By MARC BERMAN

It’s Mike over Mark. It’s experience, speed and a winning track record over potential and New York sentiment.

Knicks president Donnie Walsh made a four-year, $24 million offer to Suns coach Mike D’Antoni on Saturday morning and the marquee fastbreak guru verbally accepted the package, beating out the Bulls, according to a member of D’Antoni’s inner circle.

The D’Antoni camp was looking for a five-year, $30 million deal but still got their $6 million per, which blew away the Bulls. It’s unclear if Chicago made a formal offer after a Friday night meeting between D’Antoni and Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who lives in Arizona. The Bulls weren’t prepared to go beyond four years, $18 million.

“He felt comfortable with Donnie,” a source close to D’Antoni said. “They seemed excited to get him. It’s all gut feeling.”

Mark Jackson, the Queens product, former St. John’s/Knicks point guard and sentimental choice, finished as second choice after being the early frontrunner.

D’Antoni was at the top on Walsh’s four-coach list of men he thought might be available after the first-round of the playoffs. When the Suns were eliminated in five games by San Antonio, Suns GM Steve Kerr gave D’Antoni permission to talk to the Knicks and Bulls because of a rift with Phoenix management and ownership.

D’Antoni may have accepted Walsh’s offer in “Seven Seconds or Less,” which is the title of the recent book on D’Antoni’s run-and-gun Suns. The title is D’Antoni’s mantra, that the best chance of scoring is in the first seven seconds of the shot clock.