PAINT THE TOWN RANGERS BLUE, LEBRON IS STILL THE KING & RICHARD LEWIS WILL BE MISSED …

The Rangers are the best team in town. It has been a long time since they were the best team in town, 10 years ago, back when they made that run to the Stanley Cup finals before losing a tough, tough series to the Los Angeles Kings.

The Knicks have fallen back lately, in what has been such an entertaining winter season at the Garden.

The Rangers, though, they just keep coming.

The Yankees fell down last year, the Mets fell down, the Jets fell down, the Giants fell down.

You can’t even find the Brooklyn Nets.

There was, of course, another time when the Rangers were the best team in town, and famously.

Another year that ended with a “4.”

That would be 1994. l When can I call off the prayer vigil for Scott Boras’ remaining unsigned clients?

l LeBron had another one of those games and one of those nights this week, bringing the Lakers all the way back against the Clippers, when he clearly forgot what year it is.

Then he came back and did it again the next night against the Wizards, when the Lakers won in overtime.

And reminded everybody again that as hot a property as people still seem to think the NBA is, the league is still at its best and most compelling when he’s in the gym.

I love Steph Curry, don’t get me wrong.

And knew he we would show up the way he did at the Garden this week, in what felt like a one-nightonly New York performance against the Knicks.

Curry has won as many titles as LeBron has.

It doesn’t change that LeBron, when he’s playing the way he’s been playing lately, really is still The King.

l Put me down as someone who always thought that bigtime college athletes always deserved to share in the riches they were bringing in for their schools, and their sports.

But the only difference between the current world of college sports and the old one we’re seeing now is that now it’s not just the schools and the networks acting like pigs. l By the way?

As soon as they take the playoffs to 12 teams, they’re already talking about 14 and if you think they’re going to stop there, send up a flare.

The transfer portal has turned college football especially into a traveling circus, and created a system where coaches don’t just have to recruit players out of high school, they have to recruit players they’ve already recruited, every single year.

l Richard Lewis, who died the other day, was, to use a phrase he liked, one “amazing cat.”

He and Larry David, with whom Richard appeared in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” were born three days apart in the same Brooklyn hospital, and were dear and lifelong friends.

Richard was a terrific stand-up comic, he was a terrific actor.

He got sober more than 30 years ago, would end up battling Parkinson’s with grace.

And was so thoroughly and completely enjoying the second — or third, or fourth — act that he got with “Curb.”

Playing a part he was born to play.

Himself.

He will be missed.