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Andrew Jerell Jones: Patrick Ewing on these New York Knicks ending the 53 year NBA title drought: “I’m just blessed to be able to witness Jalen Brunson do what he was able to do tonight.” “This is a dream come true. I can finally say that I’m part of a championship team.” @TWDTV1
JR Smith: I did not grow up a Knicks fan. I hated the Knicks. I did not like Patrick Ewing. I did not like John Starks. I didn't like anything about the Knicks. I was a Bulls fan. I was a Michael Jordan fan. Michael Jordan is my GOAT. That's it. And my agent calls me and he gives he gives me these list of teams. Only thing I kept bringing me back was playing with Chris Paul. He's going to pass the ball. I'm going to be in a great situation. They play fast. They play up and down. My type of style. I tell him, all right. I'm going to the Clippers. He's like, all right. I get on a flight, land in LA. God rest in peace, Mark Warkentien. He is the first person I see. I was with him in Denver. He's like, "Kid, what are you doing?" I was like, I'm going to LA. He was like, "You really want to do that?" And had this conversation. I'm like, okay. Go to the hotel, go to sleep. I wake up. I said, "I'm going to New York." And my dad was the first person I told cuz my dad was a Knicks fan.
JR Smith: "I did not grow up a Knicks fan. I hated the Knicks. I did not like Patrick Ewing. I did not like John Starks. I didn't like anything about the Knicks. I was a Bulls fan. I was a Michael Jordan fan. Michael Jordan is my GOAT."
Also seen at the home game the Knicks lost were billionaire Jets owner Woody Johnson, “Marty Supreme” director Josh Safdie, Woody Allen, President Trump, Fat Joe, Mayor Mamdani, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez Eli Manning, Rick Pitino, Francisco Lindor, Patrick Ewing, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Allan Houston, John Franco, Juan Soto, Todd Zeile and hockey stars Jonathan Quick, Adam Fox and Vincent Trocheck.
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Justin Russo: Victor Wembanyama finished with 32 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 blocks in Game 3. He joins Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing as the only players to do that in a postseason game at Madison Square Garden since blocks first became official in 1973-74.
Starks said that during the 2023-24 season, Knicks owner James Dolan began reserving 14 courtside baseline seats for former players. The act started to get attention on TV during the 2025 Eastern Conference finals when the Knicks played the Indiana Pacers, and former Knicks such as Starks, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Allan Houston, Stephon Marbury and others were seen cheering enthusiastically.
“For one, I don’t think nobody else could do it,” former Knicks All-Star Carmelo Anthony, who starred for New York from 2011-17, told Andscape. “I haven’t seen no other organization do that. It’s only in New York where I’ve seen them bring back the legends of the game. Once a Knick, always a Knick. Everybody is sitting there. You got Clyde at the table calling the game. P.E. [Patrick Ewing] to Starks to my generation watching the new generation. It’s super fun. “You become a fan. You become a fan of the [former Knicks]. You become a fan of Bernard King sitting next to Pat and talking about when he used to play, sitting next to [Stephon] Marbury talking about when he used to play. That camaraderie. You can’t buy that.”
Back in the early 1980s, when the NBA was still trying to regain its footing after falling out of favor with large swaths of the American sporting public during the ’70s, the league didn’t have much on which to hang its hat. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were just at the beginning of their pro careers. Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing were in college. The NBA’s championship series was still being shown on tape delay — 11:30 p.m. ET, then-Johnny Carson time — to the East Coast of the United States. And no one knew what to call the series.
Patrick Ewing: I mean people talk… When they talk about greatest of all time, they very rarely put him in there and what he did was special. I mean he was 7'2. He developed a shot that was virtually unstoppable.
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When we type in LeBron James’ résumé and apply the model, we can calculate the Hall of Fame probability based on his production in those eight seasons. So, what was his Hall of Fame probability as a Laker, according to Basketball Reference’s handy HOF probability calculator? Would he be a HOF in purple and gold only? Without further ado … Yup, Hall of Famer. It’s 86.5%. A near lock. We can say with pretty good certainty that James would be a Hall of Famer if we just looked at his Lakers run. That’s a crazy notion on the surface. Then we peel back the layers and realize that, since he turned 33, he has as many All-NBA appearances as Tracy McGrady, Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson did in each of their careers. And they never won a title.
Jorge Sierra: Jaylen Brown passed Robert Parish and Patrick Ewing in playoff scoring last night. Joel Embiid moved ahead of Vince Carter.
Q. Do you have any regrets about your career and your decisions? Patrick Ewing: My only regret is leaving when I did. You know, I played 15 years in New York and you hear the team is better off without him or little rumbles from maybe some of your teammates… Ah, you know, he's you know, he getting too much touches in too much time. So, you know, I just got tired. I got worn down with it. I'm like, man, it's 15 years I'm still hearing the same bullsh*t. just got tired and I'm like, you know what, man? It's time to go. you know, Seattle came, they gave them a great offer, but that's the only regret that I have.
Q. You're an amazing player, man. One of the best ever to do it. But then you have this conversation, just lazy people I guess, when they talk about ring culture, and ring culture doesn't necessarily validate someone who as elite as you. Do you think people have become more lazy in that conversation when it comes to judging people's careers? Patrick Ewing: Well I'm not going to say people have become lazy. I think that you know all of us who I don't care which sport you play everybody when you at the beginning of the year that have a goal. My goal is to win a championship. And growing up in Boston where all you they talk about is Bill Russell and his 11 rings. So I'm like sh*t I'm going to get me 11 rings like Bill! And then in college I got to the finals three years. So, I'm like in the NBA, yeah, I'm gonna get me a ring. But then you get there and you realize how difficult it is to get a ring or to even get there. I was fortunate to get there twice. The second time we got there, I was hurt. I tore my Achilles and I couldn't play. But I don't see the fact that I don't have a ring or Charles Barkley don't have a ring or all the other great players who play this game that don't have a ring. I don't see that diminishing what they have accomplished. I think that all of us have done something special to to be able to get to where we've gotten, but it just wasn't in the cards for us to get that that elusive championship.