We’ve seen plenty of transcendent big-moment performances in our town. We saw Reggie Jackson swat three home runs on three straight swings to clinch a World Series. We saw Eli Manning twice lead game-winning fourth-quarter touchdown drives to win the Super Bowl. We saw Mark Messier’s natural hat track a day after his guarantee.

They all battle for second place.

They all grapple for runner-up status to the singular moment that big-moment New York has ever witnessed. No. 1, for now and for all times, belongs to Walt Frazier, “Clyde” to four generations of Knicks fans, who on the night of May 8, 1970, turned in a performance for the ages at Madison Square Garden in Game 7 of the Finals.

“It was one of those special, magical nights,” Frazier recalled a half-century later. “One of those moments that was surreal, but also all too real. We had to stand and deliver that night, and we did.”