There may be a new free-agent coach on the market with eyes on the Knicks job.

Pacers coach Frank Vogel, who grew up in South Jersey an admirer of Phil Jackson, is on shaky ground after losing Game 7 on Sunday night in Toronto to seal a first-round playoff exit.

Pacers president Larry Bird told the Indianapolis Star on Monday he’s unsure of his coach’s future. Vogel’s contract, according to a report by The Vertical, expires after this season, which never had been confirmed.

While Phil Jackson’s search has been extremely narrow, with Kurt Rambis still regarded the front-runner, Vogel has Zen Master ties and could be a terrific fit if available, especially if Rambis agrees to slide over as the offensive coordinator of the triangle.

“It’s no secret — I want us to score more points,” Bird told the Star on Monday. “I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Bird said a decision would be made within a week.

“What I don’t want to do is leave Frank hanging. There’s other jobs out there he could get,” Bird said.

The Knicks, Kings and Rockets currently have openings.

The defensive-minded coach always has been thought of as a Rick Pitino disciple, but in a 2013 interview with a weekly in Indiana, Vogel lavished praise on Jackson and his then-Pacers associate coach Brian Shaw, whom Jackson groomed.

“From the standpoint of studying the NBA game, I was always a big fan of Phil Jackson and his approach,” Vogel said. “Obviously, he had great players, but there were a lot of coaches with great players that didn’t win at the level he did. That was a big reason why I hired Brian Shaw. He was as close to Phil as anyone could be, and I thought I could rely on that experience, and it’s been awesome.”

Vogel was an advance scout for Jackson’s Lakers in 2005-06 — “We met once at a shootaround,” Vogel told The Post — and has been highly complimentary of the Knicks’ setup.

“He’s got a great boss, one of the legends of the game,” Vogel said last season, referring to then-coach Derek Fisher. “It’s a good situation — a long-term contract and chance to rebuild it the right way.”

A source close to Vogel admitted there could be intrigue in coaching the Knicks as his family and relatives come to all the Garden games.

The 42-year-old Vogel, a graduate of Wildwood (N.J.) High School, has a 250-181 record with the Pacers in six seasons, but Bird never has seemed a big fan. Vogel’s job was said to be in jeopardy in past years. It’s believed Bird could prefer a former player as his next coach and his former Celtics teammate Kevin McHale, fired by Houston early in the season, is on the market.

According to sources, Knicks owner James Dolan felt Vogel out-coached Mike Woodson during the Knicks’ seminal six-game playoff loss to the Pacers in 2013. The Knicks carried a 54-28 record into the second-round series before being upset — the pivotal moment coming when Carmelo Anthony was blocked at the rim by Roy Hibbert late in the fourth quarter of Game 6.

“We went in there with such poise and composure, in light of a hostile environment, and stole Game 1 in the series,” Vogel said in the magazine interview. “It really was the difference of us winning that series. … Then [in Game 6], Carmelo goes up to dunk it, and Roy Hibbert comes out of nowhere and has one of the best blocks the NBA playoffs have ever seen. And from that point forward, we controlled the game.”

The Knicks haven’t been heard from since, missing the playoffs the past three seasons under a succession of Woodson, Fisher and Rambis.

Anthony, lobbying for Jackson to continue his search, would probably be pleased with Vogel. Ironically, in a backpage story in The Post two seasons ago after a bitter loss in Indiana, Anthony praised the Pacers’ coaching staff for its halftime adjustments to which Woodson didn’t respond.

The Vertical reported the Pacers had yet to discuss an extension with Vogel. Bird looked extremely glum in the final seconds of the loss to Toronto and told the Indianapolis Star late Sunday night: “Come on, man, the game just ended.”

Sources close to Jackson have said the Zen Master appears in no rush because the Knicks don’t have a first- or second-round pick and, hence, aren’t consumed with pre-draft workouts. There’s been speculation Jackson was waiting to see whether any coaches dropped into the pool after the first round.

Jackson has interviewed Luke Walton, hired by the Lakers, and former Cavs coach David Blatt, who still is “in the mix,’’ according to an NBA source. Blatt, according to ESPN, has an interview scheduled Monday with the Kings, and the Knicks believe he will talk to the Rockets as well.