Patrick Ewing
Real Name: , (born:
August 5, 1962
)
Is an American retired Hall of Fame basketball player and current assistant coach for the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic. He played most of his career with the NBA's New York Knicks as their starting center and played briefly with the Seattle SuperSonics and Orlando Magic. Ewing was named as the 16th greatest college player of all time by ESPN. In a 1996 poll celebrating the 50th anniversary of the NBA, Ewing was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time. On April 7, 2008 he was elected to the National Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame on September 5, 2008 along with former NBA coach Pat Riley and former Houston Rockets center, Hakeem Olajuwon.
Where are they now?
Ewing was working as an assistant coach with the Houston Rockets.
“When I retired I didn't want to just sit at home and not do anything," Ewing says. "Michael Jordan offered me a position in Washington and I started out as a coach. That was something he allowed me to try to see if I liked it. I liked it and I kept with it. The situation happened in Washington that he moved on and then Jeff Van Gundy, who I played for in New York, offered me a position in Houston and I took it. I'm still enjoying it, I'm still learning and hopefully one day I will get a head coaching job.”
On August 29, 2006, Ewing resigned as an assistant coach with the Houston Rockets because he wanted to spend more time with his family.
On July 3, 2007, Ewing was one of four assistants hired to serve under first-year Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy for the 2007-08 season.
On April 7, 2008, it was announced that Ewing will be enshrined into the basketball hall of fame as part of the class of 2008.
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Birth name:
Born: August 5, 1962
Height: 7ft 0in
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Origin: Kingston, Jamaica
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Biography
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Ewing excelled at cricket and soccer. He was 11 years old when he arrived in the United States with his family, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He learned to play basketball at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. He went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C..
Reference/Source(s):
Patrick Ewing. (2008, September 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:00, September 26, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Ewing&oldid=240798484
