As the associate head coach of the Charlotte Hornets, Patrick Ewing hasn’t received his shot at a head coaching gig and gives his take on players going straight from the court to the sideline as coach. “It’s all about having the opportunity,” Ewing says. “They had people who believed in them and gave them the opportunity to succeed or fail.”

Though it may seem absurd the NBA has a bias against hiring tall coaches, Ewing believes there to be from his experiences in that roll. “When people think of point guards, they think they’re the leader of the team, they’re the floor general," Ewing explains to Dan Patrick. "But the center is also the floor general, too. Just the floor general on the defensive side of the basketball.”