{"id":744680,"date":"2026-07-05T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744680\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:04:12","slug":"report-wizards-add-nba-legend-patrick-ewing-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744680\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Wizards add NBA legend Patrick Ewing to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Wizards have hired NBA legend Patrick Ewing to a position on their coaching staff, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported Saturday. This is the second time that Ewing has spent time with he Wizards<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">SNY\u2019s Ian Begley <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IanBegley\/status\/2073525948876570801?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">first reported the talks <\/a>between Ewing and Washington before multiple outlets confirmed the hiring on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ewing spent the last two seasons as an advisor and basketball ambassador with the New York Knicks, notably joining them on their NBA Finals run this year. The 11-time NBA All-Star and Hall of Famer began his coaching career with the Wizards as an assistant coach during the 2002-03 season before stints with the Houston Rockets (2003-2006), Orlando Magic (2007-2012) and Charlotte Hornets (2013-2017).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ewing then became Georgetown\u2019s men\u2019s basketball head coach, his alma mater that he led to the 1984 national championship, from 2017-2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ewing ranks 28th in NBA history in career points (24,815), 26th in career rebounds (11,607) and seventh in career blocks (2,894). He\u2019s the Knicks\u2019 all-time leader in games played, points, rebounds, field goals made, steals and blocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Steve Clifford, who boasts 10 years of NBA head coaching experience, is joining Washington\u2019s staff in an advisory role, ESPN reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Clifford, 64, coached alongside Ewing in Orlando and hired Ewing to his staff in Charlotte. He had spent the previous two seasons in advisory roles for the Phoenix Suns and Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards have hired NBA legend Patrick Ewing to a position on their coaching staff, ESPN\u2019s Shams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99,306605],"class_list":["post-744680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-washington-wizards-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}