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13 May 2026

I sought out all the great players who played opposite them—Oscar Robertson and Jerry West—who explained the game to me and explained how they interacted with the wonderful Knicks, Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier, and Dave DeBusschere, a team like we’ve never seen in New York since those days. I learned all I could about basketball, and I became a lifelong Knicks fan.

“I sought out all the great players who played opposite them—Oscar Robertson and Jerry West—who explained the game to me and explained how they interacted with the wonderful Knicks, Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier, and Dave DeBusschere, a team like we’ve never seen in New York since those days. I learned all I could about basketball, and I became a lifelong Knicks fan.”

Speaker: Bob Spitz
Episode: Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

Bob Spitz

What Bob said.

I am going to come to understand, like I’ve learned about Led Zeppelin, why this person made those albums and what makes them great.