That jury showed her some love, all right!

Eleven-point-six million dollars worth, to be precise. That’s a lot of love, even for a woman who used to make $250,000 a year.

After the longest weekend of his life, New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas was found to have sexually harassed former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders with a workplace barrage of foul language, unwanted attention and what Thomas described, with that famously sly wink of his, as a “no-love hug.”

The money will actually come from Madison Square Garden and James Dolan, the company’s bewildered-looking chief. But the crucial exchange between Thomas and Browne Sanders unfolded at a Knicks practice in 2005.

In light of the verdict, it’s instructive to review that exchange in some detail, asking what lessons we can learn for our workplaces as well as theirs.

“I walked up,” he said from the witness stand at federal court in Manhattan, “put my left hand on her shoulder, leaned over, said, ‘Hey Nuch,’ went to give her a kiss on the cheek, and she recoiled in such a way that made me feel uncomfortable, and I said, ‘What, no love today?’ “

Among the Knicks coach’s many talents, a knack for reading the subtlety of boy-girl relations is obviously not one of them. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have found himself in this particular jam.

As he described the exchange in court, he didn’t seem to have a clue that it might cause any kind of problem for him. And he never seemed to get that the smug crack at the end was the worst part.

One lesson from this trial: The trouble often comes from the jerkish comment, even more than the behavior that precedes it.

Clearly, the jurors hadn’t bought Thomas’ full-court denials. They didn’t believe his intentions over time toward his female co-worker had been professional and fair. The jurors must have wondered – and we don’t yet know this part for certain – how a married father with a seven-figure income and obvious intelligence could so recklessly put himself in such harm’s way.

But here’s the scary truth for people on both sides of real life: the Knicks organization isn’t all that different from other workplaces. And despite the big-dollar verdict Tuesday, the rules going forward are as murky as they’ve ever been.

Is there a no-hugging rule in the modern office? Well, not exactly. There is a don’t-try-to-hug-anyone-who-might-sue-you rule. Thomas clearly broke that one.

What difference does gender make? Can women hug men more readily than men can hug women? What about female-to-female hugs? Is that harassment too?

And don’t forget the man hug. Just as this case was winding toward the courtroom, more and more guys – in the sports world especially but almost everywhere by now – are hugging each other every time you turn around.

And on and on it goes.

Foul language? Is that forbidden in the office? Yes and no. Sexual banter? Sure, it’s dicey – and it’s also everywhere.

And at what point does professional decorum, which we all have a right to expect, give way to the walk-on-eggshell office, which most of us wouldn’t want to work in? Damned if I know.

Wait! That’s not exactly right! We all think we know. We get vibes. We have instincts. We’re pretty sure we know whom we can trust.

The only rule we really learn from Isiah Thomas is the simplest one: Don’t be a jerk.