Pau Gasol passed on the Knicks, but that doesn’t mean his younger brother Marc will.

Next summer, Grizzles center Marc Gasol, a versatile and supremely talented 7-foot center, will be a free agent. The Knicks, with more than $20 million of cap space, are expected to make a run at him.

Pau, in town with the Bulls, his new team, said it is “possible” his 29-year-old brother could wind up in New York and mentioned he has talked to Marc about Knicks president Phil Jackson in the past.

“We’ll see what happens next year, what he decides. Hopefully he’ll have a strong year and all the options in the world, because he’s one of the top centers, interior players in the league, so any team would be fortunate to have him,” the 34-year-old Spaniard said of his younger brother, before the Bulls demolished the Knicks, 104-80, Wednesday night at the Garden. “It’s a personal decision. I talked to my brother enough about Phil that he knows what he brings to the table.

“I don’t know how much he’s involved in the team, really. He’s in an upstairs position, management position. He’s not on the court every day, so it’s something that [his brother will] consider when he gets to that point.”

Pau said he “considered” joining Jackson, his former coach with the Lakers with whom he won two titles, and former teammate Derek Fisher with the Knicks, but his desire to win immediately trumped his old friends.

Instead, he was at the Garden as a visitor, the newest member of the Bulls, the team many have anointed the favorites in the East along with the LeBron James-led Cavaliers.

“I considered them just because of different factors, mainly Phil and Derek being involved, the Knicks being a great organization as well,” Pau said. “It would’ve been interesting, but I thought there were better situations for me.”

That being the Bulls, where he joins Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and coach Tom Thibodeau.

“Overall, I feel it’s a much more balanced team, with better weapons overall,” said Pau, a four-time All-Star. “I fit in better and it’s a team that’s automatically a contender.”

Another factor working against the Knicks, Pau said, was their limited finances because of the salary cap. Pau signed a three-year, $22 million contract with Chicago. The Knicks could offer him just a fraction of that amount.

“I took a pretty significant pay cut already, so that would’ve been a humongous pay cut for me to be in this city,” he said.

Pau said he does expect Jackson to turn the Knicks into a contender eventually. He was happy Jackson landed the job in New York, the position he wanted in Los Angeles.

“Obviously there’s a lot of factors that come into play, but I have faith in Phil that he’ll succeed,” Pau said.