In the depths of their seven-year playoff drought, where elimination was the only thing clinched this time of year, the Knicks would have taken a 1 percent chance — from any person, any simulator or, heck, any dream — of winning the title.

Because 1 percent is better than a tenth of a percentage. It’s better than zero, too.

That’s why the final number in a series of projections from FiveThirtyEight — which as of Tuesday morning gives the Knicks a greater than 99 percent chance of making the playoffs, a 3 percent chance of making the NBA Finals and a 1 percent chance of winning the title — might be a bit deceiving. It’s worth more than a digit.

This will be just the Knicks’ fifth season with a winning record since 2001-02 — and their second since 2012-13, a decade that featured their lengthy drought and seven different head or interim coaches.