Patrick Ewing said his two Olympic gold medals were either lost during one of the many times he moved, or they were stolen when somebody broke into one of his houses.
Ewing, speaking on The Dan Patrick Show on Tuesday, said he then called now-USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo, who arranged for Ewing to receive replacement medals.
That’s not uncommon when Olympic medals go missing (such as what happened to perhaps the most famous Olympian, Muhammad Ali).
“This is the first time I really spoke about it,” Ewing said.