MAHOMES’ MAGIC, THE NBA SLOG AND KYRIE’S EXIT LINE. . .

l While we’re on the subject of QB1s:

If Patrick Mahomes can stay healthy, and keep his legs underneath him with all the running around he does, he might not play in as many Super Bowls as Brady did.

Or even come close to playing in as many. Spending as much time in the open field as he does, it’s impossible to see him playing into his 40s.

But there is both magic, and genius, to what Mahomes is doing for the Chiefs, and he is already on his way to his third Super Bowl.

There is as much magic to what Mahomes does with a ball in his hands as there is with Steph Curry, out there behind the arc.

l Let’s see if we can put our heads together and wonder who might be putting it out there that Kodai Senga, the starting pitcher the Mets just signed out of Japan, might have had a sketchy physical.

And would it be cheeky of me to guess Boras the Agent, everybody’s All-America?

l I keep thinking back to that Eagles-Giants playoff game and believe I’ve identified one basic problem our guys encountered that night in Philly:

The other team was way better. l What good was possibly going to come from Julius Randle dribbling into the corner – and into a LeBron double-team – at the end of regulation against the Lakers the other night at the Facial Recognition Garden?

That’s the way it really ended for the Knicks on what had been such a big night for them, and for Jalen Brunson, right up until then.

l Now that Brady has called it a day, it’s going to be a ton of fun waiting to see what happens with Green Bay’s No. 12, right?

And not just around here. l By the way? It remains a pretty fun fact that Brady and Barry Bonds went to the same high school – Junipero Serra is what it was still called when they went there – in San Mateo, Ca.

l Maybe Adam Silver needs to consider doing something about a terrific game like the Grizzlies and Warriors played the other night needing about a half hour to get through the last three-and-a-half minutes.

Because slogs like that, because of the refs and reviews and what always seem to feel like about fifty timeouts, aren’t all that great for business.

l It is always worth mentioning that as spectacular a talent and winner as Magic Johnson was, he never won a single NBA title without Kareem as his teammate.

I know Kareem was hurt the night Magic scored 42 as a rookie to win his first championship in the pros.

But still.

It so often gets forgotten that Kareem has as many rings as Michael does.

My pal Stanton is right, Kareem doesn’t get into the GOAT conversation in basketball nearly enough. l Do the Yankees have a leftfielder yet?

Asking for some friends. l Kyrie wants to be traded?

Tell him to make sure the door doesn’t hit him on the way out of Barclays.