Jay Wright passed on speaking with the Knicks when they had a head-coaching vacancy two years ago. Perhaps that will change this time around.

Wright is a possibility to become the Knicks’ next coach, according to Forbes. The Knicks fired David Fizdale earlier this season, making Mike Miller the interim coach. Soon-to-be president Leon Rose will lead a coaching search after Steve Mills was fired.

The Post’s Marc Berman reported that Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau are expected to be on Rose’s short list.

The impression from people who know Wright is that the only job he’d leave Villanova for is the 76ers.

In May 2018, Wright told The Post that not talking to the Knicks had everything to do with Villanova.

“It’s not that you’re not interested, I just don’t want to leave,” Wright said then. “It’s the Knicks. You love the Garden, you love New York City, you love the Knicks. I just know I don’t want to leave Villanova.”

Carl Hirsch, Wright’s longtime agent, also told The Post at the time that Wright had no plans to leave the school.

Wright, 58, is in his 19th season with Villanova. He led the Wildcats to national titles in 2015-16 and 2017-18. Wright is from the Philadelphia area, near where Rose and “Worldwide Wes” William Wesley — a basketball power broker whom Rose has worked with — grew up in southern New Jersey. Rose is from Cherry Hill and graduated from Temple.

Wright is putting his Berwyn, Pa., house on the market for roughly $2.5 million, but Philadelphia Business Journal reports he and his family are looking to move closer to Villanova’s campus.