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Knicks’ return flight home delayed due to New York blizzard

MINNEAPOLIS — The Knicks are fearful of being stranded in the Twin Cities.

The club canceled its charter flight to stay overnight in Minnesota instead of flying home after last night’s 100-94 win over the Timberwolves at the Target Center because of the Nemo blizzard.

Coach Mike Woodson said he was even worried about the status of tomorrow’s showdown against Western Conference power the Clippers.

Woodson will have the Knicks stage a “shootaround practice’’ in Minnesota, in the team hotel.

The Clippers, who lost 111-89 to the Heat last night in Miami, also could have travel issues. Their plan is to practice in Miami today and then fly to New York, weather permitting.

“If we can’t get back there because of the snow, we just got to adjust,’’ Woodson said. “Let’s just hope the game’s not cancelled. That’s my whole thing.’’

The game is scheduled to be broadcast on ABC, so the NBA likely will try to do everything it can to play it.

“We are always monitoring weather situations,’’ NBA spokesman Tim Frank said.

Ironically there’s no snow here in the snowbelt of Minnesota.

“We hear the snow’s already started,’’ Steve Novak said yesterday afternoon. “Hopefully we get back. … Hopefully if we can’t get back, they [the Clippers] can’t [either]. If we get stuck, we get stuck. We’ll find something to do.’’

Jason Kidd said: “Mother Nature comes first. It will be interesting to see when we do get home, if we can get home, especially with an early game on Sunday.’’

Chris Mullin, who was supposed to call the Clippers game Sunday for ESPN radio, told The Post today he’s not able to make it after his flight tonight was cancelled.

* Woodson spent yesterday’s morning shootaround working on the pick-and-roll defense that collapsed in the 106-96 loss in Washington.

The Wizards scored 36 fourth-quarter points. Washington point guard John Wall had his way with the Knicks defense, working off pick-and-rolls as Knicks players were hesitant on when to switch.

Woodson said the preference is for the point guards to stay with the point guard whenever possible.

“Guys just get smacked on pick and roll and you have to switch,” he said. “That’s the what-if. We’ve been having too many what ifs of late.’’

* After the loss to Washington, Tyson Chandler seemed to question why adjustments weren’t made to the defensive game plan when it wasn’t working.

“We talked about the game plan and all that but we weren’t doing what’s asked of us,” Woodson said. “I don’t know if it’s going to work, but at least we have to do what’s asked of us. Because I know it’s what we did early in the year and it worked. We kind of got away from it the other night. We didn’t have a body on a body and we were caught in rotations a lot of times.’’