Go ahead and check the box on the most important metric of the Knicks’ young season and perhaps their entire season: the all-important vision thing.

Part A: Kristaps Porzingis comfortably views himself as the heir to the role of franchise player.

Part B: Frank Ntilikina, the rookie point guard from France, clearly sees the floor.

Not to overstate the value of a three-game winning streak following the same number of dismal defeats, but six games in, it is already safe to say that anyone mourning the end of the Carmelo Anthony era has lifted the veil and shed the fear that Porzingis needed cover from the pressure of being a leading man in big, bad New York.

“From the beginning I wasn’t scared,” he said before a career-high 38 points powered a 116-110 Knicks victory over Denver on Monday night at a suddenly buzzed Madison Square Garden.