It’s perfect time for Knicks fans to dream of elusive NBA title

This is the easy time. This is the fun time. For NBA fans, the latter half of July is a time to check in on the summer league games from Vegas, a time to speculate about final pieces to training-camp rosters, to cue up your favorite games from the previous year on YouTube, and to allow the baseball portion of your sporting soul to experience all the stress.

For Knicks fans, it means taking an early peek at Cam Payne’s impossible-to-duplicate jumper — and maybe remembering how often it improbably went in late in that series with the Sixers last year. It means daily progress reports on Tyler Kolek — it’s a matter of time before we call him “Jalen Junior” around here — and Pacome Dadiet.

Sure: it meant reading Stef Bondy’s dispatch in Wednesday’s Post about Isaiah Hartenstein legit pondering the possibility of taking a pay cut to stay a Knick, and maybe wanting to curse all things Oklahoman …

(Try this:

“Oooooooh!-klahoma …

“Where the Thunder scooped up Hartenstein