LOS ANGELES — As he awaited the NBA Cup championship ceremony for his new team, Cam Reddish had no interest in looking back again at the disaster with the Knicks.

“I’ve got nothing for you,” Reddish said Monday before walking out of the Lakers’ locker room ahead of his current team’s 114-109 loss. “My time in New York is over.”

Reddish, 24, has good reasons to forget about his stint at MSG.

He was traded to the Knicks for a first-round pick in 2022 but pulled from the rotation amid frustrations with, among other things, Tom Thibodeau’s quick hook.

After he was dealt from the Knicks, Reddish even commented that his DNP streak under Thibodeau “had nothing to do with basketball. It was all the politics, all the favoritism.”

One season and two teams later, he’s rejuvenated as a starter with the Lakers, albeit in a small offensive role as a floor spacer only averaging 5.8 shot attempts before Monday night’s game against the Knicks.

His greatest improvement is on defense, with Reddish among the Lakers leaders in defensive rating.

Thibodeau took a thinly veiled shot at Reddish, who scored four points and was called for five fouls in 27 minutes on Monday, by crediting his surge with accepting his role, which is something that apparently didn’t happen in New York.

“I think the first thing is to embrace the role, and I think he’s done a really good job of that,” the Knicks coach said.

Reddish’s acquisition, pushed by former GM Scott Perry, according to multiple sources, was part of a terrible stretch for the Knicks’ front office before and during the 2020-21 season.

The team also signed Kemba Walker, Evan Fournier, Nerlens Noel and Derrick Rose to regrettable deals in that time frame.

As the Knicks search for ways to replace the injured Mitchell Robinson, one option that hasn’t received attention is Julius Randle moving to center.

It makes sense for a couple reasons — it allows the Knicks to spread the floor and alleviates the roster crunch at guard — and Randle gave the move a thumbs-up before Monday’s game against the Lakers

“It don’t bother me. I’ve played it before in my career, had success with it,” Randle said. “It don’t bother me. It’s just what Thibs, the coaches, feel is best for the team.”

The last part of the quote is key and probably the reason such a small-ball lineup won’t happen.

Thibodeau prioritizes rebounding and protecting the rim, which is why he almost always has a traditional center on the court.

It became an issue last season when backup power forward Obi Toppin was struggling to find consistent playing time, but Thibodeau resisted moving Randle to center for more than just a few minutes.

Robinson was an All-Defense candidate before he underwent ankle surgery.

The Knicks never disclosed the nature of the injury and he’s scheduled for a re-evaluation in seven to nine weeks.

A re-evaluation, to be clear, doesn’t mean that’s when he’s returning.

The Knicks have started Jericho Sims in his spot but gave the bulk of the center minutes to Isaiah Hartenstein.

Heading into Monday night, Sims struggled to find an offensive role with the starters and was hurt by foul trouble in Saturday’s loss to the Clippers.

“It’s tough. It’s an adjustment,” Randle said of Sims’ playing defense without fouling. “I think a lot of it is knowing tendencies of players, what they like to do so you’re not caught off-balance and off guard. I think he’s still learning it.”

Randle played center often in his last season with the Lakers under coach Luke Walton, alternating with Brook Lopez, and then with the Pelicans during his lone season in New Orleans.

Randle always circled his games against the Lakers, ever since executives Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka dumped him in free agency.

The motivation worked with averages of 25.1 points and 9.2 rebounds over 12 games before Monday.

He had 27 points and 14 rebounds this time.

Does the matchup still mean something, nearly six years after he left?

“We’ll see,” he said at the morning shootaround on the UCLA campus.

After Randle joked that he didn’t trust teammate Ryan Arcidiacono with securing a game ball because of his non-threatening appearance — “they might look at him and say, ‘We can take that,’ the All-Star said after grabbing Jalen Brunson’s 50-point ball from Arcidiacono last week — Brunson added to the storyline by declaring Monday, tongue-in-cheek, “That problem between Ryan and Julius runs deeper than what you guys see. That’s all I’m going to say.”