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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 07-11-2001 @ 7:47 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Like Magic, Ewing Is About To Go to Orlando atrick Ewing always said he was going to end up in Florida, we just thought he meant with Pat Riley and the Miami Heat. I'm goin' south someday, he would say. See you guys in Florida, he would say, making it sound like one of his playoff predictions. People go to Florida all the time to retire. Ewing always made it sound like Florida was going to be his last stop before retirement. And now it seems it will be. Only with the Magic instead of the Heat. We are not talking about anything close to the top money he once made with the Knicks, which was $18 million in a season. His salary, if this deal doesn't give out the way Ewing's legs finally seemed to give out with the Supersonics, will be about half of the $4.5 million exception the Magic hopes to use on Ewing and another veteran player. Patrick Ewing hopes to hit new heights for old pal. Ewing, who turns 39 next month, believes he has at least one more year in him. He apparently is willing to work on the cheap for his old friend, and old Knicks teammate, Doc Rivers, to prove it. Rivers, who thinks he has a team good enough to make it to the NBA Finals out of the East next season if Grant Hill comes back healthy, must believe right along with him. It is why Doc Rivers was on the verge of beating Riley to Ewing last night. Everybody just assumed, because of Ewing's respect for Riley and his friendship with Alonzo Mourning, that if he was a backup center somewhere in the Atlantic Division, it would be in Miami. He is apparently on his way to Orlando instead. Maybe Rivers thinks Ewing can help him with the two 7-foot kids he got in the recent NBA draft, Steven Hunter and North Carolina's Brendan Haywood. Maybe Patrick Ewing, who went nowhere with the Sonics, can get one more shot at the title out of the same division as the Knicks. "More than anything else about Patrick Ewing," Rivers said once, "I will remember his work ethic." Ewing wanted out of New York last summer. He was supposed to go to the Sonics for Vin Baker and that complicated deal, which seemed to involve everybody except the New York Liberty, fell apart. The Knicks and Sonics and Lakers and Suns put it back together, and Ewing went to Seattle finally and Glen Rice and Luc Longley and a bag full of used wristbands came to the Knicks. The trade helped the Knicks more, because Marcus Camby would never have developed at center the way he did if Ewing were still around. But the Knicks lost in the first round of the playoff. The Sonics didn't even make the playoffs. Ewing started 79 games for them, but sometimes you looked at the boxscore and he hadn't even played 20 minutes. When it was over for him in Seattle, he had averaged 26 minutes a game, just under 10 points a game and 7.4 rebounds. He looked old a lot of the time. He looked even slower than he had in his last season with the Knicks, when he broke down at the end against the Pacers. But there were still flashes, especially against the world-champion Lakers, whom the Sonics beat all four times they played them. "You want to know something?" Paul Westphal, Ewing's coach for part of last season, said yesterday. "He's still better than most centers in the league." It says more about the state of the position in the NBA than it does about Ewing. He always thought the world of Doc Rivers, the way all the Knicks of the early '90s did. Now Rivers, who was one of the most respected players in the league, has become one of the best coaches in the league, even winning Coach of the Year the season before last. So they will make one more run together, behind Hill and Tracy McGrady and Darrell Armstrong and the big kids out of the draft. Maybe Rivers can convince Ewing to take off some of the weight he has needed to take off for a while. Ewing was out of sight last season, until his emotional Garden return late in the season. He was Out There, playing most of his season after New York had gone to bed. Now he is supposed to be on his way back east, back to the Eastern Conference, back to the Knicks' division, on his way to Florida. He always said this is how it would be for him. He carries his dreams about one more shot at the title, and himself, across the country one last time. | ||||
| mikeWOW | posted on 07-11-2001 @ 7:39 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | personally i think patrick should give it up. even though the magic wont be that bad w. him there.. some expierence w/ ewing to help out mcgrady, hill, mike miller, etc. "i hate people that dont get it!" | ||||
| drkn2forget | posted on 07-11-2001 @ 7:49 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | Well the Magic are quietly builing some team down there and Ewing coming off the bench can only help and I'm sure he's gonna help Eddie Griffin
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| I Rooned It | posted on 07-11-2001 @ 11:52 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | he should just give it up and wait for the Hall of Fame. If he wants to win the championship, he isn't going to do it in O-town. Sign with the Lakers with a pay-cut and sit on the bench until you get fitted for your ring. "Melodrama from you is as uncommon as an oral bowel movement."--Randall from Clerks "One of Tequila's shots!" | ||||
| Francine Banger | posted on 07-12-2001 @ 12:14 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | quote: Who Eddie Griffin the comedian or the Basketball Player? Because I dont see what good Ewing is going to do for Eddie Griffin the Basketball player, seeing that Griffin is on the Rockets.  | ||||
