Patrick Ewing Jr. joins Dan Boyce on the Aussie Hoopla podcast to discuss why he’s come to Australia to coach in the NBL1, his time playing in the NBA, and, of course, growing up with an NBA legend as a father.
As part of the coaching staff at South West Metro in the NBL1 North, he’s also helping to develop Aussie NBA prospect Roman Siulepa. He gives his thoughts on what he can bring to the NBL this season as Next Star and his potential NBA future.
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Ewing played eight seasons as a pro, playing the 2010-11 NBA season with New Orleans.
Ewing also spent four seasons (2008-12) in the NBA D-League, where he was an all-star in 2011, as well as three years (2012-15) playing professionally in some of the top European leagues, including Germany-BBL, Spain-Liga Endesa, Greece A-1 and Qatar D-1.
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Podcast Topics include…
- How did Patrick end up coaching in Australia (2:00)
- Thoughts on the NBA chances of NBL Next Star Roman Siulepa (4:00)
- Learning from coach Aja Parham-Ammar, former professional WNBA player and the first woman to coach a men’s NBL1 team (10:00)
- Growing up as the son of NBA legend Patrick Ewing and how it shaped him as a person (13:00)
- The relationship between Michael Jordan and Patrick’s dad (17:00)
- Stories from how all of the kids of the 1992 Dream Team spent their time at the Olympics (19:00)
- How his father tried to push him away from basketball as a child (22:00)
- Beginning his college basketball career with Indiana (24:00)
- Transferring to Georgetown and playing for the same school as his father (27:00)
- Fighting to make an NBA roster (37:00)
- Playing in his first NBA game and accomplishing a dream (42:00)
- How he almost played in the NBL and when he knew it was time to hang up the boots and move into coaching (47:00)
- The highlights of his career and biggest learning moments (51:00)
All of this and a whole lot more…