Dan Patrick: “Good morning. How are you today?”
Patrick Ewing: “I’m doing well Dan…of course I have a heavy heart. We lost a great man, a great friend, a great role model, a father figure. He was my second dad. I’m definitely feeling that pain but also, I think we should celebrate his life and the things that he had accomplished. He wasn’t just a basketball coach. He stood for something. He stood for all the racial injustice things that have been going on in this country. He’s been fighting that fight for his entire life. I think we need to celebrate, and I need to celebrate his accomplishments instead of mourning our loss.”
Dan Patrick: “What role did he take in you taking the Georgetown job?”
Patrick Ewing: “Huge! He was a huge part…His son had just been let go and…a couple days later, him calling me and telling me you need to try to apply for this job…His son had just been fired and he told me, ‘Look, we need to have one of our own in the job.’”
Listen to NBA Hall of Famer and Georgetown basketball legend and now-Hoyas head coach Patrick Ewing discuss the death of college basketball icon John Thompson, who spent 27 memorable years at Georgetown from 1966-1999, winning 596 games, and making three Final Fours - ALL with Ewing (1982, 1984, 1985).
Ewing and Thompson's Hoyas won the 1984 National Championship over Hakeem Olajuwon's Houston Cougars team.
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