Patrick Ewing might be the greatest Jamaican-American basketball player of all-time. Unfortunately, Ewing was never able to reach the pinnacle of achieving an NBA title throughout his eighteen-year tenure in the NBA after being picked first overall in the 1985 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks. However, Ewing did appear in both the 1994 and 1999 NBA Finals where his Knicks teams couldn't defeat the Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs.
The 7'0" center averaged 21 points throughout his career and received NBA All-Star honors eleven times as well. He's one of the most dominant and skilled big men to ever grace the professional hardwood and has worked in the coaching realm of the NBA. Ewing was cut loose from his coaching gig with the Charlotte Hornets in 2017 and currently coaches his NCAA alma mater in Georgetown.