Patrick Ewing

He doesn't need to play a dependent position.

He can bring it down.

He can score.

He rebounds.

He does all the things that.

in this era that bigs need to do and you know I'm not going to sit here and say he is the greatest player of the greatest big of all time because there was a lot of great bigs Keem was a great big in my era Kareem before that so there's a you know Shaq you got to talk about Shaq and all those guys but

You know, he's definitely special.

I would have loved to have tried to compete against him to see, you know, how I would fare against that talented young man.

I had the opportunity to meet him this year when we played in Denver.

I went up to him and told him that, you know, I love what he's doing, continue to do it, and he's a very special player.

Hey, I'm going to tell you a story.

So we're getting ready.

And Rick Pitino was our coach at this time.

And we are getting ready to face the Lakers.

And I'm like, you know, Rick was like, no, we're not going to double Kareem.

He's getting older.

And I'm like, Rick, he may be getting older, but he is still good.

So Kareem got heated.

He got hot.

And I don't care what I did.