Patrick Ewing Jr.

Patrick Aloysius Ewing, Jr. ( born May 20, 1984 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American professional basketball player who plays but for the Jamaican national team. His father is Patrick Ewing, former center of the New York Knicks, two -time Olympic champion and member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

College

Ewing Jr. came forward in May 2003 to study at the Indiana University, whose basketball team Hoosiers are among the most successful teams in the major U.S. College Football National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). In 2005 he then moved to the Georgetown University in Washington DC. According to the NCAA rules he had to because of the university change the complete season 2005/ 06 expose, in which he was allowed to attend no championship games for the college team Hoyas. Ewing Jr. then helped the Hoyas jersey number 33, which had already taken his father at this high school team. The future NBA All-Star Alonzo Mourning had previously been the last player, who had played with this number at the Hoyas. Curiously, Ewing Jr. was at the Hoyas of John Thompson III. trained, the son of the coach, who won with Ewing's father the only NCAA championship in 1984 for the Hoyas. 2007 came to the Final Four tournament this national finals, where, however, in the semifinals defeated the Buckeyes of Ohio State University. Contrast, would retire a year later from surprise in the second round; instead allowed Ewing Jr. in his final college season in 2008 to participate in the run up to the Final Four tournament in San Antonio at least at the " NCAA Slam Dunk Contest".

Professional career

After Ewing Jr. was selected in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings, he finally came across a player swap with the Houston Rockets to the New York Knicks, for which his father had played almost his entire career. Despite a satisfactory performance in the last preseason game, where he at least in the last quarter showed a strong performance, Ewing Jr. has been deleted as one of the last players before the season starts from the final season squad. Mid-December 2008, therefore, signed Ewing Jr. at the Reno Bighorns in the NBA Development League (D - League) a contract and played for this " farm team " for the next three seasons. End of March 2011 Ewing Jr. finally got a first ten-day contract by a club in the NBA. The New Orleans Hornets picked Ewing Jr. in the most heavily doped professional league high and extended his contract until the end of season. For the following season Ewing Jr. had but back in the D -League and played for the Skyforce from Sioux Falls.

After Ewing's prospects were dropped on a long-term NBA contract to a minimum, he joined the BBL season 2012/13 in Germany and was awarded a contract with the Telekom Baskets Bonn of the National Basketball League. In December 2012, the contract between Telekom Baskets and Ewing was disbanded early after Ewing was unable to fulfill the expectations placed in him. In 12 games Ewing scored an average of 11.5 points and 6.1 rebounds per game picked for Baskets from Bonn. In January 2013, Ewing signed a contract with Blancos de Rueda Valladolid in the Spanish ACB League. The contract was to run until end of season and mid- March 2013 was terminated prematurely. For Valladolid Ewing Jr. came in 9 games at 4.3 points and 1.3 rebounds per game.

The summer of 2013 spent Ewing in the U.S. and ran in the NBA Summer League for the team of the Charlotte Bobcats on. For the 2013/14 season, Ewing signed a contract then in the Greek A1 Ethniki the successor club of AS Trikala 2000.

National

Ewing Jr. won with the Jamaican national basketball team at the Central American Cup 2012 Centro Basket bronze. He then played a year later at the premiere of the Jamaican national team in the Continental Finals Americas Championship 2013 for the selection in which you defeated the previous runner-up Brazil in the first round and the second round reached in the least able to win against the defending champion and Olympic Fourth Argentina succeeded.

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