The Knicks keep building big leads. They also keep coughing them up.

It’s become the defining — and increasingly troubling — pattern for a team that beat the Charlotte Hornets, 119-104, on the second night of a back-to-back on Wednesday.

New York has now won five of its last six, the lone loss coming in Boston on Tuesday.

They’ve also blown double-digit leads in five of those six games.

Up 45–33 on the lowly Nets before letting it shrink to a one-possession game by halftime.

Up 101–88 on Milwaukee with 10:18 to play before the Bucks erased nearly all of it in five minutes.

Up 41–22 on Toronto after one quarter before the Raptors carved it down to three in the third.

Up 37–23 on Boston before Jaylen Brown detonated for 33 across the second and third, flipping the game entirely.

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