Why would Patrick Ewing be a LOCK for the HoF?

This point is now moo since Ewing got into the Hall of Fame yesterday, but I read yesterday on ESPN that he was a "Lock" for the Hall before the vote came out. This was the email I sent to Sportsbyfletch contributor Paul Mac...(And before you comment that the word is actually "Moot," I was referencing the Friends episode where Joey explained it as Moo, like a cow's opinion and how it doesn't matter. It's Moo. If you didn't get the reference, maybe you shouldn't be reading my blogs. Or better yet, you SHOULD be reading them even more, so you can collect these pop culture references and use them in your everyday life and impress you friends.)

He never won a title. He never won an MVP. He took his team to the NBA finals where they lost to the Rockets and he was OUTPLAYED by a REAL Hall Of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon. Ewing even missed a potential game-winning shot in one of those games if I recall.

He was beaten time after time by first the Celtics, then the Pistons, then the Bulls, then the Pacers then the Bulls and the Heat. Several times They weren't even in the Conference Finals Patrick led them to defeat. Usually they lost to the Bulls or Pacers before the Eastern Conference Finals rolled around.

In fact, NY's best shot at a title came after he was out in 1999 and Spree and Allan Houston and Co nearly shot the Knicks to the title.

Then Ewing went to Seattle and Orlando. He was a joke.


A Hall of Famer? For what? An above average career? Give me a break. I'd take David Robinson over him. I'd take Hakeem over him. Laimbeer, Shaq OR Zo.

Every center we went up against in the playoffs, he was not as good as, except for Rik Smits and the Bulls guys (Cartwright, Wennington, Perdue, Longley) and even
then his team lost. He was always undone by another team's guard because THAT guy (RMiller or Isiah or JORDAN) would always be the better guy on the floor.
For being his team's best player, he could NEVER take them to the promised land that is an NBA championship.

A lock hall of famer? I think not. But he'll get in because he played for the Knicks. If he had been a Cleveland Cavalier, we wouldn't even be talking about this

And sure enough that NEW YORK MEDIA got their boy elected to the Hall. Good job Patrick. Way to mediocre yourself in. I don't reward that type of thing, but hey, the NBA HoF voters do. Congrats!