Bring back Patrick Ewing: Georgetown centers never die
Perhaps it’s time for some NBA team in need of a big body to see if Patrick Ewing wants to get in a few runs. Because at this stage, it appears that John Thompson’s Georgetown centers are missing an off switch. Thus far in the 2006-07 campaign, Alonzo Mourning (36) and Dikembe Mutombo (40) have made serious contributions to keeping the Miami Heat and Houston Rockets in the NBA’s playoff chase, as they take up for the injured Shaquille O’Neal and Yao Ming.
Numbers for January
Mourning: 12.1 ppg, 7 rpg, 3.3 bpg
Mutombo: 6.1 ppg, 13.9 rpg, 1.8 bpg
Of course, you don’t want to start questioning Mutombo about whether he’s older than his listed age, but aside from that, these two old-school Hoyas are showing the league that they still have plenty of game left and are two of the nicer stories in the current NBA campaign.
–WKW