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With a trifecta of coaches around 70 years old rumored as potential candidates, including Phil Jackson, Larry Brown and Jerry Sloan, why wouldn’t the most accomplished basketball player in the New York area over the last 30 years be considered? Mike Greenberg of ESPN Radio’s Mike and Mike asked Ewing that question Friday morning when he appeared on the show to talk about the 2013 NBA Playoffs. “Your guess is as good as mine,” Ewing candidly responded. He continued. “You know what? I’m putting in the work. I’ve been an assistant coach for nine, 10 years. I’m trying to learn my craft, become better at it. I really don’t know. All I can do is just continue to work, continue to knock on doors. Hopefully that one team will decide to give me an opportunity and give me the opportunity to be successful or to fail.” SNY Nets

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Hall of Fame center, Patrick Ewing, 50, is quite aware of the NBA head coaching positions that are opening up by the week and quite frankly, it's frustrating for the big man to see General Mangers not give him a passing thought when considering candidates for their vacancy. “It's just disappointing, but I'm just hoping and waiting somebody gives me a look,” Ewing told CSNNW.com. “I just need an opportunity. All it takes is one team. CSNNW.com

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“I'll interview for any (NBA) head or assistant job out there,” Ewing reiterated. “I do believe I'm ready to be a head guy but I also want to be on a staff somewhere. Hopefully I get a call soon, but you never know. CSNNW.com

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Michael Jordan got married over the weekend, with Tiger Woods, Spike Lee and Patrick Ewing among those attending the NBA Hall of Famer's wedding in Palm Beach, Fla. Jordan married 35-year-old former model Yvette Prieto on Saturday, manager Estee Portnoy told The Associated Press on Sunday. ESPN.com

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Tommy Dee: Wiggy asked Ewing who JR reminded him of without hesitation? "A more athletic Starks"... LOL #tkbtruth Twitter @TommyDeeTKB

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"When I was in Houston we dealt with Yao (Ming) missing good chunks of the season," Thibodeau said. "In Boston we had a situation one year with (Kevin) Garnett where he got hurt in the first game after the All-Star break and we were hopeful that he would be able to come back and try and he was never able to do it. When I was in New York, Patrick (Ewing) missed a majority of the season; I think he got hurt in the 16th game of the year, early December, and he was able to come back during the playoffs. That experience taught me that it's the right thing to do. So if Derrick can come back we want him back." ESPN.com

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With some NBA teams already looking to next season, Ewing is paying attention to the coaching market. He wants to return to an NBA bench, potentially as a head coach. "I'm definitely looking to get back into it," Ewing said. "There will probably be a lot of openings this summer, and hopefully, I'll get an opportunity to interview and possibly land one of these jobs." USA Today Sports

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Josh Newman: The #Knicks announced Patrick Ewing will do some postgame work on MSG on March 20 and March 31. Twitter @Joshua_Newman

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On if championships should count when assessing a player’s career: David Stern: “They do and they should. It doesn’t take it away from someone if he doesn’t have any. There are great players — Patrick Ewing, Bob Lanier, Dominique Wilkins, Bob McAdoo — all 50-greatest material, they don’t have championships. But the reality is that it does count a bit. And Michael has six and Kobe has five and LeBron has one and the world is standing back to see how well he’s gonna do. And we saw that with Larry and Magic, how they made everyone around them better. And Michael wasn’t the Michael of Ahmad Rashad fame and deification until he started winning championships, and that’s just the reality of it.” Sports Radio Interviews

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Ex-Knick Charles Oakley took another shot at Knicks brass for not hiring Patrick Ewing as an assistant coach this past offseason. “You play 15-plus years in New York,’’ Oakley said on 560 WQAM Radio in Florida, “and you get a guy like LaSalle Thompson, LJ [Larry Johnson]. These guys shouldn’t get a job before Patrick, not in New York. I don’t know what’s going on with New York.’’ Ewing, looking for a job after his Orlando stint, sat next to owner James Dolan at last Wednesday’s Knicks game against the Raptors. New York Post

