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New York Sports: Best player from each team to never win a championship

By John Carroll Jr.

EXCHANGE PLACE, NJ - JANUARY 06: Ice floats along the Hudson River as the skyline of New York City and One world Trade Center are seen during freeze temperatures on January 06, 2018 in Exchange Place, New Jersey. The extreme conditions suffered across the United States are as a result of the 'bomb cyclone' brought along by Storm Grayson. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
EXCHANGE PLACE, NJ - JANUARY 06: Ice floats along the Hudson River as the skyline of New York City and One world Trade Center are seen during freeze temperatures on January 06, 2018 in Exchange Place, New Jersey. The extreme conditions suffered across the United States are as a result of the 'bomb cyclone' brought along by Storm Grayson. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images) /
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1989: Head coach Rick Pitino of the New York Knicks talks to Patrick Ewing #33 during a Knicks versus Milwaukee Bucks game at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mandatory Credit: Jonathan Daniel /Allsport
1989: Head coach Rick Pitino of the New York Knicks talks to Patrick Ewing #33 during a Knicks versus Milwaukee Bucks game at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mandatory Credit: Jonathan Daniel /Allsport /

Patrick Ewing will always go down as a winner in the game of basketball. There is nowhere on the planet where he was not the best player on the floor. He just never brought a title to New York.

Patrick Ewing is one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Regardless of whatever that standard is for you. He won at the college level, Olympic level, and is a Hall of Famer which is perhaps the ultimate win.

But, Patrick Ewing never won an NBA championship as a member of the New York Knicks so he has to make this list.

Ewing is still a winner in his career. Two different Hall of Fames, a college champion, NBA’s 50th Anniversary all-time team.

But this is the list of the best athletes to never bring a championship to their New York team, Ewing might be the best ever.

He carried the Knicks through the early 90s even making the Finals in 1994. Ewing was a nice piece on the Knicks team that made the Finals again in 1999.

He did a lot in his tenure with the Knicks. As an 11x time all-star, there is nothing else left to be said about that.

His iconic 33 will hang in The Garden forever, as it should it is just a shame, almost unfair that his number in the rafters will never be joined by a championship banner.

Ewing is currently coaching at his alma mater, Georgetown, perhaps his way of bringing a title to New York city is through his coaching career.

But, as a player, he is definitely the best Knick, maybe best sports player ever, to never win a championship in New York.

Honorable mention: J.R. Smith.

I’m kidding, Carmelo Anthony.

Time for the best Net to never bring it home.

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