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Phil Jackson’s shocking honesty about bungled Knicks trade

“I think the biggest mistake I made was actually this…”

Phil Jackson’s public comments — as well as the written retrospectives he delivers through proxy Charley Rosen — often are shrouded in a thick layer of foggy psychological mumbo jumbo.

But there’s nothing vague or indirect about the Knicks president’s stunningly honest confession in a belated season-in-review piece published Friday on Today’s Fastbreak: Jackson says his chief regret is messing up the Tyson Chandler trade in June 2014 by turning down a chance to acquire swingman Jae Crowder from the Dallas Mavericks.

Jackson says the final component of the seven-player deal — the Knicks also traded Raymond Felton, and received Jose Calderon, Shane Larkin, Samuel Dalembert and Wayne Ellington — was left up to him.