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Chris Childs says Nets’ free-agent coup should be Knicks’ ‘wakeup call’

Chris Childs played his first two seasons with the Nets before signing with the Knicks for the glory years from 1996 to 2001.

The ex-point guard could never have imagined what has taken place in New York’s basketball landscape – the Nets beating out the Knicks for superstar free agents Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

“It should be a wakeup call for the Knicks,” Childs told The Post in a phone interview from his home in Jacksonville, Fla. “It should be a wakeup when you didn’t get the free agents you expect to get, especially when [Kristaps] Porzingis left and you think you’re getting a guy or two to come in to fill that and it doesn’t happen.