Some thought Knicks owner James Dolan, president Phil Jackson and coach Derek Fisher got their just desserts last Tuesday when the club dropped to the fourth pick in the NBA draft lottery.

NBA fans said karma bit Dolan in the rear for hiring Isiah Thomas. The man once found in a sexual harassment trial to have created a “hostile workplace for women’’ at Madison Square Garden was installed the week prior as president of a women’s basketball team — the WNBA’s Liberty. Jackson was punished for not even showing up to the lottery despite living blocks away. He sent Steve Mills to the dais and didn’t bother to make an appearance. Heck, he didn’t even tweet about it.

And Fisher got his share of wrath from Knicks fans for having the audacity to coach the club to two victories in their final three games of the regular season. The hard-fought road wins in Orlando and Atlanta were spearheaded by Tim Hardaway Jr., who ended a sophomore jinx of a season on a high note.

By winning those two games, coupled with Timberwolves GM/coach Flip Saunders guiding his team to a season-ending 12-game losing streak, the Knicks lost the top lotto seed.

The skid elevated Minnesota to a 25 percent chance of winning the No. 1 pick and the right to choose between potential franchise big men Karl-Anthony Towns and Jahlil Okafor. The Knicks’ chances dropped to 19.9 percent. The Timberwolves won the pick. The Knicks plummeted.

The vitriol directed at Dolan and Jackson is not without justification, but ripping Fisher was not right. The anger would have been better directed at the lottery process itself, which once seemed likely to be reformed in time for the 2016 event.

Minnesota’s lottery win, though the first by a top seed since 2004, gives renewed attention to a format that incentivizes losing 12 straight games to finish a season. Don’t think it will be forgotten during the 2015-16 season — and “tanking’’ is already enough a part of the NBA vernacular.

Last October, the Board of Governors rejected lottery reform for 2015, but it seemed mostly because the amendment was hastily arranged. One proposal had stipulated all lottery teams could move into the top six (instead of the top three). A streamlined plan called for the teams with the six worst records to have the same lottery odds. Seemed fair.

But by this April, when the owners met again in Manhattan, the momentum for 2016 lottery change stalled. Commissioner Adam Silver said the owners decided to take it off the table for 2016, wanting to wait to evaluate a shifting NBA climate after the dramatic rise in the salary cap expected next summer. Silver added it is still on the radar to change for 2017.

It’s not soon enough. Not when Fisher gets ripped for winning games that, coupled with the bad luck of the ping-pong balls, contributed to falling to the fourth pick and wondering if the Knicks should trade down in the draft.

Not when Saunders gets hailed a hero for his 12-game, season-ending Timberwolves losing streak that could bring Okafor or Towns to town.

Let’s hope lottery reform is back on the table for 2016 to rid the NBA of the stench of “tanking.’’