If you’re not thinking big anymore, you might be just a defeatist. Or a Negative Nancy. Or just stuck in the eras of Isiah Thomas, Stephon Marbury, Phil Jackson.

And that’d be understandable. I get it. It’s been a long time. Too long. Fifty-two years, to be exact, the same age of the first Watergate hearings.

But even for those pessimistic Knicks fans, it must’ve been impossible to watch Friday night’s annihilation of the Celtics and not think about the Larry O’Brien trophy.

It is, gulp, realistic.