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"FacebookPinterest\n\n The NBA has easily earned itself the title of &amp;quot;Best Dressed&amp;quot; sports league (one non-prescription frame at a time) and Clyde Frazier, the man who started it all, is still turning heads. We caught up with him at his new restaurant in Manhattan, Clyde&amp;#39;s Wine Dine, to pick up his thoughts on eternal style, the best way for a player to recover from a loss, plus a few styling tips for Jeremy Lin.\n\nGQ: Love the new restaurant. Have you gotten into cooking yourself?\n\n Clyde Frazier: No, no, but I cook my own food at home. I have a George Foreman grill. I&amp;#39;m a fish/chicken/turkey guy, with very simplistic fruits and vegetables. I usually do all of my own cooking at home.\n\nGQ: Looking around the restaurant\u2014seeing the basketball court and fur walls\u2014it really screams, &amp;quot;Clyde.&amp;quot; Was this the only way you&amp;#39;d agree to do the restaurant?\n\n Clyde Frazier: It wasn&amp;#39;t really me, it was my partner, Michael Weinstein. It was his vision, man. He came to me, so I figured we&amp;#39;d do a kind of regular sports bar. It exceeds my expectations. Ironically, when I met with the architecture firm office, I was wearing the &amp;quot;cow&amp;quot; suit. I&amp;#39;m sure that helped.\n\nGQ: So you just randomly break out the cow suit?\n\n Clyde Frazier: Yeah!\n\nGQ: What are some of the earliest memories you have of being stylish?\n\n Clyde Frazier: Growing up in Atlanta, we didn&amp;#39;t have any money but my mother always preached neatness\u2014&amp;quot;Whatever you got son, it&amp;#39;s gotta be clean.&amp;quot; Sometime my older buddies would loan me some fancy shoes or a sweater. Going off to college, I really didn&amp;#39;t have any taste. If I wore something brown, I matched it with brown. I was wearing penny loafers like everybody else, button down collared shirts. Then I came to New York, the mecca...\n\nGQ: And it&amp;#39;s been fur and cow-skin ever since?\n\n Clyde Frazier: Pretty much. Everybody used to be dressed up. My teammates and I idolized the Temptations and that&amp;#39;s how those guys dressed. So now these guys in the NBA idolize the rappers, so that&amp;#39;s how they dress. I used to always go shopping if I wasn&amp;#39;t playing well. I&amp;#39;d go to the hotel room, I&amp;#39;d dress up and say, hey man, &amp;quot;I still look good.&amp;quot;\n\nGQ: Is that something you recommend to players? Like if D-wade has a terrible game, should he go to Barneys first thing in the morning?\n\n Clyde Frazier: Well you have to find some outlet that pacifies yourself. I went from the Rolls Royce, to mink coats, so that was the whole glamor of it all. And then we started to win, so everyone was focused on this guy Clyde and the Knicks. The city also had Namath. Joe was doing his thing.\n\nGQ: Were you and Joe close?\n\n Clyde Frazier: In those days, we partied all the time.\n\nGQ: Were you and Joe ever competitive style-wise?\n\n Clyde Frazier: He wasn&amp;#39;t as sharp as I was, but he was doing a lot of commercials and endorsements.\n\nGQ: Who wore the fur coat first?\n\n Clyde Frazier: He started with the fur coat but I took it to the next level. To think in retrospect they used to criticize us for wearing fur coats and long hair and now look at what you guys have to go through.\n\nGQ: Why do you think the NBA is so stylish now?\n\n Clyde Frazier: Because of the cool. Basketball is just a cooler game\u2014it&amp;#39;s not like baseball. Football is OK, but the basketball players got something different.\n\nGQ: Jeremy Lin was one of the big stories from the NBA this year. As a Knick and stylish guy, do you have any style advice for him?\n\n Clyde Frazier: Well if you watched during the games when he was hurt he was dressed OK. He had his glasses and a pretty OK suit on. He would look good in the way that a lot of the guys dress now, really preppy. He should make preppy style his thing.\n\nGQ: What&amp;#39;s one specific thing he should wear?\n\n Clyde Frazier: If he were bold, that would set him apart. Something like white bucks, a bowtie, and a sweater. He&amp;#39;s got the glasses going already. Even a brim would set him off.\n\nGQ: The Internet would go nuts if Jeremy showed up in a Panama hat.\n\n Clyde Frazier: Right! It would be a sensation.\n\nGQ: How long does it usually take you to get dressed in the morning?\n\n Clyde Frazier: So you know I usually have two or three outfits hanging there.\n\nGQ: Backups.\n\n Clyde Frazier: Backups. Because most days I&amp;#39;m not really sure what I&amp;#39;m going to do. Plus, I have hundreds of suits.\n\nGQ: Hundreds?\n\n Clyde Frazier: Well probably like 120 or so. See, I haven&amp;#39;t gained weight, so I ...like this [points to the suit he&amp;#39;s wearing], this suit is probably 10 years old or more.\n\nGQ: Those are a lot of options. Does everyone expect to just see you in the cow suit?\n\n Clyde Frazier: They want something like the cow suit, like today they say I&amp;#39;m conservative. They want pizazz all the time, but most of my pizazz is in my winter suits.\n\nGQ: When it&amp;#39;s 100 degrees outside it&amp;#39;s hard to give the people pizazz.\n\n Clyde Frazier: I&amp;#39;ve got yellow and salmon suits like that for summer\u2014the gabardine type\u2014but most of the other ones are more for winter.\n\nGQ: As a beloved New York athlete, what do you think of Tim Tebow playing for the Jets?\n\n Clyde Frazier: When you&amp;#39;re boastful about faith like that... It&amp;#39;s like being President, you can&amp;#39;t please everybody. One segment is going to be upset and the other is going to be happy. He&amp;#39;ll never have a harmony because of that.\n\nGQ: How important is harmony?\n\n Clyde Frazier: For me, it&amp;#39;s everything. I always seek peace and happiness. If you saw me play, I never show emotion. But I was percolating on the inside, you know? That&amp;#39;s how I live my life. Simplicity. If it&amp;#39;s too complex, I can&amp;#39;t deal with it.\n\nGQ: Other than clothes.\n\n Clyde Frazier: Other than clothes. That&amp;#39;s the only time I don&amp;#39;t show my age."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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