The New York Knicks stand on the brink of a third NBA championship — their first since the glory days of the 1970s, when Phil Jackson was part of a title-winning squad that defined the franchise's golden era.
More than five decades after the Knicks captured their last NBA championship, Phil Jackson's words still capture the mindset that drove that 1973 team. Speaking after the Knicks defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1973 NBA Finals, he told The New York Times: 'We just knew all year that we would win.'
