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Time is now for Phil Jackson to engineer Knicks’ turnaround

Mercifully, the gut-emptying disaster known as the 2014-15 Knicks season came to a close Wednesday at the Garden, as a basic replay of so many other games — the Knicks trailed by double-digits most of the night. And lost. For the 65th time.

Hey, as a stunningly successful coach turned impossibly calamitous team president noted recently, “S–t happens.” And the 17-65 Knicks and their fans endured more dung than anyone in 2014-15.

“It was obviously a difficult season for us as a team,” coach Derek Fisher said after the 112-90 defeat to the Pistons, “and we were forced to deal with some realities.