We are selfish as fans and we are selfish as media. There’s no other word for it, really. And for that matter, so are players and executives and pretty much everyone else around sports.

Had you told Knicks fans — no, forget that, had you told Knicks management — in October that this season they would get a night like Friday night and no more, everyone would have taken it in a heartbeat.

A generational beatdown of the Celtics, the Garden rocking like it hasn’t in decades, the Knicks putting a season’s worth of doubts to rest and shutting down Seventh Avenue with the kind of scenes the city hasn’t seen in … ever?

Yeah, everyone would have called that a success. No questions asked.