If only the Knicks could make it rain like this.
Scores of Knicks fans subjected themselves to stormy weather at the Central Park fan watch party Friday night that was made all the more dreadful by the team’s loss to the Indiana Pacers in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Over 1,000 Knicks faithful walked away from the SummerStage with sopping socks and dashed hopes as the hometown team dropped another game at Madison Square Garden — but some fans still believe the sun will come out tomorrow, kind of.
“I have faith, kind of,” Upper West Sider Shohan Zucker, 18, told The Post, adding, “I’m not feeling great.
“Brunson can’t be our only savior. We have to have other people making stops and getting shots.”
Other fans were ready to come to grips with squandering home court advantage and dropping behind two games to a hated archrival.
“It was very crushing,” Upper East Sider Zephan Rya, 18, said.
During the watch party, fans stayed hopeful despite the bad weather, worse play from the Knicks and technical problems at SummerStage that lasted 10 minutes during the second quarter.
“Fix the sound! Fix the sound!,” fans chanted before it was remedied.
Down the stretch, poncho-clad hoopheads mustered chants of “DEFENSE!” — cheering on star Brunson and longest-tenured Knick Mitchell Robinson, who elated the crowd with his standout performance in the losing effort.
After the game, fans streamed out of the park with rain down their backs and tears down their cheeks.
This wasn’t the only outdoor watch party on Friday, as Citi Field threw the Knicks game on the jumbotron during a rain delay in the Mets game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to the Amazins’ X account.
The Knicks fan watch parties were moved to the bigger SummerStage venue after last week’s Game 6 victory over the Boston Celtics — an elation that now seems to be from a different season entirely.
After that win, fans turned Seventh Avenue into Knicks Valhalla, climbing poles, lighting Celtics jerseys on fire and hectoring a Pacers fan — who will be Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton’s guest in Indiana for Game 3.
The Knicks now travel to Indiana to play at the Fieldhouse in Game 3 on Sunday night.
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