Editing Patrick Ewing (section)

{{Short description|Jamaican-American basketball player and coach (born 1962)}}
{{for|his son and former basketball player|Patrick Ewing Jr.}}
{{Use American English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Patrick Ewing
| image = Patrick Ewing 2021 (cropped).jpg
| image_size = 240
| caption = Ewing in 2021
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|8|5}}
| birth_place = [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], Jamaica
| nationality = Jamaican / American
| height_ft = 7
| height_in = 0
| weight_lb = 255
| weight_footnote = 
| high_school = [[Cambridge Rindge and Latin School|Cambridge Rindge and Latin]]<br />([[Cambridge, Massachusetts]])
| college = [[Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball|Georgetown]] (1981–1985)
| draft_year = 1985
| draft_round = 1
| draft_pick = 1
| draft_team = [[New York Knicks]]
| career_start = 1985
| career_end = 2002
| career_position = [[Center (basketball)|Center]]
| career_number = 33, 6
| coach_start = 2002
| years1 = {{nbay|1985|start}}–{{nbay|1999|end}}
| team1 = [[New York Knicks]]
| years2 = {{nbay|2000|full=y}}
| team2 = [[Seattle SuperSonics]]
| years3 = {{nbay|2001|full=y}}
| team3 = [[Orlando Magic]]
| cyears1 = {{nbay|2002|full=y}}
| cteam1 = [[Washington Wizards]] (assistant)
| cyears2 = {{nbay|2003|start}}–{{nbay|2006|end}}
| cteam2 = [[Houston Rockets]] (assistant)
| cyears3 = {{nbay|2007|start}}–{{nbay|2011|end}}
| cteam3 = [[Orlando Magic]] (assistant)
| cyears4 = {{nbay|2013|start}}–{{nbay|2016|end}}
| cteam4 = [[Charlotte Hornets|Charlotte Bobcats / Hornets]] (assistant)
| cyears5 = [[2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|2017]]–[[2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|2023]]
| cteam5 = [[Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball|Georgetown]]
| highlights = '''As player:'''
* 11× [[NBA All-Star Game|NBA All-Star]] ({{nasg|1986}}, {{nasg|1988}}–{{nasg|1997}})
* [[All-NBA First Team]] ({{nbay|1989|end}})
* 6× [[All-NBA Second Team]] ({{nbay|1987|end}}, {{nbay|1988|end}}, {{nbay|1990|end}}–{{nbay|1992|end}}, {{nbay|1996|end}})
* 3× [[NBA All-Defensive Second Team]] (1988, 1989, {{nbay|1991|end}})
* [[NBA Rookie of the Year Award|NBA Rookie of the Year]] ({{nbay|1985|end}})
* [[NBA All-Rookie Team]] ({{nbay|1985|end}})
* [[NBA anniversary team]] ([[50 Greatest Players in NBA History|50th]], [[NBA 75th Anniversary Team|75th]])
* No. 33 [[New York Knicks#Retired numbers|retired by New York Knicks]]
* [[List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball champions|NCAA champion]] ([[1984 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1984]])
* [[NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player]] (1984)
* [[List of U.S. men's college basketball national player of the year awards|National college player of the year]] ([[1984–85 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1985]])
* 3× Consensus first-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1983 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1983]]–[[1985 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1985]])
* 2× [[Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|Big East Player of the Year]] (1984, 1985)
* 4× [[Big East Conference Men's Basketball Defensive Player of the Year|Big East Defensive Player of the Year]] (1982–1985)
* 3× First-team [[List of All-Big East Conference men's basketball teams|All-Big East]] (1983–1985)
* Second-team All-Big East (1982)
* [[List of U.S. high school basketball national player of the year awards|National high school player of the year]] (1981)
* [[McDonald's All-American Game|McDonald's All-American]] ([[1981 McDonald's All-American Boys Game|1981]])
* 2× First-team [[Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team|''Parade'' All-American]] (1980, 1981)
'''As coach:'''
* [[Big East men's basketball tournament|Big East tournament]] champion ([[2021 Big East men's basketball tournament|2021]])
| stats_league = NBA
| stat1label = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value = 24,815 (21.0 ppg)
| stat2label = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value = 11,617 (9.8 rpg)
| stat3label = [[Block (basketball)|Blocks]]
| stat3value = 2,894 (2.4 bpg)
| HOF_player = patrick-ewing
| CBBASKHOF_year = 2012
| medal_templates = {{MedalSport|Men's [[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{bk|USA}}}}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalGold|[[Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|1984 Los Angeles]]|[[1984 United States men's Olympic basketball team|Men's basketball]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|1992 Barcelona]]|[[1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team|Men's basketball]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIBA Americas Championship|Americas Championship]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1992 FIBA Americas Championship|1992 Portland]]|Team competition}}
| team = New York Knicks
| position = Basketball ambassador
| league = [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]
}}

'''Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr.''' (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American [[basketball]] coach and former professional player who is a basketball ambassador for the [[New York Knicks]] of the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA), where he played most of his career as the starting [[center (basketball)|center]] before ending his playing career with brief stints with the [[Seattle SuperSonics]] and [[Orlando Magic]]. Ewing is regarded as one of the greatest{{under discussion inline|talkpage=WT:NBA#Discussion on allowing "greatest" in the lead of all NBA players}} centers of all time, playing a dominant role in the New York Knicks' 1990s success.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XNd-XE8Es0s Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120428210319/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNd-XE8Es0s&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNd-XE8Es0s|title=Patrick Ewing's number retired at MSG|date=March 26, 2011|access-date=July 17, 2016|via=YouTube|publisher=NBA}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Highly recruited out of [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYCsBwAAQBAJ&dq=patrick+ewing+highly+recruited&pg=PT296 | isbn=9781317477433 | title=African Americans in Sports | date=March 26, 2015 | publisher=Routledge | access-date=March 19, 2023 | archive-date=April 7, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407115031/https://books.google.com/books?id=rYCsBwAAQBAJ&dq=patrick+ewing+highly+recruited&pg=PT296 | url-status=live }}</ref> Ewing played center for the [[Georgetown_Hoyas_men's_basketball|Georgetown Hoyas]] for four years—in three of which the team reached the [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA championship game]]. [[ESPN]] in 2008 designated him the 16th-greatest college basketball player of all time.<ref>{{cite web |title=25 Greatest Players In College Basketball |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=3230172 |website=ESPN.com |access-date=January 30, 2014 |date=March 8, 2008 |archive-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423020009/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=3230172 |url-status=live }}</ref> He had a seventeen-year NBA career, predominantly playing for the New York Knicks, where he was an eleven-time all-star and named to seven All-NBA teams. The Knicks appeared in the [[NBA Finals]] twice (1994 and 1999) during his tenure. He won Olympic gold medals as a member of the [[1984 United States men's Olympic basketball team|1984]] and [[1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team|1992]] United States men's Olympic basketball teams.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/history/players/ewing_bio.html |title=Patrick Ewing Bio |date=February 8, 2015 |access-date=July 17, 2016 |website=NBA.com |publisher=NBA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221071926/http://www.nba.com/history/players/ewing_bio.html |archive-date=February 21, 2007}}</ref> Ewing was selected as one of the [[50 Greatest Players in NBA History]] in 1996 and as one of the [[NBA 75th Anniversary Team|75 Greatest Players in NBA History]] in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NBA's 75 Anniversary Team Players {{!}} NBA.com {{!}} NBA.com|url=https://www.nba.com/75|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.nba.com|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217170248/https://www.nba.com/75|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/nba_50_greatest.html|title=50 Greatest Players in NBA History|date=February 8, 2015|access-date=July 17, 2016|website=Basketball Reference|archive-date=September 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903062328/https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/nba_50_greatest.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He is a two-time inductee into the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]] in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] (in 2008 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the 1992 Olympic team).<ref>{{cite web|author=ay |url=http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/1992-united-states-olympic-team |title=The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame – Hall of Famers |website=Hoophall.com |access-date=July 17, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818075707/http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/1992-united-states-olympic-team |archive-date=August 18, 2010}}</ref> Additionally he was inducted into the [[U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame]] as a member of the "Dream Team" in 2009. His number 33 was retired by the Knicks in 2003.