Patrick Ewing

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Patrick Ewing reflects on The Captain.

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A Legendary Conversation | Ahmad Rashad with Patrick Ewing

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Patrick Ewing Joins Alan Hahn on the MSG 150 at Home

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In 1994, Patrick Ewing and his counterpart on the Rockets, Hakeem Olajuwon, staged an epic battle in the NBA Finals, in which Ewing blocked a then-record 30 shots in the series. It was a rematch of the two titans’ head-to-head clash in the 1984 NCAA championship game, with Ewing’s Georgetown University defeating Olajuwon’s University of Houston. In 2008, the two big men shared plenty of laughs together as they were inducted side by side into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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#NYK70 | 2008: Patrick Ewing Inducted Into Basketball Hall of Fame

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During his 15th and last season with the Knicks, Patrick Ewing notched his 1000th game with the club. The beloved big man remains the only player to do so in a Knicks uniform.
Looking to the future, before the start of the 2000-01 season the team traded the man who had been the face of the franchise since draft day in 1985. On November 14, Knicks fans got their first look at Ewing in another team’s colors, as New York tipped off against the SuperSonics on their home court in Seattle. On a bittersweet night for the Knicks, Ewing’s new team won, 96-75. The center had 10 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots.

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#NYK70 | 2000: Patrick Ewing's First Game vs Knicks

When he was a kid, Patrick Ewing’s games were cricket and soccer, not basketball. It wasn’t until he left his native Jamaica at age 12 for Cambridge, Massachusetts, that he began playing the game that would define his life.
After a stellar college career with John Thompson’s Georgetown Hoyas and a key role on the 1984 Olympic team that took home the gold medal, Ewing was the obvious prize in the 1985 draft. (One NBA executive was quoted as saying, “We’ve had the Mikan era, the Russell era, the Kareem era. Now we’ll have the Ewing era.”) In the first year of the draft lottery -- designed to discourage teams from “tanking” in order to gain a higher draft pick -- the Knicks emerged with the number one pick. To the surprise of no one, they chose Ewing, beginning a long and fruitful relationship with one of the franchise’s all-time greats.

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#NYK70 | 1985: Knicks Win Lottery, Pick Patrick Ewing

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(1994) Knicks defeat Pacers 89-78 in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Finals at MSG to take a 2-0 series lead. Patrick Ewing scores 32 points and hauls in 13 boards and Derek Harper records 18 points and eight assists.