With the calendar flipping to June and the NBA Finals set to commence on Thursday night, we are now three weeks away from the draft and one month from the opening of free agency.

This ordinarily wouldn’t seem like the ideal time for an NBA team to be changing general managers, but the news this week that Scott Perry will be departing the Knicks’ front office after six years in the GM chair once his contract expires, isn’t as daunting as, say, Brian Cashman or Joe Schoen leaving the Yankees or the Giants with those transformative league events rapidly approaching.

The Knicks’ executive hierarchy is such that team president Leon Rose is the primary decision-maker, with trusted lieutenants William (World Wide Wes) Wesley and senior advisor Gersson Rosas further marginalizing Perry’s role in recent seasons.

Before you say it, yes, social media was afire this week that the Perry news hit the web only a few hours after the announcement by Bob Myers that he was stepping down from the president/GM role with the Warriors after winning four championships over 11 seasons.

But get a grip.

The 48-year-old Myers obviously will be handed the keys to a franchise if he decides to return one day, but coming to work under Rose makes little sense for a front-office star of this magnitude, especially since he sounded like someone fully in need of a break at his resignation press conference on Tuesday in San Francisco.

“I’ve only known how to do things one way my whole life, and it doesn’t feel right to do something when I can’t give it everything,” Myers said. “And that’s what it takes to do what we’ve done over the last, for me, 12 years.”

Perry had been the Knicks’ general manager since 2017, brought in when Steve Mills was reinstalled as team president following the departure of Phil Jackson and retained when James Dolan hired Rose away from CAA to run the basketball operations in May 2020.

Within weeks, Rose also installed Brock Aller as VP of basketball and strategic planning and Walt Perrin (college scouting) and Frank Zanin (pro scouting) as assistant general managers.

The 44-year-old Rosas — the former Timberwolves team president (2019-21) who previously worked in the front offices of the Rockets and the Mavericks — would appear to the natural in-house fit to replace Perry, but the Knicks don’t need to be in a huge rush to officially name a replacement.

For instance, Rosas reportedly served as a point man for Rose during talks with the Jazz last summer involving Donovan Mitchell, before the All-Star guard instead was shipped to the Cavaliers. And that was while Perry was still there.

No matter how the hierarchy shifts, or doesn’t, the front office faces a busy few weeks ahead.

The Knicks’ most likely path this summer to improve on their 47-35 record and their first postseason series victory since 2013 again will be via the trade market.

While they will attempt to re-sign Josh Hart to a multi-year deal once he presumably declines his $12.9 million player option, the Knicks currently are about $5 million above the projected salary cap of $134 million for next season. That leaves them with little more than the $12 million non-taxpayer exception and the $4.5 million biannual exception to sign external free agents. (Since Hart was dealt to the Knicks during the season, they inherited his Bird rights and can exceed the cap to keep him.)

They also don’t currently own a 2023 draft pick after trading their first-round selection in the Hart deadline trade — and after the Mavericks’ late-season tank job helped Dallas retain its top-10 protected pick from the 2019 Kristaps Porzingis trade.

That rebuilding deal, of course, was executed by the Mills/Perry combo. But the latter was increasingly pushed aside under the current regime, leading to Perry’s pending departure.

With other trusted front-office pieces in place, the Knicks don’t need to be in a rush to fill that spot.

Speaking of the Mavericks bailing out at the end of the regular season to retain their KP draft pick, rather than push for a 7-10 play-in berth in the West, former Knicks coach and current ABC/ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy gave an interesting answer when asked about the Heat making it to the NBA Finals out of the play-in tournament and joining the 1999 Knicks as the only No. 8 seeds to advance to the championship round.

“The Heat were 3:45 from not qualifying for the playoffs and being labeled a disappointment. Instead, they found a way to beat Chicago and then go on this tremendous run,” Van Gundy said this week on a Zoom call with reporters.

“Dallas, I just don’t believe in ever not doing your very, very best. And yet I understand what Dallas did because of trying to secure a way to surround [Luka] Doncic — and I think from their standpoint, [Kyrie] Irving — with more talent, and having the 10th pick, whatever it turns out to be, gives them another way to better their team.

“So, I understand the whys. But I also think having looked at what Jimmy Butler and the Heat have done, you can undersell your great talent in Doncic. I’m not saying they would have advanced and made the playoffs and won big in the playoffs. But Doncic is that good, where you always have a fighting chance.

“So it wouldn’t have been my preferred style if I was Dallas, and yet I understand why they did what they did. I would have just given Doncic and Irving a chance, or every chance, they could have to do the unthinkable.”

The Mavericks, who were fined $750,000 by the NBA for sitting out several players in their final regular-season games with a chance to clinch a play-in berth, remained in the No. 10 draft position via the lottery.

Dallas’ first-round pick also remains top-10 protected in 2024 and 2025, or else the Knicks will receive a second-round selection.

Denver head coach Michael Malone was a Knicks assistant coach (2001-05), as was his father, Brendan, in three separate stints beginning in 1986.

The younger Malone was on the coaching staffs of both Van Gundy with the Knicks and Mark Jackson with the Warriors. The two broadcast partners with local ties will work the Finals again alongside longtime Knicks (and national) play-by-play announcer Mike Breen.

“I actually hired him as a lead assistant, knowing him from my New York days and watching him in Cleveland,” Jackson said of Michael Malone. “I’m not surprised at all [by his success with the Nuggets]. He always was a tremendous worker and very prepared.

“He’s done an incredible job. … He’s worked with both of us and we’re extremely proud of the job he’s done not just in Denver, but from Day 1 as a head coach. … He’s been incredible from Day 1, and finds himself on the verge of a winning an NBA championship. He’s an outstanding coach, and as hard a worker as you will find, very dedicated and disciplined.”

After posting a record of 39-67 in two seasons in his first head-coaching job with Sacramento, Malone has been in Denver for eight years — including the last six in a row with winning records — before leading the Nuggets to the NBA Finals for the first time in their 47-year existence.