He made one tall order — and it got him thrown out.
A Knicks fan is crying foul after he booked a penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton for Game 4 of the NBA Finals — but was allegedly kicked out of the $20,000 hotel room because of a demand from San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama.
Pennsylvanian Phil Godlewski was with a party of six, who spent a total of $750,000 on tickets to Wednesday’s game — and rented out one of the two penthouse suites on the 41st floor of the Ritz-Carlton on West 28th Street in NoMad.
The Scranton entrepreneur — who was with his 11 and 9-year-old sons and his friend Ron Pavalonis, and his son — wasn’t told that Wemby was staying in the other penthouse suite.
When Pavalonis was entering his room around 5 p.m., he said he saw Wemby exiting his own suite — presumably on his way to Madison Square Garden, and greeted the Spurs star player.
“I hear Ronnie say five words. That’s all he said. ‘Good luck tonight, big guy,’” Godlewski, 43, told The Post.
Just 10 minutes later, they got a knock on the door from the hotel’s director of rooms operations, Jean Choi — which they did not hear since their room was so big.
So Choi — along with three men in black suits — just let themselves in, Godlewski claimed.
“They opened the door illegally, and they actually entered the vestibule area. And she’s yelling from within the room, ‘Mr. Godlewski!’ I finally hear her and walk to the door and that’s when she told me, ‘I’m sorry, but you guys are going to have to leave the premises.’”
“I said, ‘What? Why?’ And she said, ‘Because we were told you were harassing and waiting for the players to exit their rooms.’”
Godlewski insisted Choi check the security cameras to confirm their party did nothing wrong — but she allegedly told him there were no cameras on that floor.
“And that was a lie because I literally look up, and there’s a camera right over her head in the hallway,” said Godlewski, who got the whole interaction with the hotel on camera and said he has already contacted a lawyer.
“She was just trying to just get us the heck out of there. She didn’t care what actually happened. She didn’t care how it happened. All she cared about was Victor complained to his security team.”
While Godlewski said he understood the hotel taking precautions — since a Spurs fan was assaulted following Game 3, during which Wemby also shoved Jalen Brunson, becoming the city’s No. 1 nemesis — he couldn’t comprehend why the hotel didn’t just have the Spurs buy out the entire building for the night.
“Not only did they not block out the hotel, but they put us on the same frigging floor as Victor Wembanyama,” he said.
“What sense does that make? If you don’t want anyone around the Spurs, especially Victor, don’t book the penthouse directly next to him. It was a huge mistake on their part.”
When they checked in, they were never told they would be staying on the same floor at Wemby, or given any warning not to speak to him.
“If they had said, ‘Listen, you’re staying on the same floor as one of the players. You cannot engage with the player. You have to stay in your room until he leaves the premises, we would have been like, ‘OK, no problem.’”
The Ritz-Carlton and Wembanyama’s agent did not reply to The Post’s requests for comment.
Godlewski ended up booking the Trump International on Central Park West for $3,000, so actually saved $17,000.
But the damage is already done.
“My 11-year-old was a huge Wemby fan. He was devastated and couldn’t believe one of his heroes could do this to people. As we were in the car going to the Garden, he said, ‘Dad, when we get home, can I burn my Wemby jerseys?’” said Godlewski, whose son already burned his $3,500 autographed one.
Godlewski said he is waiting for an apology from Wemby, and called the Spurs Game 4 loss later that evening a silver lining.
“It was complete instant karma,” he said.
“You will get what comes to you. And that’s exactly what happened that night.”