Patrick Ewing downplays former Knicks teammate Charles Oakley’s comments

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New York Knicks legend Patrick Ewing may have retired in 2002, but his playing days have been in the news quite a bit in the past few weeks. Michael Jordan’s Last Dance documentary has sparked conversations about both Jordan’s Bulls and the teams he had to face in the 90s, including the Knicks.

Ewing’s former teammate Charles Oakley had some harsh words about Ewing. Oakley told Marc Berman of the New York Post,

“Patrick, at the end of the game, he’d get double-teamed, He’d shoot fadeaways on double-teams and that hurt us as a team… “We didn’t make shots and played into their hands. With defense, they played a zone and built a wall. They knew Patrick wasn’t going to pass out of the…