SAN FRANCISCO — A trip to central California meant two reunions for Donte DiVincenzo, one with fonder feelings than the other.
In Golden State, where the Knicks play Monday night, the sentiment toward the organization is all warm and fuzzy.
The Warriors helped resurrect DiVincenzo’s career last season, providing an opportunity that got him the big payday with the Knicks, worth roughly $50 million with four years of security.
In Sacramento, where DiVincenzo played briefly in 2022, the history is soured by the Kings rescinding a qualifying offer just days before free agency.
The organization basically gave up on DiVincenzo.
So before Saturday’s game in Sacramento, Tom Thibodeau had a conversation with his starting shooting guard about perspective.
“Not like anything crazy. Just something quick,” DiVincenzo told The Post. “Just a reminder, don’t get too locked in — because everyone knows you want to try so hard to beat your former team, stick it to them. But at the end of the day, when I’m at my best I’m focused on this locker room and making the right plays.”
DiVincenzo then dropped 15 points against the Kings. He didn’t shoot well — missing 11 of his 16 attempts, continuing a cold stretch for the 27-year-old — but the Knicks won and DiVincenzo improved to 5-1 against the Kings since they dropped him.
DiVincenzo said the matchup felt more personal last season while “it was still kind fresh of them going in a different direction.”
On Saturday night, following his chat with Thibodeau, “It was clear for me mentally, I wasn’t worried about what they had going on over there,” DiVincenzo said.
The Warriors reunion is all love. Stephen Curry helped recruit DiVincenzo and they all stay in touch.
“I watch a lot of their games because they’re on the West Coast so we play our game and they’re usually on afterwards,” DiVincenzo said. “Keep in touch with a lot of those guys. That’s pretty much it. It’s just a personal relationship rather than — there’s no like extra motivation or anything like that.”
DiVincenzo averaged 9.4 points in his lone season with the Warriors, although the team’s campaign was derailed by Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole in a practice.
“Everybody had been there for so long. Me, I’m just coming in. I was try to keep my head down,” DiVincenzo said. “I was trying to spread as much positivity as I could. And I still talk to everybody. I talk to Draymond. I talk to Jordan. It is what it is. It happened.”
With Julius Randle still out indefinitely, DiVincenzo remains the No. 2 scoring option for the Knicks but his current slump — which resulted in 33.8 percent shooting the last eight games — necessitated help from newcomers.
Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks finally got off the schneid on Saturday against the Kings.
And while the bar is low — they shot just a combined 8-for-21 — it was necessary to victory because Jalen Brunson couldn’t play 48 minutes and their production was timely in the fourth quarter.
“It’s huge for us. We know both guys are gifted shotmakers,” Thibodeau said. “It’s hard with in-season trades, but you know what they’ve done throughout their careers. We’re fortunate to have gotten them. [Saturday] was a good day because those are big shots, and they’re timely shots.”
Burks had logged just more than four minutes in the previous game in Portland, the fewest minutes for him in five years. It was the culmination of an ugly stretch of games soon after he was acquired from the Pistons.
But in Sacramento, he played more than 18 minutes and the Knicks outscored the Kings by 13 points with Burks on the court.