Photo: Dick Raphael/NBAE/Getty Images The last time the New York Knicks were in a position to win the NBA Finals , the league looked very different. It was 1973, there was no three-point line, and Jalen Brunson’s father — a former Knick and now an assistant coach — was about to turn 1. Bill Bradley was the small forward on that 1973 Knicks team, scoring 20 points in the win that clinched the championship over the Los Angeles Lakers. He has achieved much in his life: a championship in ’70 and ’