GREENBURGH — A year ago, the Knicks took the court at TD Garden on opening night, eying the game as a measuring stick, watching the Celtics ring ceremony and then facing the defending champions. And they fell behind by as many as 35 points as they were blown out in the first test for the rebuilt roster.

I don’t mean to stir up bad memories, but to remind Knicks fans that what you see on opening night isn’t always where you end up. It would have been hard to imagine on that night that the Knicks would knock the Celtics out of the playoffs and advance deeper into the postseason than the franchise had in a quarter-century.

It’s something the fan base, and the Knicks, themselves, might want to repeat over and over as the new season begins Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden with the Cle

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