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The Washington Wizards announced today the following coaching staff updates: · Adam Caporn, Wizards lead assistant · Patrick Ewing, Wizards assistant coach · Cody Toppert, Wizards assistant coach · Steve Clifford, Wizards coaching advisor · Tevon Saddler, Capital City Go-Go head coach/Wizards assistant coach · T.J. Sorrentine, Las Vegas Summer League head coach
Shams Charania: Georgetown and New York Knicks legend Patrick Ewing has agreed to become an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards and head coach Brian Keefe, sources tell ESPN. Ewing has been in an Ambassador role with the Knicks and now returns on the coaching sidelines in D.C.
Ian Begley: SNY sources: Hall of Famer and Knick great Patrick Ewing is in talks with the Wizards to join the club’s coaching staff. Ewing has been an advisor and Basketball Ambassador with the Knicks for the past two seasons, was with the team throughout its 2026 title run.
Charles Oakley: "Patrick (Ewing) always been like that. He never stood up for nobody. Even when they offered him the D-League job, I said something. And the coldest thing out of this all, I took a case for Patrick on an airplane. Put that out there. I took a case from him. Ask any teammate, Chris Childs, Charles, Allen, John, they might not say nothing, but I took a case to better his self. And this happened to me, he don't say nothing."
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Andrew Jerell Jones: Patrick Ewing on these New York Knicks ending the 53 year NBA title drought: “I’m just blessed to be able to witness Jalen Brunson do what he was able to do tonight.” “This is a dream come true. I can finally say that I’m part of a championship team.” @TWDTV1
JR Smith: I did not grow up a Knicks fan. I hated the Knicks. I did not like Patrick Ewing. I did not like John Starks. I didn't like anything about the Knicks. I was a Bulls fan. I was a Michael Jordan fan. Michael Jordan is my GOAT. That's it. And my agent calls me and he gives he gives me these list of teams. Only thing I kept bringing me back was playing with Chris Paul. He's going to pass the ball. I'm going to be in a great situation. They play fast. They play up and down. My type of style. I tell him, all right. I'm going to the Clippers. He's like, all right. I get on a flight, land in LA. God rest in peace, Mark Warkentien. He is the first person I see. I was with him in Denver. He's like, "Kid, what are you doing?" I was like, I'm going to LA. He was like, "You really want to do that?" And had this conversation. I'm like, okay. Go to the hotel, go to sleep. I wake up. I said, "I'm going to New York." And my dad was the first person I told cuz my dad was a Knicks fan.
JR Smith: "I did not grow up a Knicks fan. I hated the Knicks. I did not like Patrick Ewing. I did not like John Starks. I didn't like anything about the Knicks. I was a Bulls fan. I was a Michael Jordan fan. Michael Jordan is my GOAT."
Also seen at the home game the Knicks lost were billionaire Jets owner Woody Johnson, “Marty Supreme” director Josh Safdie, Woody Allen, President Trump, Fat Joe, Mayor Mamdani, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez Eli Manning, Rick Pitino, Francisco Lindor, Patrick Ewing, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Allan Houston, John Franco, Juan Soto, Todd Zeile and hockey stars Jonathan Quick, Adam Fox and Vincent Trocheck.
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Justin Russo: Victor Wembanyama finished with 32 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 blocks in Game 3. He joins Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing as the only players to do that in a postseason game at Madison Square Garden since blocks first became official in 1973-74.
Starks said that during the 2023-24 season, Knicks owner James Dolan began reserving 14 courtside baseline seats for former players. The act started to get attention on TV during the 2025 Eastern Conference finals when the Knicks played the Indiana Pacers, and former Knicks such as Starks, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Allan Houston, Stephon Marbury and others were seen cheering enthusiastically.
“For one, I don’t think nobody else could do it,” former Knicks All-Star Carmelo Anthony, who starred for New York from 2011-17, told Andscape. “I haven’t seen no other organization do that. It’s only in New York where I’ve seen them bring back the legends of the game. Once a Knick, always a Knick. Everybody is sitting there. You got Clyde at the table calling the game. P.E. [Patrick Ewing] to Starks to my generation watching the new generation. It’s super fun. “You become a fan. You become a fan of the [former Knicks]. You become a fan of Bernard King sitting next to Pat and talking about when he used to play, sitting next to [Stephon] Marbury talking about when he used to play. That camaraderie. You can’t buy that.”
Back in the early 1980s, when the NBA was still trying to regain its footing after falling out of favor with large swaths of the American sporting public during the ’70s, the league didn’t have much on which to hang its hat. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were just at the beginning of their pro careers. Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing were in college. The NBA’s championship series was still being shown on tape delay — 11:30 p.m. ET, then-Johnny Carson time — to the East Coast of the United States. And no one knew what to call the series.