Ewing is considered by most to be the greatest player in New York Knicks history. However, he isn’t often mentioned in the GOAT conversation because he lost twice in the NBA Finals and couldn’t win a ring during the Michael Jordan era.
What about the Golden State Warriors instead. For years they struggled to compete at the highest level and lost countless fans to the Los Angeles Lakers until the era of the Splash Brothers restored order and made them one of the greatest powers in the NBA.
We didn’t know things could have been completely different, as the Warriors and Ewing could have helped each other during the “Run TMC” era. Apparently, in the late 1980s, Ewing was actually considering leaving the Big Apple to join the Warriors, as he recently told Ryan Hollins on his Podcast:
“I was thinking of Golden State. Me, Chris Mullin, Mitch Richmond, Tim Hardaway. I thought about doing it but it didn’t work, so I stayed in New York”, Ewing confessed.