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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.
Patrick Ewing on playing against Michael Jordan: You know he was good. You know he was athletic. You know he was talented. So we played in the McDonald's games together. I also visited North Carolina when he was at North Carolina. He had already committed but I think they brought him back just to talk me into coming to North Carolina. There were other guys that I thought might have been better than him at that time but the thing that that separated him from a lot of people is that belief. He had a belief in himself. He had a drive and I think also the athleticism. I think all that separated him from everybody else.
Oakley was one of the few people willing to talk on the record. Years ago, he claims, he was attending a game at MSG with his friend Anthony McNair. His former Knicks teammate, Hall-of-Famer Patrick Ewing, was the associate head coach on the opposing squad, and sought out Oakley before tip-off. The pair embraced, chatted briefly, and made plans to talk at the game's conclusion. Oakley and McNair said they were soon approached by security, who informed Oakley he wasn't allowed to stray from his seat or venture into areas where fans are restricted. After the final buzzer, Oakley met Ewing alone near the visitors’ locker room. There, according to Oakley, Ewing warned him about talking because listening devices were everywhere. “Don't talk too loud,” Oakley said Ewing told him. “This place is supposed to be mic'd up.”
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"Don't talk too loud," Knicks legend Charles Oakley recalls Patrick Ewing saying. "They got the whole building mic'd-up." Then, a source tells us + @WIRED , Garden security discussed tracking him across America. And that's just the start of our new collab on MSG's deep state. 🕳️🐇
"Don't talk too loud," Knicks legend Charles Oakley recalls Patrick Ewing saying. "They got the whole building mic'd-up."
— Pablo Torre Finds Out (@pablofindsout) April 17, 2026
Then, a source tells us + @WIRED, Garden security discussed tracking him across America.
And that's just the start of our new collab on MSG's deep state.… pic.twitter.com/aveI3O6NXx
Jose Alvarado is featured in a new AT&T commercial alongside Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Patrick Ewing and John Starks. It’s the first commercial for Alvarado. “That’s what New York can do for you: get you in commercials,” Alvarado said. “My agent called me and said, ‘We’ve got a special thing, do you want to be in a commercial?’ I said ‘Yeah,’ I didn’t know who was going to be in the commercial at first. But the commercial came out pretty dope.”
It marked only the fifth instance in the shot clock era (since 1954-55) that a player scored at least 40 points in 26 or fewer minutes, according to ESPN Research. Wembanyama also grabbed 12 rebounds, joining Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing as the only players in NBA history to record a 40-point double-double in that few minutes. The Lakers were missing four regular starters after center Deandre Ayton was a late scratch because of knee soreness and stars Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Austin Reaves were ruled out earlier in the day. Marcus Smart also didn't play for L.A.
“A free spirit and a person who loved his life,” recalled former Bulls coach Doug Collins, who was hired just before Jawann Oldham’s eventual trade to the New York Knicks to join fellow centers Bill Cartwright and Patrick Ewing. “Incredible, maybe the most balanced seven-foot guy I’ve ever seen,” recalled Cartwright, who later was traded to the Bulls to complete their championship puzzle. “He could do handstands at 7-1. His upper body as so strong; not muscular, but strong. Also probably one of the best big athletes I’ve seen the way he could run and jump.
Who would be on your Knicks Mount Rushmore? Mike Breen: It’s almost impossible to narrow it down, in terms of great players. Patrick Ewing and Clyde, I think, are up there. Bernard King was one of the great scorers in the history of the NBA, with the Knicks as well. I think just from the standpoint of leadership and great play, Willis Reed is up there. I do think Jalen Brunson, the way he’s been playing, is going to be in the conversation as one of the great Knicks of all-time. Mount Rushmore was only four, but there were just a lot of great players, but those are probably the ones that deserve to be at the top of the list.
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Jorge Sierra: Most games in a row with at least one block (since data is available): 1988-1990 Pat Ewing: 145 (streak ended at age 27) 1995-1996 Dikembe Mutombo: 116 (age 29) 2025-2026 Victor Wembanyama: 94 so far (age 21)
Ian Begley: Carmelo Anthony selected Hall of Famers Dwyane Wade and Allen Iverson as presenters for his upcoming induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Dwight Howard selected Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing to be among the group of people presenting him, the HOF announced
Nellie's response when I pointed out to him that the Knicks have a head coaching vacancy and asked if he has any interest in returning to Madison Square Garden: "Well, I'll tell you what, I enjoyed New York more than people think. I mean, I just loved it there when I was there, but I wasn't there very long. I got sideways with [Patrick] Ewing because there was a time when Shaquille [O'Neal] was being talked about to wind up with the Lakers. I had coached Shaq on the USA team [at the 1994 World Championships] and I found out that he might also come to New York — those were the two areas he was looking at. If the L.A. thing didn't work out, he liked the idea of being in New York — in the big city. I mentioned that in a private meeting with the owner and with the GM. And it wasn't long before it got back to Ewing. It pretty much ended our relationship when he found out about it."
In an interview with former NBA player Jim Jackson, Charles Oakley was asked what it would take to get him to make peace with ownership and return to the Garden. Oakley largely blamed Patrick Ewing for him not being welcomed back.