Patrick Ewing Jr.

To start off my random player of the day, I would first like to apologize for the title of my blog, not accurately reflecting the content of it. As of tomorrow, I will attempt to do my best of posting sports and not sports relating topics to the best of my abilities.

Patrick Ewing. Perhaps one of the greatest NBA centers of all time. Well, like a majority of human beings, he has children. One of them is Patrick Ewing Jr. He was drafted by the Sacramento Kings in the 2008 NBA draft, then traded to the Houston Rockets in the Ron Artest deal (which really helped the Rockets chances of advancing to the next round of the playoffs, but it all really depends on Yao's health), then recently was just traded to his father's team, the New York Knicks.
Ewing Jr. has a chance of making the team, and probably will as he will most likely become a fan favorite, and possibly the organization's favorite. The New York Knicks did not trade for Ewing Jr. to better the team, I think that they did this trade just for the heck of it. They only had to trade away draft rights of a basketball player who might never play in the NBA. By this, you can tell the Houston Rockets were in no means "desperate" to keep Ewing Jr.
But, this little part of me wants Ewing Jr. to not only make the team, but to actually play and succeed. Maybe not to the extent of his father, but at least to the success of a solid role player. I feel this way because it must be difficult being a professional athlete whose father/mother was exceptional at that sport, while they might not be exceptionally as their parent was.
There are many other notable athletes who probably faced some of the same pressures as Ewing Jr. at one point in their lives are:

Jeffrey and Marcus Jordan (College and High School Basketball) - Sons of MJ
Ken Griffey Jr. (MLB) - Son of Ken Griffey
Barry Bonds (MLB) - Son Bobby Bonds
Stephen Curry (College Basketball) - Son Dell Curry
Brett Hull (NHL) - Son of Bobby Hull
Mike Dunleavy Jr. (NBA) - Son of Mike Dunleavy
Laila Ali (Boxing) - Daughert of Cassius Clay or otherwise known as, Muhammad Ali
Moises Alou (MLB) - Son of Felipe Alou
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Nascar) - Son of Dale Earnhardt
Eli and Peyton Manning (NFL) - Sons of Peyton Manning

Oh and did you know, Denzel Washington (the actor) has a son playing in the NFL name John David Washington Jr.?