Walt Frazier called the last NBA Playoff career game

Walt Frazier is faced with reality that he calls the last NBA playoff game of his career on Tuesday evening.

After Frazier with the Detroit Pistons with the Detroit Pistons with the Detroit Pistons of the New York Knicks' Playoff series was missed, he will be behind the microphone for game 5 at MSG. New York's controversial 94-93 victory against Detroit in game 4 was an exclusive ABC. Now with a commanding 3: 1 series leadership, the Knicks are entering the second round on Tuesday evening with the chance to get into the second round, which is exclusively for national radio partners. And since all playoff games begin as part of the new media transactions of the NBA for national TV partners, Frazier knows that he may describe the last playoff game of his career.

“It is definitely a downer,” said Frazier to Newsday's Neil Best. “It will be devastating. My palms will be sweaty in the playoffs. Memories come back. I get the chill flies because I always say that in the regular season you make your name and in the playoffs you get your fame.

“Then think about the confrontations with early [Monroe] and Oscar [Robertson] And [Jerry] West, all the different types that rise on this occasion. Nothing else in my life gave me this challenge, nothing else brought me to this point. The playoffs are the thing. Now I will not experience that. “

For decades, the NBA Playoff teams have been able to transmit most of their first round games locally. However, this is the last season in which this will be allowed, with new media transactions removing this right.

Knicks fans have the luxury of hearing their play-by-play announcer Mike Breen for ESPN nationwide. Although it is strange for Knick's fans to hear Breen to hide his fandom during these national programs. But for the 80-year-old Frazier, who only calls game for MSG, this series is between the Knicks and Pistons.

BREEN shared a similar feeling last week that this is the last season in which local programs in early round playoff play a “bad decision” of the NBA.

Frazier, who led the Knicks to two championships after his first playoff game in 1968, remains a fan favorite almost 60 years later. And although he will not be behind the microphone for the Knicks in the playoffs after this series, Frazier will surely remain part of their playoff runs. Frazier said Newsday that the Knicks had already invited him to all home and street playoff games and that he plans to accept them for the offer.