The Knicks probably should have listened to Rick Pitino .

Appearing on Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart’s “Roomates Show” podcast , the now-St. John’s head coach said he urged the Knicks in 2017 to draft Donovan Mitchell , whom he coached at Louisville.

The Knicks, who were run by Phil Jackson at the time, held the No. 8 pick in that year’s draft.

“I called them up and said, ‘Listen, take my guy Donovan Mitchell. He’s gonna kill it. Don’t pay attention to what you think some of his weaknesses are. He’s gonna kill it,’” said Pitino, who was a Knicks assistant from 1983-85 and their head coach from 1987-89.

“They said, ‘Nah, I don’t know if we can take him that high.’”

Instead, the Knicks selected French point guard Frank Ntilikina, who never came close to living up to his lottery-pi

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