Patrick Ewing

Player information
Patrick Ewing

Full name	Patrick Aloysius Ewing
birthday	5th August 1962 (age 58)
place of birth	Kingston , Jamaica
size	213 cm
Weight	116 kg
position	center
college	Georgetown
NBA draft	1985 , 1st Pick , New York Knicks
Club information
society	Georgetown Hoyas ( Head Coach )
league	NCAA Big East Conference
Clubs as active
1985-2000	United States New York Knicks
2000-2001	United States Seattle SuperSonics
2001-2002	United States Orlando Magic
National team
1981, 1984, 1992	United States United States	26 games
Clubs as coaches
2002-2003	United States Washington Wizards (Assistant)
2003-2006	United States Houston Rockets (Assistant)
2007–2012	United States Orlando Magic (Assistant)
2013-2017	United States Charlotte Hornets (Associate HC)
since 02017	United States Georgetown Hoyas (Head Coach)

Patrick Aloysius Ewing (born August 5, 1962 in Kingston ) is a former Jamaican - American basketball player and current coach. He is currently under contract as head coach for the college team at Georgetown Hoyas .

Ewing was active most of his professional career for the New York Knicks , where he was eleven times NBA All-Star and twice reached the NBA Finals. He is considered to be one of the best NBA players who couldn't win a championship in their entire career. He was named to the list of the 50 best NBA players of all time ; In 2008 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame . Jersey number 33 is no longer awarded by the Knicks in honor of Ewing. Ewing is widely believed to be one of the best center players of all time.

Career

college

Ewing attended Georgetown College until 1985 . He led his college team to the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship that year . In 1985 he was named "College Player of the Year" and selected first in the NBA draft by the New York Knicks .

NBA

For most of his NBA career, Ewing played with the Knicks (1985-2000). In his debut season, he won the Rookies of the Year award for best newcomer to the league and was accordingly appointed to the NBA All-Rookie Team . Ewing led the Knicks to the NBA finals in 1994 and 1999, but lost both times. During his time in New York Ewing was 11 times NBA All-Star (ten times in a row from 1988 to 1997) and 7 times a member of the All-NBA team . No other player has scored more points for the team, blocked throws, collected rebounds , or brought steals .

From 1997 to 2001 Ewing was president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA). At the end of his career he played one season each with the Seattle SuperSonics (2000-2001) and the Orlando Magic (2001-2002). Ewing averaged 21.0 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.45 blocks in 1,183 NBA games.

Ewing played 15 seasons (1985-2000) for the New York Knicks

He is one of four players who took more than 800 NBA games to reach the first Triple Double : Karl Malone (860), Ewing (834), Tony Parker (826) and Cedric Maxwell (824). He was also the first player in NBA history to be in the starting five for the first 1,000 games of his career .

National team

In 1984, while still a college player at Georgetown University , Ewing was a member of the US Olympic team that won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles,

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Ewing once again won the gold medal as part of the now legendary Dream Team .

As a trainer

Ewing began his coaching career as an assistant with the Washington Wizards , then he worked for the Houston Rockets for three years in the same position before he was poached by Stan Van Gundy for the Orlando Magic .

From 2013 to 2017 Ewing was Associate Head Coach at the Charlotte Hornets .

In April 2017, he signed a contract as head coach of the college basketball team at Georgetown Hoyas .

Trivia

In 1996, Ewing starred alongside NBA stars Michael Jordan , Charles Barkley , Larry Johnson and Muggsy Bogues in the animated film Space Jam .

He has a close friendship with his long-time center rival Alonzo Mourning . When Mourning needed a donor kidney, Ewing had himself tested as a living donor . However, Mourning's cousin's kidney was judged more appropriate.

His son Patrick Ewing Jr. also played for Georgetown in the NCAA and later in the NBA. He was also active for Telekom Baskets Bonn in the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).

NBA statistics

Legend
GP	Matches played (Games Played)	GS	Games from the beginning (Games started)	MPG	Graduated minutes per game (Minutes per game)
FG%	Throw rate from the field (field goal percentage)	3P%	Throwing quota three-point throws (3-point field-goal percentage)	FT%	Free throw rate (free-throw percentage)
RPG	Rebounds per game (rebounds per game)	APG	Assists per game (assists per game)	SPG	Steals per game (steals per game)
BPG	Blocks per game (blocks per game)	PPG	Points per game (points per game)	FAT	Career record

