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Neil deGrasse Tyson walked in Clyde Frazier's shoes

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 2:51 p.m. ET

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson debuts as host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Sunday night at 9 ET on FOX and Monday night at 10 ET on National Geographic.

He stopped by FOX Sports Live and, while talking about growing up a sports fan in New York, revealed a connection to the great Knicks guard Walt "Clyde" Frazier.

Tyson had a friend who worked as a ball boy for the Knicks, who discovered that Frazier and the scientist-to-be shared a shoe size. Frazier used to discard his height-of-fashion Puma sneakers after wearing them once, so Tyson's friend grabbed a pair from the trash and brought them to him. So how cool was that? Tyson got to literally walk in Clyde Frazier's shoes while a kid growing up in The Bronx.

Check out Tyson's uncut interview from FSL: