Patrick Aloysius Ewing is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and a former professional player, he is also the head coach of the Georgetown University men’s team. Ewing is recognized as the greatest men’s basketball player to ever don the Blue & Gray. He played center for Georgetown for four years, in three of which the team reached the NCAA Championship Game. 

Ewing had a seventeen-year NBA career, he played most of his career as the starting center for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was an eleven-time all-star and was named to seven All-NBA teams. During his tenure, the Knicks appeared in the NBA Finals twice, in 1994 and 1999. 

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He also won Olympic gold medals as a member of the 1984 and 1992 United States men’s Olympic basketball teams. In 1996, Ewing was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Apart from these, he is a two-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame, one in 2008 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the 1992 Olympic team. 

Additionally, he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame as a “Dream Team” member in 2009. Ewing left the Knicks as part of a trade to the Seattle SuperSonics in 2000, he ended his career with brief stints with the Seattle SuperSonics and Orlando Magic. Ewing announced his retirement on September 18, 2002. 

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In 2008, ESPN designated him the 16th greatest college basketball player of all time. After his retirement, he took a job as an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards. As of 2021, he was ranked 23rd on the NBA scoring list with 24,815 points.