Walt Frazier was the New York Knicks' first-round pick in the 1967 draft and was chosen to the league's All-Rookie team. Frazier helped the New York Knicks win their first NBA championship in 1969-70, scoring 36 points and dishing out 19 assists in the deciding seventh game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Frazier led the Knicks to their second NBA title in 1973, averaging 21.1 points, 5.9 assists, and 7.3 rebounds per game. He spent the 1976-77 season with the Knicks before concluding his 13-year professional career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he appeared in 51 games in 1977-78 and 15 more in parts of his final two seasons.
He was known for his sartorial flamboyance and for his cool demeanor on the court. In the early 1970s he became the first NBA player with his own shoe: Puma's suede Clyde. Frazier was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987 and named one of the NBA's 50 greatest players in 1996.
