There can be a brand new face of the Knicks’ TV broadcast this season.
MSG Community employed ex-NBA participant Jamal Crawford to function a sport analyst for the Knicks in 2024-25, in keeping with a report from The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand.
Crawford is predicted to fill in for Walt “Clyde” Frazier, who turns 80 in March, alongside play-by-play announcer Mike Breen for about 10 video games, per Marchand.
Throughout a 20-year enjoying profession, Crawford, 44, performed for 9 totally different groups, together with a four-plus yr stint with the Knicks from 2004-08.
The most effective bench scorers in NBA historical past, Crawford gained the Sixth Man of the Yr award 3 times.
After retiring from the NBA, Crawford spent two seasons showing on the NBA on TNT and within the sales space for TNT Sports activities.
Crawford reportedly turned down a proposal to stick with the community in the course of the 2024-25 season, Warner Bros. Discovery’s closing season broadcasting the NBA, to pursue different alternatives.
Marchand reported that Crawford is “a candidate to hitch both Amazon, NBC or ESPN,” the NBA’s three broadcast companions beginning subsequent season.
Final season, Mark Jackson was imagined to fill in as an analyst for Frazier on MSG Community earlier than Knicks crew president Leon Rose squashed the association partly attributable to an previous quarrel between Jackson and assistant coach Darren Erman relationship again to their days with the Golden State Warriors.
MSG Community had additionally reportedly regarded into reuniting Breen, Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, who had for years labored collectively on ESPN’s No. 1 NBA broadcasting crew.
