Knicks point guard Jose Calderon is considered one of the most likable players in the NBA. After his underwhelming first season in New York, he took ownership of his struggles and promised a different 2015-16.

His injury-riddled, ineffective season triggered a backlash to the blockbuster trade that sent Tyson Chandler to Dallas for Calderon, among others, with Knicks president Phil Jackson taking the brunt of the criticism. All signs point to Jackson being unwilling to give up on the Calderon experiment, even if he could save cap space by waiving him under the stretch provision.

The Spanish point guard,34 in September, said he desperately wants to return to make up for the 2014-15 season in which he missed 40 games and show Knicks fans this was an aberration. While Carmelo Anthony went through a 25-minute press conference Thursday without one hint of shouldering blame for the Knicks’ 17-65 disaster, Calderon took a different tone.

“One hundred percent, we didn’t see the Jose Calderon I was all these years,’’ Calderon told The Post. “Personally, [I was] just disappointed how it was individually because I can do a much better job. And I didn’t get it right. The only good thing about it, I know I’m going to be much better next season. I know what they want, I know what they want from me and how it’s going to work. Hopefully I’ll get better with [avoiding] injuries.’’

Calderon strained his calf late in training camp, missed the first 13 games, then went down again Feb. 25 in Detroit with an Achilles strain and never returned. Calderon said he thought things might have been different had he started the season opener, always feeling behind the eight-ball in the new triangle offense.

“It’s tough to play all the games but one last year [in Dallas] and play the World Cup and then come here and have all the injuries,’’ Calderon said. “I’m not saying this one was more important than last year, but this one was a new thing for everybody. For sure I’m disappointed about that.’’

Calderon struggled on defense and never found his normally trusty jump shot, finishing at 35.4 percent from the floor, and offering little in the way of penetration skills. The Knicks training staff has mapped out a distinct rehab program after he decided to have a bloodspinning procedure three weeks ago that essentially ended his season.

“I’m pretty confident I’m going to be here,’’ Calderon said. “I want to be here. That’s the feeling I got from the coaching staff. That’s what I feel about next year. But you’re only one phone call away for something to happen. I always got to be prepared. It’s how the NBA works. I don’t want to get out now because the good part is coming. You don’t want to leave now.’’

Calderon has to make a decision soon on whether he will play for Spain in the Eurobasket tournament that starts in late July. Calderon said he has made no decision and seems to be leaning against it, wanting to focus solely on getting it right in New York.

Despite Minnesota’s deluxe tank job in which Flip Saunders’ team lost its final 12 games to clinch the top seed in the lottery from the Knicks, league commissioner Adam Silver said lottery reform has been tabled and the format won’t change for 2016.

Speaking after the Board of Governors meetings at the St. Regis in Manhattan, Silver said the decision to table the lottery change is because teams feel the NBA is entering an unknown landscape, with a dramatic rise in the salary cap coming in 2016, along with a new television deal, and want to see how that affects “behavior.’’ Silver said a change that could give the top six or so teams equal odds of winning the No. 1 pick still is on the radar for 2017.

“There’s still a sense that we need to make a change, but [not] until we see what the team behavior is going to be,’’ Silver said.

Last October, lottery reform was voted down for 2015, with the Knicks, ironically, voting for reform.