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  • How Walt Frazier got the nickname “Clyde”

    “During his rookie season with the Knicks, he picked up the nickname “Clyde” because he wore a fedora similar to that of Warren Beatty, who played Clyde Barrow in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.”

    Frazier’s nickname derived from the crime duo ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ who were famous for numerous bank robberies. Because of his sneaky game and ability to make fast steals, it only made sense that Frazier became known as Clyde.

    Genius.

    [h/t Puma]

  • The Hands Behind New York City’s Hoop Dreams

    “The circle doesn’t just form itself — we form it, […] is there a machine that can probably make it? I mean, yeah … But this is just the way it’s been done.”

    Inside a red, metal-lined shack hidden from plain sight along the Flushing Meadows Corona Park rim, a large welding table anchors the workshop where Romano and three other Parks blacksmiths fabricate basketball hoops for city parks the old-fashioned way.

    […] “It feels good thinking and knowing that they’re in the park, and kids are using it,” Valenti said of the handmade rims. “A lot of great basketball players that came out of New York played on these hoops, so that’s pretty cool.”

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