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Ewing, Hakeem headline 2008 Naismith Hall of Fame class
Associated Press

Updated: April 7, 2008, 1:00 PM ET

SAN ANTONIO -- Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, coach Pat Riley and four others have been elected to basketball's Hall of Fame.

Also among the Class of 2008 are Adrian Dantley, coach Cathy Rush, broadcaster Dick Vitale and NBA team owner Bill Davidson.

The announcement was made Monday in San Antonio, site of the men's Final Four.

Induction is Sept. 4-6 in Springfield, Mass., home of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

That's great news. Patrick made the Knicks a winning team for most of his years here. I wish the front office could have gotten him another star, so we could have gone all the way, but we did have good years with him.

In this era of only bad news for Knicks fans, this is a nice ray of light. It's real nice to see Patrick where he belongs now, and if he comes to New York to be a big man coach (For anyone) I'd be absolutely exstatic.

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Posted by Elite:

envy why would u post some of those pics??? the pippen? honestly thats disrespectful.. not funny

It's not ment to be disrespectful......thats a famous pic of Pat Rwing.......if anything it shows the battles Ewing went through. Pippen put everything he had in this dunk and he let it out on the finish by standing over him and taunting him. Oakley or somebody I remember immediately pushed off Pippen and Ewing also pushed Pippens legs and took exception. It's an awesome pic.

Man, watching old clips depresses me sometimes. The knicks, hell the whole nba will never be as good as it was back then. Congrats #33.

Congrats to Patrick for his induction to the HOF today!

We never won the title, but we were amongst the best in the NBA during most of his prime. Sure, Hakeem was a better player, but as the Ewing-apologist story goes, we never had a 2nd or 3rd option comparable to title winning teams.

For as good as Starks was even Cassell was a better clutch performer, then tack on Robert Horry's clutch shooting and you have two titles to the Rockets. If we had managed to get to Phoenix in 1993 I think we had match ups, like Ewing on Mark West, that we could have exploited enough to win.

The one time we get to the Finals our best player is not the best or able to dominate at his position. Of course, the Bulls were just a machine, and Jordan-Pippen + clutch role players made them pretty much unbeatable, so to think of as well as we did given the team we had I think there is little to be ashamed of but considering the expectations it's hard to forget that.

I wasn't really following the Knicks when Ewing was drafted, so I didn't have that same feeling. I heard it later from the media and other fans, but I didn't really start watching until 1988, when we were swept by the Celtics. I remember on the old, paltry NY Times sports page they used to have a little cartoon in the top corner.

After the Knicks either lost in the first round to Boston 3-0, or were down 2-0, there was one of the Celtics either sweeping or some kind of action towards the Knicks. That was one of my first memories of the team, although I used to watch the games on channel 9, along with Ranger games, when SportsChannel used to play a few games a year off of cable (which I didn't have). It was in 1988-89 that I really started to follow more, with Pitino in charge.

Anyway, Ewing was pretty much one of my sports heroes growing up, and I have probably mentioned this on the old NY Times forum, but after we lost to Indiana in 1995 I wrote a poem of support for Ewing. That was major heartbreak, man, remembering that was one bad day.

Black Hole offense sure, but a Warrior too.

Posted by djsunyc:

I still he deserved a foul call there

IT'S A EWING DOING!!!!! MORE FIYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!


[Edited by - buddapaw on 04-07-2008 1:07 PM]