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Sean Grande: Kevin Garnett (24,816) just passed Patrick Ewing for 16th on the @NBA all-time scoring list. Jerry West (25,192) is next. Twitter @SeanGrandePBP

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Ken Berger: If the Nets hired Jeff Van Gundy, coaching industry sources believe strongly he would hire Knicks icon Patrick Ewing as an assistant. Twitter @KBergCBS

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Q. You’ve been an assistant with three N.B.A. teams. If you had a choice of any job in basketball, what would it be? Patrick Ewing. I want to be a head coach in the N.B.A. And I have worked very hard to be ready for that opportunity. New York Times

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Q. Why did you turn down the offer to coach the Knicks’ Development League team? Ewing. I didn’t think it was the right job for me. I want to coach in the N.B.A. New York Times

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Ewing didn’t seem to harbor any bad blood against his former team, which offered him the head coaching job with their D-League affiliate, the Erie Bayhawks. “I still consider myself a Knick, I’m still a part of the organization,” Ewing said. “When the time comes, something will happen. “I still want to coach. Unfortunately we got let go in Orlando, I turned a job down in Atlanta and nothing else was offered.” New York Post

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For those too young to remember, the on-court incident to which Rose refers occurred on March 30, 1999, when Rose's Pacers paid a visit to Manhattan to take on their hated rivals. From Ira Berkow's report in the New York Times: Against the Pacers in Madison Square Garden, [Ewing] went for a rebound and knocked Jalen Rose of Indiana to the floor. This is fairly routine in the National Basketball Associaton and it is also fairly routine that Rose might retaliate in some way. So he did. As Ewing trotted over and past him, Rose tripped him. Ewing stumbled; Rose rose, and Ewing got to his feet and went after Rose, as though to throttle him. [...] As Ewing came closer to Rose, obviously looking for trouble, Rose backpedaled with hands and arms in a kind of rope-a-dope posture, looking for an opening to the bigger Ewing, or an exit. And then the referee, Dick Bavetta, jumped between them and received an accidental whack on the nose from the defensive Rose. [...] ''I wanted to smack him,'' said Ewing after the game, ''but ...'' Yahoo! Sports

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As Rose relates, though, after a later Pacers win over the Knicks in Indiana, Rose got one up on Patrick. "Both teams were flying out to away games. I just so happened to go into the airport," Rose said. "I walk in and I see a silver chest, with blue, and a sticker that says 'Patrick Ewing.' So then the Detroit instincts came out." (NOTE: These instincts seem less regionally specific than inherent-thieving-and-sneaking-based, but we're not from Detroit.) Yahoo! Sports

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"I look to the left, I look to the right, [and] I hit the handles," Rose continues. "I open it — it's a TV with a VCR attached. That was something then. We don't use VHS and VCRs anymore, but to have a TV, with the attachment? And it has his name on it? I was like, 'I'm getting this.'" With the help of a "Detroit homeboy" whom Rose says was "down like four flat tires" for the rip and run, Jalen says he stole Patrick Ewing's TV and kept it in his house for years as a conversation piece and a trophy. Of course he did — like Martha Stewart always says, nothing makes a house a home like a large piece of electronic equipment you stole at the airport. Solid work, Jalen. Looking forward to the next "Story Time" segment, when he shares a hearty laugh at slashing Shawn Bradley's tires or setting Jamal Mashburn's beach house on fire. Yahoo! Sports

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Al Iannazzone: Knicks legend Patrick Ewing is co-hosting today's real training televised Knicks practice on NBA TV. Twitter @Al_Iannazzone

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Alan Hahn: Great stuff by @Rick Kamla getting Melo to respond to Ewing's Dream Team debate with Patrick there: "I'm biased, I have to go with my team." Twitter @alanhahn

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