{"id":698341,"date":"2026-04-04T19:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:55:18","slug":"knicks-broadcasters-joke-comparing-bulls-obliterated-defense-to-iran-leaves-partner-stunned-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698341\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks broadcaster&#8217;s joke comparing Bulls&#8217; &#8216;obliterated&#8217; defense to Iran leaves partner stunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/nba\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bulls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">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&#8217; 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Knicks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">New York Knicks<\/a> legend turned broadcaster Walt &#8220;Clyde&#8221; 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click Here For More Sports Coverage On Foxnews.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Click Here For More Sports Coverage On Foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mike, I was talking to my friends, man, and I was talking about &#8216;eradicated,&#8217; &#8216;obliterated,&#8217; &#8216;devastated,'&#8221; Fazier said as the game tipped off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They thought I was talking about Iran. But I was talking about the Bulls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS\/mvaj7wvj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read On The Fox News App;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Read On The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Play-by-play man Mike Breen could not help but let out an, &#8220;Oh jeez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/former-syracuse-basketball-player-deported-184436710.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Syracuse Basketball Player To Be Deported After Spending Weeks In Ice Custody;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ali Khamenei;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Philadelphia 76ers,<\/a> and an average of around 135 during their five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh jeez. That&#8217;s how you start a telecast?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click Here To Download The Fox News App;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Click Here To Download The Fox News App<\/a><\/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_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sports coverage on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">sports coverage on X<\/a>,\u00a0and subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Original article source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/knicks-broadcasters-joke-comparing-bulls-obliterated-defense-iran-leaves-partner-stunned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Knicks broadcaster&#039;s joke comparing Bulls&#039; &#039;obliterated&#039; defense to Iran leaves partner stunned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Knicks broadcaster&#8217;s joke comparing Bulls&#8217; &#8216;obliterated&#8217; defense to Iran leaves partner stunned<\/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":698342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[87776,7,920,919,329,3824,126,25298,1634,2114,6,191,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-698341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bulls","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-chicagobulls","14":"tag-indiana-pacers","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-madison-square-garden","17":"tag-mike-breen","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-new-york-knicks","20":"tag-philadelphia-76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116348198957447840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698341","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=698341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}