Aside from a meeting with their fellow basement-dwelling Cavaliers on Monday, the Knicks have gone up against three NBA Finals contenders in their past four games.

They have hung around for most of the game against all three powerhouses. But the only wins to be found were of the moral variety.

Once again, the Knicks kept it close with the Raptors on Friday night, but could never get over the hump, falling to the defending champions, 118-112 at the Garden.

The loss was the Knicks’ 10th in their past 12 games and came in the same week in which they dropped tight ones to the 76ers (90-87) and Lakers (100-92).

“I was just talking to Marcus [Morris] about it — it’s almost becoming, like, sick how close we are,” said Julius Randle, who had 20 points and 11 rebounds. “You go home and think about this all night, how close we are to really making that jump. But we just gotta stay at it, stay persistent. Keep trying to make plays down the stretch and figure out ways to close the game out.

The Knicks (12-34) had a late chance to make a stop in a one-possession game, but Raptors forward Pascal Siakam lived up to his new All-Star billing and drained a 3-pointer to make it a 115-109 lead with 22 seconds left. Bobby Portis turned the ball over on the ensuing possession as the air let out of the crowd — not accounting for the large chunk of Toronto fans in attendance.

It was the second time Siakam got free from the Knicks’ defense on a late pick-and-roll, after getting through the lane for a dunk to make it 110-107 with 1:09 left.

“They just had really good screens on me,” Morris said. “I tried to go under. We were supposed to pull over from the weak side, [but] we ended up hugging a little bit. He made the play. He’s a good player.”

The Raptors (31-14) had led 97-87 with just over eight minutes to go before the Knicks pushed back. Damyean Dotson (21 points) continued his hot shooting and the Knicks got repeated stops on the defensive end to close within 100-98, forcing a Raptors timeout with 5:15 on the clock.

Morris later tied the game at 103 on a pair of free throws with 4:03 left, but OG Anunoby hit a 3 just 15 seconds later and the Knicks trailed the rest of the way, lacking the finishing touch that Siakam (23 points) and Kyle Lowry (26 points) brought to the Raptors.

“Definitely tough to keep losing like that,” said Morris, who finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds. “It’s tougher that we’re right there and we’re losing. [If we] were not even competing and getting our ass kicked, that would be like, ‘OK, we’re not doing nothing.’ But we’re right there in that game.”

The Knicks came out of the gate strong, grabbing a 26-13 lead just under 10 minutes in. It got slimmed down to 28-20 by the end of the first quarter and evaporated when the Raptors went on a 13-0 run in the second quarter to take a 43-40 lead.

The Knicks never let the Raptors run away with the game — as they did under David Fizdale when they met on Thanksgiving Eve in Toronto, a 126-98 loss — but they have struggled to figure out how to take the next step and turn the tight games into wins.

“We’re playing a competitive level of basketball,” interim coach Mike Miller said. “When you play a competitive level of basketball, they come down to the final plays and we’ve got to get better at making those plays.”