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Ex-coach’s inside look at ‘frail’ Porzingis’ transformation

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Kristaps Porzingis boxes out Frank Kaminsky on Wednesday.

If Kristaps Porzingis wasn’t 7-foot-3 and still wearing his blond hair short, Audie Norris would have a tough time recognizing the Latvian. That’s how different he looks from last season.

Norris, the big-man coach for the Spanish League’s Casala Sevilla last season, was at the Garden for last Friday’s and Sunday’s games against Milwaukee and the Lakers as Porzingis’ guest. Porzingis was after rebounds like Norris had never seen in Sevilla, where Porzingis played two seasons.

“It reminded me of a conversation we had in Sevilla,’’ Norris told The Post on Thursday.