| MashedPotatohead NIGGA PLEASE! All the bitches in here are crazy! | posted on 07-12-2001 @ 12:19 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Why would he join a TV-made boy-band? I think he is a bit on the tall side Sig Pic Under Construction | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 07-13-2001 @ 10:20 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Ewing reportedly agrees to deal with Magic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN.com news services Ewing ORLANDO, Fla. -- Future Hall of Fame center Patrick Ewing has reached a tentative agreement to play for the Orlando Magic, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Friday. The Sentinel also reported that the Magic are close to a deal with forward Horace Grant. The 38-year-old Ewing and 36-year-old Grant have combined to play 30 years in the NBA. Although Magic general manager John Gabriel declined to comment, sources close to both sides confirmed the upcoming deal with Ewing, who played last season with the Seattle SuperSonics after spending the first 15 years of his career with the New York Knicks. Gabriel, who met with Grant on Wednesday, confered with Grant's agent, Jimmy Sexton, Thursday, but no agreement was reached. Sexton was scheduled to return home to Memphis on Friday. An NBA source told the Sentinel that Grant still is waiting for the Los Angeles Lakers to decide how much they can offer him. Both veterans would likely be taking a huge pay cut to play for the Magic in the twilight of their careers. Ewing made $14 million with the Sonics last season, while Grant made $5.9 million with the Lakers. The Magic, who are handcuffed by salary-cap restrictions, are trying to land both by splitting the $4.5 million salary-cap exception. The news of Ewing's commitment to Orlando was met with approval from Magic guard Darrell Armstrong, who was at their summer league game Thursday night. "Patrick can give us an inside presence, something we haven't had the last couple years," Armstrong told the Sentinel. "It's a good opportunity for him. Playing with Tracy McGrady, Grant Hill, Mike Miller, in the environment we have here, all the sunshine, it will make him a young man again -- at least for 10 days. We'll let him basket-hang (stay at one end)." | ||||
| kevin from ct
| posted on 07-13-2001 @ 11:27 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | Patrick's Jewish? | ||||
| F the S out of her A | posted on 07-21-2001 @ 11:54 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Sports Radio has been killing The Big Fellah for the comments he made about Orlando being his best shot for a title. Ewing had a shot at a title three years ago, but was on the bench in street clothes. The lockout more or less ended his career, making him ineffective. If he wanted to win, he should have taken a fucking cut in pay so the Knicks could bring in some quality free agents. Sure, Ewing was a warrior, but his legs left him five years ago, about two minutes after he signed that ridiculous contract extension. Patrick will be a hall-of-famer, but he cheapened his legacy by staying in the game too long, and clearly for the money above all else. [no racist comments on the big fella, let him be] Adopted by JonBenet Norton through correspondence course Admitted complete tool | ||||
| Cluster F | posted on 07-23-2001 @ 12:34 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Well, I guess those strippers will do anything and anybody for money lol. I guess this is why he is now with Orlando, he can be closer to the strip club. Ewing testifies about sexual encounters at strip club By MITCH STACY Associated Press Writer July 23, 2001 ATLANTA (AP) -- Patrick Ewing testified Monday that he was twice provided with sexual favors at the Gold Club while the owner and a former manager watched. Ewing, who signed with the Orlando Magic last week, said he had visited the Atlanta strip club about 10 times, and was given special attention when owner Steve Kaplan and former manager Thomas ``Ziggy'' Sicignano were present. Ewing said he first visited the club in 1996 when he was in Atlanta for the Olympics. He was escorted to a VIP room and Kaplan -- a fan of Ewing's former team, the New York Knicks -- and Sicignano came in to meet him. ``The girls danced, started fondling me, I got aroused, they performed oral sex,'' Ewing said. ``I hung around a little bit and talked to them, then I left.'' Ewing said he did not pay for the sex or anything else at the club. ``I was told it was taken care of,'' Ewing said. Under cross-examination by Kaplan's attorney, Steve Sadow, Ewing testified that he never felt that he was involved in an act of prostitution. Prosecutors say Kaplan used the lure of sex to attract professional athletes and celebrities while cheating customers to funnel cash to New York's Gambino crime family. He and six others are charged with obstruction of justice, credit card fraud, loan sharking and other charges. The trial began with jury selection in late April. Sicignano testified against Kaplan and the others as part of a plea agreement. Ewing said his second Gold Club sexual encounter was in 1997 or 1998. He said either Kaplan or Sicignano told the women to ``go ahead and take care of him.'' The 7-foot center said the two sat beside him while the dancers performed oral sex on him. Ewing said the men also offered to have a dancer accompany him to his hotel for sex, but he declined. He testified for about 25 minutes and then immediately left the courthouse. The second time he went to the club, Ewing said he was with his former Knicks teammates, including Larry Johnson, John Starks and Charles Oakley. He did not testify about any other players having sex with dancers. "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out, in a good cause, and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." -Vince Lombardi | ||||
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