Patrick Ewing

He was a skilled big.

He was, you know, Victor's height.

He was 7'4".

He wanted to be a perimeter big.

But in our era, people looked down on that.

But I thought that this era would have embraced him and embraced his abilities, which is what they're doing with Victor.

And Victor is a special young man.

Every time I watch him play, I see how special that he is.

Well, you know, like I said, back in those era, they wanted us to be back to the basket, dunking it.

Even when I first got to New York, I remember talking to Dickie McGuire, and he said the exact same thing.

He's like, Patrick, I never knew you could shoot.

And Dickie was...

was, you know, the head scout for the Knicks for a lot of years.

His numbers in the Raptors, next to mine, I do have to say, next to mine.

But he just said, you know, I really never thought that you could shoot.

I thought all you could do was block shots and dunk.

Well, I say, you know, Dick, you know, the Big John was like, son, get your butt in the post.

Work on the, you know, when you go to the NBA, then you can show them the rest of your game.

But

You know, I always could shoot.