Knicks Pick Channing Frye Recalls Richard Jefferson's 'Welcome to the NBA' Gift

Shortly after the Knicks chose him out of Arizona, Frye was invited to party at a club involving other Tuscon alumni, including Jefferson, Gilbert Arenas, and Luke Walton. Frye willingly turned his credit card over to Jefferson who claimed that he wanted to "hold (a) table."  

The newly-minted Knick might've been charged enough to buy several tables by the end of the night.

"Do you know how much that bill was?" Frye rhetorically asked Jefferson, then a star with the New Jersey Nets. "It was like $36,000. 10 grand is for two tables, and we had seven tables. The NBA money hasn't even gotten into the ozone yet. My phone is blowing up, 'Who's charging $36,000?!'"

Jefferson far from denies the literal and figurative charges, claiming it was "rookie hazing." In the midst of it all, Jefferson further claimed he was there to act as a "security blanket," covering any charges Frye's credit card would be unable to handle. Frye himself said that Jefferson had "clout" in metropolitan nightclubs, having helped guide the Nets to consecutive NBA Finals appearances.

Frye would prove more than capable of footing the bill, albeit years down the road: in 13 NBA seasons between New York, Portland, Phoenix, Orlando, Cleveland, and Los Angeles, Frye would earn over $68.6 million. He played his first two seasons with the Knicks before he was dealt to the Trail Blazers in a deal that send Zach Randolph east.

A trade from Orlando to the Cleveland Cavaliers reunited him with Jefferson in February 2016 and the two would go on to partake in the franchise's first championship trek later that summer. Frye and Jefferson also came with with the "Road Trippin'" podcast along with Clifton (then repping Fox Sports Ohio) to pass time during, as the title implies, road trips.