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02-25-2010, 03:51 PM
Walt Frazier’s Simple Life on a Palatial Caribbean Estate (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=tsn-waltfrazierssimpleli&prov=tsn&type=lgns)
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Walt Frazier gained a reputation with the Knicks as a suave international ladies man with a license to charm. After his retirement, though, Clyde turned to a simpler life on the island of St. Croix, where he’s turned a simple house into a palace (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/garden/25frazier.html?pagewanted=all). From The New York Times:
Looking for a tranquil hideaway after years as a paparazzi magnet, Mr. Frazier bought the single-level home on a one-acre property for $215,000 in 1979, while visiting St. Croix with his 12-year-old son, Walter III. He was shopping for a condominium, but instead fell hard for a house on hilly terrain with four tentacle-like columns that reminded him of a space ship.
Mr. Frazier still has an apartment in Manhattan, and indeed was there on Monday night as the Knicks celebrated the 40th anniversary of their 1970 N.B.A. championship at Madison Square Garden. But it is in St. Croix that he has invested much of his broadcasting earnings and put in countless hours of work. He now has a five-acre property with 10 houses, a slice of Caribbean heaven that he believes will eventually net him millions.
As part of his repudiation of the nightclubbing Clyde, he changed his lifestyle. The lifelong city dweller became a nature lover. He learned to sail, bought a boat and became a licensed captain. And he found the garden calling to him many mornings at sunrise.
There are more gems like that sprinkled throughout the piece, so read it all.
There’s something a little goofy about a life in nature that involves building a massive estate worth million of dollars, but to each his own. Frazier’s story is an interesting one, not just because of what he’s done with his estate, but also how he’s created a new life for himself after basketball. He’s still "Clyde" on Knicks broadcasts, but that’s not who he is anymore. He found purpose beyond the sport that once defined him.
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Slideshow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/24/garden/20100226-frazier-slideshow_index.html
SportingNews
Walt Frazier gained a reputation with the Knicks as a suave international ladies man with a license to charm. After his retirement, though, Clyde turned to a simpler life on the island of St. Croix, where he’s turned a simple house into a palace (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/garden/25frazier.html?pagewanted=all). From The New York Times:
Looking for a tranquil hideaway after years as a paparazzi magnet, Mr. Frazier bought the single-level home on a one-acre property for $215,000 in 1979, while visiting St. Croix with his 12-year-old son, Walter III. He was shopping for a condominium, but instead fell hard for a house on hilly terrain with four tentacle-like columns that reminded him of a space ship.
Mr. Frazier still has an apartment in Manhattan, and indeed was there on Monday night as the Knicks celebrated the 40th anniversary of their 1970 N.B.A. championship at Madison Square Garden. But it is in St. Croix that he has invested much of his broadcasting earnings and put in countless hours of work. He now has a five-acre property with 10 houses, a slice of Caribbean heaven that he believes will eventually net him millions.
As part of his repudiation of the nightclubbing Clyde, he changed his lifestyle. The lifelong city dweller became a nature lover. He learned to sail, bought a boat and became a licensed captain. And he found the garden calling to him many mornings at sunrise.
There are more gems like that sprinkled throughout the piece, so read it all.
There’s something a little goofy about a life in nature that involves building a massive estate worth million of dollars, but to each his own. Frazier’s story is an interesting one, not just because of what he’s done with his estate, but also how he’s created a new life for himself after basketball. He’s still "Clyde" on Knicks broadcasts, but that’s not who he is anymore. He found purpose beyond the sport that once defined him.
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Slideshow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/24/garden/20100226-frazier-slideshow_index.html