After covering the Georgetown men’s basketball team for the last two years, I’m honestly a little tired of all the father-son parallels that find their way into almost every article written about Hoya basketball.  I’m front and center on the Thompsons and Ewing bandwagons, but both are getting stale at this point. They’re probably sick of all the talk, too.

But you can’t avoid the fact that Patrick Ewing Jr. is following in his father’s ample footsteps once again, this time to the New York Knicks.  Ewing, who was drafted 43^rd overall by the Sacramento Kings and subsequently traded to the Houston Rockets this summer, will head to New York for the draft rights of Frederick Weis, a center from France.

Here’s what Ewing said in a press release:

Coming to the Knicks, and hopefully being able to contribute, means a lot to me. It has always been my dream to play for this team. My goal is to show the coaches that I can play and do all that I can to help the team win some games.

The fledgling Knicks, one of the worst teams in the NBA over the last few years, will need much more than an athletic, archetypal role-player.  But who knows, maybe he will help make the Knickerbockers a force to reckon with in once more…like his father did.

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