Walt Frazier says surging Knicks remind him of his championship-winning teams

Few people have seen as much Knicks basketball as Walt “Clyde” Frazier.

From his 10 years playing for them to his nearly four decades working at MSG Networks, Frazier remains the utmost Knicks authority.

So when Frazier likens the present-day Knicks to his championship-winning teams of the 1970s, it shouldn’t be taken lightly.

“They remind me of my team,” Frazier said Tuesday on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

“My team personified ‘team.’ You couldn’t mention Frazier without [Bill] Bradley, without [Dave] DeBusschere, without [Willis] Reed, without [Dick] Barnett. And I see similarities to this team. They’re starting to do that.”

Clyde’s comparison came a day after the Knicks opened the Eastern Conference semifinals with a 137-98 rout of the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1 at Madison Square Garden.

The Knicks shot 63.1% from the field — a franchise record for a playoff game — and assisted on 34 of their 53 made baskets.

It was the Knicks’ third win in a row by at least 29 points — a surge that included a 51-point demolition of the Atlanta Hawks in Game 6 of their first-round series. Before then, no team had ever won three consecutive playoff games by 25 points or more.

“I’m mesmerized by the way the team is playing. Actually, I’m living vicariously,” said Frazier, a Hall of Famer as a player and as a broadcaster.

“Their camaraderie. Their teamwork. They like each other. It’s manifested on the court. Thirty-[four] assists, the way they’re dishing and swishing now. The tenacious defense.”

Frazier, the primary color commentator on MSG, helped lead the Knicks to championships in 1970 and 1973. Those remain the only titles in franchise history, a drought this year’s Knicks hope to finally end.

Last year — with the same starting lineup of Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, OG Anunoby, and — the Knicks advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2000.