Meredith has quietly sold the digital auto site The Drive to a private equity firm while continuing to negotiate with ex-Milwaukee Bucks NBA player Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman for Sports Illustrated.

The new owner of The Drive is Flash Equity, headed by Andrew Perlman.

The Post reported back in October that Bridgeman was said to be closing in on a deal for SI. Reuters last week reported Bridgeman is talking about a deal of $150 million. That puts the basket so far at $490 million with agreements in place to sell Fortune and Time — and a Money magazine deal still pending.

While Bridgeman may still be the front-runner for SI, his exclusive negotiating window closed weeks ago, sources said, and other potential suitors are also in the wings should Bridgeman fail to come up with the money.

Meredith was originally hoping to fetch up to $200 million.

Money magazine remains on the block, but one source close to the company said it is expected to fetch $10 million to $15 million — which is raising concern that a new owner only wants the valuable money.com URL but has less interest in regularly publishing a print magazine.

If that happens, it means Meredith is likely to have reached what some observers thought was a very long shot when the sale started in March — fetching $500 million from the old Time Inc. properties it was divesting.

Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, have an agreement to buy Time magazine for $190 million.

Fortune has a deal to be sold for $150 million to Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon, whose family controls Charoen Pokphand, one of Thailand’s largest companies. He is acquiring it as a personal investment.

Meanwhile, The Drive was once ballyhooed as a big reason then-owner Time Inc. was putting its digital properties in its own stand-alone building away from headquarters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. They wanted to develop a cool digital culture.

But when Meredith completed its $2.8 billion deal in January to take over the old Time Inc., it quickly moved to shut down the Sunset Park site and moved all the digital operations into the Brookfield Place offices in downtown Manhattan. “We did not believe The Drive was core to our digital initiatives and subsequently sold it to a private investor,” said a Meredith spokesman.

“Since the sale was not material, we are not disclosing any details.”