Former Knick Jamal Crawford will fill in for Walt Frazier this season

There will be a new face of the Knicks’ TV broadcast this season. 

MSG Network hired ex-NBA player Jamal Crawford to serve as a game analyst for the Knicks in 2024-25, according to a report from The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand.

Crawford is expected to fill in for Walt “Clyde” Frazier, who turns 80 in March, alongside play-by-play announcer Mike Breen for about 10 games, per Marchand. 

During a 20-year playing career, Crawford, 44, played for nine different teams, including a four-plus year stint with the Knicks from 2004-08. 

One of the best bench scorers in NBA history, Crawford won the Sixth Man of the Year award three times.

After retiring from the NBA, Crawford spent two seasons appearing on the NBA on TNT and in the booth for TNT Sports.

Crawford reportedly turned down an offer to stay with the network during the 2024-25 season, Warner Bros. Discovery’s final season broadcasting the NBA, to pursue other opportunities. 

Marchand reported that Crawford is “a candidate to join either Amazon, NBC or ESPN,” the NBA’s three broadcast partners starting next season. 

Last season, Mark Jackson was supposed to fill in as an analyst for Frazier on MSG Network before Knicks team president Leon Rose squashed the arrangement in part due to an old quarrel between Jackson and assistant coach Darren Erman dating back to their days with the Golden State Warriors. 

MSG Network had also reportedly looked into reuniting Breen, Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, who had for years worked together on ESPN’s No. 1 NBA broadcasting team.