New offensive and defensive philosophies aren’t the only changes hitting Madison Square Garden’s hardwood this season.

Knicks head coach Mike Brown also plans to take a more balanced, team-wide approach to minutes distribution in his first year at the helm — a departure from the heavy-handed style of his predecessor, Tom Thibodeau, who often leaned on his starters for marathon shifts while the rest of the rotation sat cold.

Brown and the Knicks touched down in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday for Part 2 of training camp and the start of the preseason. And for a coach known for collaboration and long-term thinking, one of the early priorities is managing workloads for the 82-game grind — with the playoffs, not the win column, serving as the guiding light.

“The biggest thing is trying

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