In the midst of the current social climate, Patrick Ewing spoke with The Athletic’s Dana O’Neill about his duties to teach based on the discrimination and hatred he’s witnessed in his career.
The article is well worth reading (and subscribing, I believe there are free trials and discounts right now).
- “I was young,’’ he told The Athletic on Friday. “There’s a lot of different things that happened, things I don’t want to get into.’’
- He always said that he used the racist taunts as fuel, that he put his head down and let his play do the talking.