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Patrick Ewing Biography

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Name: Patrick Ewing
Birth Date: August 5, 1962
Place of Birth: Kingston, Jamaica
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Basketball Player

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Although most basketball players start playing at an early age, Patrick Ewing began playing basketball in high school. Amazingly, by the time he reached his senior year, he had become the best high school player in the country. Overcoming reading and speech problems, Ewing became a solid student and earned his degree from Georgetown University, where he also became the most dominating college basketball player in the United States. Having estabished himself as one of the NBA's 50 All-Time Greatest Players, Ewing has only one major basketball goal he hopes to achieve: winning an NBA world championship.

Patrick Aloysius Ewing was born August 5, 1962, in Kingston, Jamaica. He was the fifth child in the family of seven children of Carl and Dorothy Ewing. His father was a mechanic in Kingston. Ewing liked to draw when he was young and wanted to become a professional artist. His mother came to the United States in 1971 and worked at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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