The New York Knicks made the kind of history on Saturday that Phil Jackson probably wants no part of.

New York lost its 60th game of the season against the Chicago Bulls Saturday night. That’s the highest loss total in the franchise’s 69-year history.

Jackson earlier this month said this of his team: “They’re not talented enough to win a 48-minute game.”

He wasn’t kidding. The Knicks have lost seven straight and 14 of 16.

All the losing and the misery of this season should benefit the Knicks in June.

At 14-60, New York has the worst record in the NBA. They are three games ahead of Minnesota (16-56) in the race for the league's worst record.

If the Knicks finish with sole possession of the NBA’s worst record, they will be guaranteed to pick no lower than fourth in June's draft. They will also have a 25 percent chance to land the No. 1 pick.

So who will they select?

Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns, Duke's Jahlil Okafor and Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell are considered the top prospects.

On Saturday, Kentucky’s Towns had 25 points on 10-for-13 shooting in the Wildcats’ win over Notre Dame in the Elite Eight.

The Knicks will surely consider Towns if they end up with a top pick.

According to league sources, there was a stretch in between mid February and March that New York had a scout or executive at Kentucky’s practices or games for approximately 20 of the 30 opportunities.

In addition to the draft, the Knicks will also have at least $25 million to spend in free agency this summer.

So Jackson will have an opportunity to put together a team that can contend for a playoff spot next season.

Losing 60 games, of course, wasn’t Jackson’s plan coming into the season.

He said prior to the season that he believed the Knicks would make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference.

Later, when it became clear that the Knicks weren’t going to contend for the postseason, Jackson traded J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert to Cleveland for two second-round draft picks and two trade exceptions.

Days later, Jackson offered a “mea culpa” to the fan base for the way things went south in his first full season as president. He also explained why he thought the Knicks would be a playoff team.

“In the East, we looked at teams that were under .500 [as teams] that could compete [for the playoffs],” Jackson said. “It wasn’t a really big challenge, a challenge I thought this team was capable of. They obviously weren’t.”

Now, the question for the Knicks is whether Jackson is up to the challenge of turning this mess around.