During a 7,500-word piece published Monday morning, Knicks owner James Dolan sounded less passionate about winning the NBA championship than in the past. The eccentric Knicks owner came across as more detached. Beaten down by hostile fans.

Dolan has many other interests going on in entertainment productions — in the process of building two state-of-the-art venues, called MSG Sphere — first one in Las Vegas, followed by London.

Maybe JD & The Straight Shot will be part of their opening acts. Those are his baths of light nowadays — not the 9-23 Knicks.

The Knicks’ season has been given to player development rather than winning, but Monday’s horrific 18-point loss to the league-worst Suns still was difficult to swallow. It is a plan a tortured fan base has mostly accepted after mostly misery since the 2001-02 season.

Oddly, the long account gave no hint into how Dolan feels about the Knicks’ new building-through-the-draft blueprint. No remark about the progress of the NBA’s youngest team — other than talking proudly about the progressive, all-black front office headed by Steve Mills, Scott Perry and Craig Robinson, the brother of former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Dolan came off like any other owner who would dispassionately sell a team for the right price, bowing to his stockholders. Dolan essentially announced a starting bid of $5 billion. The only talk of breaking the Knicks’ 45-year-old title curse came when he revealed he wouldn’t attend a championship parade.

That’s the only sentiment I can’t imagine. If the Knicks ever win it, Dolan’s blues band would be on stage to belt out Queen’s “We Are The Champions” for the Canyon of Heroes celebration.

Despite a clarifying statement he has “no plans” to sell, Dolan may realize he won’t be around for a title as he oversees another Knicks reinvention — many crafted by team president Mills, a Garden fixture most of the last 15 years.

“I don’t have a vision of a Knicks parade,” Dolan told ESPN.com. “I always [said] I wouldn’t go on the parade because I didn’t win the championship, the players did. I don’t relish the spotlight with being the owner of the team. If we did a parade, I don’t know if I’d go on the parade. I don’t think I would.”

Last time Dolan was interviewed, by The Post’s Larry Brooks in late April, he mentioned the possibility of Kristaps Porzingis missing the entire season. Porzingis’ name never surfaced in this piece.

Barring a setback, Porzingis missing 2018-19 won’t be the case. Fizdale has said Porzingis is “waiting in the wings.” Porzingis said recently his ACL rehab is coming to its conclusion.

What level of Porzingis the Knicks will get is the more pertinent question after not playing for a year, unable to develop a still-unpolished game at the crucial age of 23.

The whole franchise rests on his damaged left knee. Even before the ACL tear, the lanky, 7-3 Latvian endured durability issues — Phil Jackson’s worry when he drafted him fourth in 2015.

Though named to the All-Star Game, few remember that after an MVP-like November, his game dipped in December and January before the injury.

Dolan is 63 and sounded exhausted as the target of the slings and arrows after investing so much financially into this product, beyond the $60 million he burned on the ghost of Jackson.

Maybe Dolan has an inkling the Knicks will still be rebuilding like the Suns have since 2010. He sounded miserable.

“I’m not hiding, I just want to be me,” Dolan said. “In New York, I really can’t go out in public without having a security person with me, and I’m hearing stuff and it’s like, ‘Hey, I’m just shopping here.’

“I try to be nice to them, [but] usually people have negative things to say. They like to jump out, shout something horrible and run away. That happens all the time. Even at dinner. It’s not fun.

“It’s not a living hell,” the 5-6 Long Islander added of presiding over the Knicks. “I have to say, I enjoy the summers.”

He means the summers, when the Knicks are out of season. Dolan wasn’t on hand for the Suns debacle. If it is indeed no longer fun, I wouldn’t be surprised if he looks to sell like he’s looking to sell the Liberty for financial reasons. Package deal?

Dolan has meant well and spent prodigiously — unlike the Wilpons with the Mets. He doesn’t get credit for that. But the results are disastrous.

Maybe it’s time to give someone else a chance. But be careful what you wish for.