That little kid is with Patrick every step.” “And it’s not easy for a lot of men, no matter how much they love their sons, to show the kind of affection and attention that Patrick has shown. “He has shown nothing but affection for little Patrick,” said Georgetown Coach John Thompson, who has become a sort of adoptive grandfather. That last statement is obvious to most anyone who has seen the two together, whether in Boston, where Stanford lives, in Georgetown, where Ewing has worked most of the summer, or at the National Zoo, where Ewing took the gang recently. But I want to spend as much time with him as I can. And I really don’t care if he never wants to play basketball. “I don’t want to just support him financially. One of the first things I did was put some money away in a trust fund, so he’ll have money to go to school or whatever he wants to do. “As a matter of fact, immediately after I got out of school and was able to make some money, I started sending his mother money to take care of him.
“There didn’t even need to be a lawsuit as far as I was concerned because there was never any doubt in my mind that I was going to take care of him. “His mother dropped the lawsuit that was filed a while ago,” Ewing said while sitting in Georgetown’s McDonough Arena, with Little Patrick playing nearby. It wasn’t close to the truth, and it got me angry. “It upset me because people were trying to portray me as some kind of bad guy who was trying to shirk his responsibilities,” Ewing said. Being painted as an irresponsible father, however, angered him. Ewing, who is not married to the child’s mother, Sharon Stanford, was being sued by her for child support.Īnd once again, one of basketball’s most private major figures was in the center of controversy.Įwing has had objects thrown at him, demeaning signs held high in school arenas, and been criticized for everything from his style of play to the very fact that he was accepted at Georgetown five years ago.īut not much of it bothered Ewing. Little Patrick, as he is most often called, became a big topic of conversation more than a year ago when a reporter who visited Ewing’s family home in Boston found a birth certificate and made the discovery public. I’ve taken them to the zoo, but mostly I’ve just been trying to spend time with them, listen to them, talk with them.”įor the first time, Ewing chose to discuss publicly his relationship with his son and other details of his post-Georgetown personal life. “But as a dad, I’ve been hanging in there. “I have three nephews and nieces down here (Washington) with me for a while (14, 12 and 10 years old) and I’ve let them baby-sit some and he drives them crazy,” Ewing said. In between, he has assumed a fatherly role not only with his own son, but two nephews and one niece. He has been diligently rehabilitating his right knee after recent arthroscopic knee surgery and taking a finance course at Georgetown. This has been a summer of responsibility for Patrick Ewing Sr. If you do not see a song in our list please email ( us the Artist and Song Title, and we will purchase the song for you to sing at one of our next shows.“No, you’re not, boy.
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