my friends, man, and I was talking about \u2018eradicated,\u2019 \u2018obliterated,\u2019 \u2018devastated,&#8217;\u201d Fazier said as the game tipped off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought I was talking about Iran. But I was talking about the Bulls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Play-by-play man Mike Breen could not help but let out an, \u201cOh jeez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/former-syracuse-basketball-player-deported-spending-weeks-ice-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FORMER SYRACUSE BASKETBALL PLAYER TO BE DEPORTED AFTER SPENDING WEEKS IN ICE CUSTODY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iran, of course, has been a war zone since late February after the United States and Israel launched a joint military campaign against the country, killing Supreme Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ali-khamenei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ali Khamenei<\/a> and other top Iranian officials.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier made note that the Bulls had allowed 145 points to the Indiana Pacers, 157 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia 76ers,<\/a> and an average of around 135 during their five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh jeez. That\u2019s how you start a telecast?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five-game average was par for the course for Chicago, who allowed 136 to the Knicks in a 40-point loss.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is 29-48 and in 12th place in the Eastern Conference, as they will soon find out their fate in the NBA Draft lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Fox News Digital\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSports_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sports coverage on X<\/a>,\u00a0and subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls came into Madison Square Garden on Friday night as one of the worst defensive teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-698210","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-knicks","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116347801767924279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698210","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=698210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}