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This was long after the cheering had stopped, long after Patrick Ewing’s quest to add a third championship banner to the rafters at Madison Square Garden had ended. Ewing sat in the basketball office at Georgetown University and pointed to a replica plaque on one of the walls.

“NCAA Men’s Basketball Champions 1984,” it read.

Ewing shook his head.

“The O’Brien trophy is a nicer trophy,” Ewing said, referring to the gold basketball awarded the winner of the NBA championship. “I would give anything — anything — to have been a part of the team that brought that trophy to New York. My teammates and I, we gave an awful lot of blood trying.”