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BOSTON – Mindaugas Kuzminskas isn’t at the point of lying about his age, but he’s close to it.

The Knicks’ happy-go-lucky Lithuanian small forward, nicknamed “Cheese’’ because of an ever-present smile, turned 27 on Wednesday. A rookie at 27.

“Right now I feel like a woman about my age,’’ Kuzminskas told The Post after the morning shootaround Wednesday at TD Garden. “When someone asks me, I don’t want to say. Basketball-wise, all the time, you want to be younger and younger. Just a few years ago, I was a prospect and young guy. Now I’m already 27.