DALLAS — Mitchell Robinson still isn’t logging heavy minutes — but Knicks head coach Mike Brown insists the workload is climbing.

Robinson played 18 minutes in Monday’s loss to the Miami Heat, New York’s fourth straight road defeat, but Brown pushed back on the idea that his starting center is stuck in a hard cap.

“It’s increased. It’s gone up three times,” Brown said postgame. “And again, it’s all part of the load management thing. So it’s not necessarily a [minutes] restriction.”

Robinson played 20 minutes in his Halloween season debut in Chicago but hasn’t topped 18 in any of his six games since. Brown said the seven-footer can play more, but the Knicks are following the load-management plan designed by vice president of sports medicine Casey Smith and his staff.

“He could play

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