Forced to sing the blues in a salty opening period, the New York Knicks avoided getting stung in the Beehive State.

Jordan Clarkson took things personally in his return to Salt Lake City as the Knicks survived a scare from the downtrodden Utah Jazz en route to a 134-117 victory at the Delta Center. The Knicks (42-25) secured their fourth consecutive winning season, their longest such streak since going a decade without one from 1991 to 2001.

A rare metropolitan showcase from Clarkson, who played more than 10 minutes just six times since February tipped off (and was kept out of seven games in that span entirely), led the Knicks back from a deficit that shockingly reached as high as 18 before blue-and-orange sanity prevailed.

Clarkson shone in his first showing in Utah, his professional home for the past six seasons: he put up a season-best 27 points, most of them on a 7-for-8 performance during the second-half comeback.

Having also pulled in five offensive boards, Clarkson was one of four Knicks to score at least 20; that quartet was paced by Jalen Brunson’s 28 after he found his shooting groove despite missing seven of his first eight.

Utah spent the first half perhaps defying the accusations that it was tanking to secure a better draft pick. The Knicks earned the first points of the game on a Mikal Bridges name, but that was probably the one thing that went right in one of their ugliest periods of the year.

Hitting nine of their first 11 tries from deep, a good part of a 20-8 run that extended into the final minute of the first, allowed the Jazz to build a shocking lead.

Brice Sensabaugh sank each of his first five tries with an extra point on the line, carrying the load with most of the Salt Lake City headliners sitting out. Every time the Knicks raised a run, with Brunson making up for his shooting with trips to the foul line and Karl-Anthony Towns taking the offensive burden, it seemed like Utah had a response, especially one of the deep variety.

The Jazz’s lead remained at double figures as late as 7:24 in the third period.

But the Knicks finally got things back on track over the final three-plus minutes of the third, ending the quarter on a 13-4 run. The closing triple from Brunson, sunk in the period’s penultimate second, allowed the Knicks fans staging their usual invasion in downtrodden locales to break out of their shell.

Utah’s momentum was partly derailed by the Knicks’ creation of second chances (Mitchell Robinson made five of his 13 rebounds offensively) by the medically induced departure of young building block Keyonte George, who endured a leg injury in the third.

Clarkson would then score the first seven points of the third, and the Knicks never looked back, as the difference never dipped below seven after that.

Following George’s departure, the Knicks outscored Utah 55-32 and shot 16-of-23 over the last dozen. The remaining Jazz fans were at least able to give Clarkson a hearty send-off, following a video tribute earlier in the game.

With the win, the Knicks tied their all-time series with the Jazz and secured a sweep of the annual interconference pair after a December drubbing at Madison Square Garden. Sensabaugh led the way with 29 points as he and Ace Bailey united for 11 triples.

The Jazz (20-46) had little in terms of an update on George, who went straight to the locker room after playing futile defense on an OG Anunoby steal-turned-Towns fastbreak.

The Knicks close out this rollercoaster road trip on Friday night when they face the eliminated Indiana Pacers (7:30 p.m. ET, MSG).