PHILADELPHIA — Josh Hart pointed at the Sixers’ bench and called timeout for them.

76ers head coach Nick Nurse followed suit.

He had no choice.

Jalen Brunson had just made the game, and potentially series-winning bucket, and the Sixers needed to regroup.

They will have plenty of time to do so in Cancun, or wherever their vacation plans are this summer. Barring a meltdown of epic playoff proportions, this series is cooked — in favor of the Knicks.

With less than a minute left in regulation and the Knicks up four, Brunson, who’d carved up the Sixer defense all afternoon, took out his sword and did it once more, knifing into the lane, this time inexplicably uncontested in crunch time for a floater at the rim.

Game, Knicks. History says the series will follow suit.

The Knicks beat the 76ers, 97-92, to win Game 4 at the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday.

They have taken a commanding 3-1 series lead over the 76ers, who employ the NBA’s reigning Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid and a budding star in dynamic guard Tyrese Maxey.

Embiid played the entire second half, while Brunson went to the locker room at the end of the third quarter after taking a shot on an Embiid chase down block. He emerged from the tunnel to lead the Knicks to victory.

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