BIG YEAR COMING FROM LINDOR, IMAGINE IF KNICKS HAD DONOVAN TOO & GIANTS BETTER BE RIGHT ABOUT DANNY DIMES...

With the new rules in baseball, and even those new super-sized bases, Francisco Lindor is going to be even better this season than he was last season.

And that is saying plenty.

That double overtime victory the Knicks had over the Celtics last Sunday night was one of the most exciting regular-season games the Knicks have played in years.

But they’re doing nothing in the playoffs if Jalen Brunson isn’t healthy.

One more thing about the Knicks, who got as hot as they did before hitting the road for the West Coast:

Don’t you wonder, even when they’re firing on all cylinders, how this all would look if they had Donovan Mitchell, too? I sure do.

I believe that if they could have made the money work — and teams always seem to be able to make the money work in the NBA, right? — they might be a top-three team in the Eastern Conference.

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that another big Yankee pitching acquisition like Carlos Rodon is injured already.

It’s a good thing Gerrit Cole is the horse that he is, or Yankee fans would be making a list, and checking it twice, about all the bad pitching decisions their team has made since the last time it won a World Series.

Seriously, they sure can pick ‘em, right?

I am happy that Daniel Jones got his money.

I am glad, as somebody who grew up a Giants fan, that he delivered the way he did this season with the money, literally, on the line for him.

But they better be right about him.

And by right, I mean that he can become somebody who can throw more than 15 touchdown passes in a season, which practically anybody can do.

Because if they’re wrong, they might end up having wasted nearly a whole decade on Jones.

At this point all you can say with certainty is this:

No one ever made more money off one good passing and throwing playoff victory than the guy from Duke just did.

The government ought to have found a way to let Novak Djokovic come play in Indian Wells, and Miami.

At this point, and just guessing about how many un-vaxxed athletes we’ve got in this country — starting with the Notorious Kyrie — you’ve got to wonder who the government is protecting at this point by continuing to ban the best tennis player on the planet.

I love all coaching members of the Hurley family, but Danny could think about decaf, right?

My pal Barry Stanton wonders this week if Zion might not be the second coming of the young Bill Walton, another guy whose talent was too big for his body.

I was giving a speech the other afternoon at Gallagher’s, still one of the capitals of the city, and I swear the Garden’s facial recognition picked me up on W. 52nd.