Knicks give timeline update as Miles McBride sidelined with ankle injury

Just as the Knicks got one key piece of their rotation back, they’ll need to operate without another for at least the immediate future.

Miles McBride will be reevaluated in a week after suffering a sprained left ankle during Sunday’s win, according to the Knicks — and with that timeline, he’ll miss the NBA Cup semifinal Saturday against the Magic and the final Tuesday if they advance.

McBride tumbled to the Garden court after being fouled late in the third quarter while attempting a layup, and The Post’s Stefan Bondy reported that McBride left the Knicks facility in a walking boot the next day and suffered a high ankle sprain.

The latest update delivered a blow to the surging Knicks — who’ve won four in a row and eight of their past nine games — ahead of their trip for the final portion of the league’s in-season tournament. They went 0-3 without McBride during his previous absences this season before picking up a victory Tuesday, and in his fifth year the guard has averaged a career-best 11.6 points per game along with 2.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists and a 44.4 percent 3-point clip.

“Obviously, we miss him,” point guard Jalen Brunson said after practice Thursday in Tarrytown. “We want him back. Gotta pick up a lot of slack on both sides of the ball without him being out there. He’s able to do so much for us, and so definitely we need to fill that gap. We’re just gonna have to do what we’ve gotta do until he’s back.”

McBride has remained one of the Knicks’ contract bargains, more than living up to the three-year, $13 million extension he signed nearly two years ago by providing strong minutes off the bench and starting — like he did for seven of the nine games OG Anunoby recently missed with a hamstring strain — when needed. But the Knicks will need to rely on Jordan Clarkson to fill McBride’s role for at least the Vegas trip and adapt without their top two guards off the bench, as Landry Shamet injured his shoulder in late November and received a reevaluation timeline of four weeks. Second-year guard Tyler Kolek could be tasked with inheriting extra minutes too.