Regular season

season	team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1985-86	new York	50	50	35.4	.474	.000	.739	9.0	2.0	1.1	2.1	20.0
1986-87	new York	63	63	35.0	.503	.000	.713	8.8	1.7	1.4	2.3	21.5
1987-88	new York	82	82	31.0	.555	.000	.716	8.2	1.5	1.3	3.0	23.2
1988-89	new York	80	80	36.2	.567	.000	.746	9.3	2.4	1.5	3.5	22.7
1989-90	new York	82	82	38.6	.551	.250	.775	10.9	2.2	1.0	4.0	28.6
1990-91	new York	81	81	38.3	.514	.000	.745	11.2	3.0	1.0	3.2	26.6
1991-92	new York	82	82	38.4	.522	.167	.738	11.2	1.9	1.1	3.0	24.0
1992-93	new York	81	81	37.1	.503	.143	.719	12.1	1.9	0.9	2.0	24.2
1993-94	new York	79	79	37.6	.496	.286	.765	11.2	2.3	1.1	2.7	24.5
1994-95	new York	79	79	37.0	.503	.286	.750	11.0	2.7	0.9	2.0	23.9
1995-96	new York	76	76	36.6	.466	.143	.761	10.6	2.1	0.9	2.4	22.5
1996-97	new York	78	78	37.0	.488	.222	.754	10.7	2.0	0.9	2.4	22.4
1997-98	new York	26th	26th	32.6	.504	.000	.720	10.2	1.1	0.6	2.2	20.8
1998-99	new York	38	38	34.2	.435	.000	.706	9.9	1.1	0.8	2.6	17.3
1999-2000	new York	62	62	32.8	.435	.000	.731	9.7	0.9	0.6	1.4	15.0
2000-01	Seattle	79	79	26.7	.430	.000	.685	7.4	1.2	0.7	1.2	9.6
2001-02	Orlando	65	4th	13.9	.444	.000	.701	4.0	0.5	0.3	0.7	6.0
total		1.183	1.122	34.3	.504	.152	.740	9.8	1.9	1.0	2.5	21.0
All star games		9	3	17.8	.537	.000	.692	6.7	0.8	1.2	1.8	11.8

Playoffs

season	team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1988	new York	4th	4th	38.3	.491	.000	.864	12.8	2.5	1.5	3.3	18.8
1989	new York	9	9	37.8	.486	-	.750	10.0	2.2	1.0	2.0	19.9
1990	new York	10	10	39.5	.521	.500	.823	10.5	3.1	1.3	2.0	29.4
1991	new York	3	3	36.7	.400	-	.778	10.0	2.0	0.3	1.7	16.7
1992	new York	12	12	40.2	.456	.000	.740	11.1	2.3	0.6	2.6	22.7
1993	new York	15th	15th	40.3	.512	1,000	.638	10.9	2.4	1.1	2.1	25.5
1994	new York	25th	25th	41.3	.437	.364	.740	11.7	2.6	1.3	3.0	21.9
1995	new York	11	11	36.3	.513	.333	.686	9.6	2.5	0.5	2.3	19.0
1996	new York	8th	8th	41.0	.474	.500	.651	10.6	1.9	0.1	3.1	21.5
1997	new York	9	9	39.7	.527	.000	.643	10.6	1.9	0.3	2.4	22.6
1998	new York	4th	4th	33.0	.357	-	.593	8.0	1.3	0.8	1.3	14.0
1999	new York	11	11	31.5	.430	-	.593	8.7	0.5	0.6	0.7	13.1
2000	new York	14th	14th	32.9	.418	-	.697	9.5	0.4	1.1	1.4	14.6
2002	Orlando	4th	0	16.8	.320	.000	.588	5.5	1.0	0.3	1.0	6.5
Career		139	135	37.5	.469	.348	.718	10.3	2.0	0.9	2.2	20.2

Career highs

category	Maximum value	team	opponent	date
Points	51	New York Knicks	Boston Celtics	1990
Field goals scored	22nd	New York Knicks	Charlotte Hornets	December 01, 1990
Field goal attempts	37	New York Knicks	San Antonio Spurs	03/26/1991
scored 3	1	New York Knicks	N / A	19 x
3 attempts	3	New York Knicks	N / A	2 x
free-throw hits scored	18th	New York Knicks	Indiana Pacers	01/10/1991
Free Throw Attempts	23	New York Knicks	N / A	2 x
Offensive rebounds	11	New York Knicks	Milwaukee Bucks	02/20/1996
Defensive rebounds	22nd	New York Knicks	Miami Heat	12/19/1992
Rebounds	26th	New York Knicks	Miami Heat	12/19/1992
Assists	11	New York Knicks	Charlotte Hornets	04/19/1996
Steals	5	New York Knicks	N / A	4 x
Blocks	9	New York Knicks	N / A	3 x
Minutes played	54	New York Knicks	Atlanta Hawks	07/12/1991

literature

Sven Simon: Patrick Ewing. The warrior. In: Five 1, 2004, pp. 64-68.

Individual evidence

↑ usabasketball.com - All-Time USA Basketball Men's Roster // E ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Patrick Ewing. Accessed April 25, 2020 (English).
^ Marc Tracy: Georgetown Hires Patrick Ewing as Men's Basketball Coach . In: The New York Times . April 3, 2017, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 25, 2020]).
↑ Donating kidney 'a no-brainer' for Mourning's cousin

Web links

Commons : Patrick Ewing - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Historical player profile on NBA.com
Patrick Ewing - player profile on basketball-reference.com
Patrick Ewing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Biography on the official website of the NBA (English)
Patrick Ewing in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame At: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (in English).

personal data
SURNAME	Ewing, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ewing, Patrick Aloysius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	5th August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kingston , Jamaica

[1] usabasketball.com - All-Time USA Basketball Men's Roster // E ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Patrick Ewing. Accessed April 25, 2020 (English).

[3] Marc Tracy: Georgetown Hires Patrick Ewing as Men's Basketball Coach . In: The New York Times . April 3, 2017, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 25, 2020]).

[4] Donating kidney 'a no-brainer' for Mourning's cousin