NEW YORK — He was still a block away, but already he could see it in the distance, a swarm of red jerseys surrounding his sports bar.

Marc Jean, a lifelong New York Knicks fan, watches every game at FancyFree, an airy Brooklyn bar on a bustling corner a few blocks from Barclays Center, home, mostly, to the WNBA’s Liberty. Jean is 40, which means for most of his life, seats at a Knicks bar have not been hard to come by. But Tuesday was Tuesday.