If you think the Knicks will reach the NBA Finals this year, or even return to the Eastern Conference Finals like last year, I’ve got a three-legged chair I’d like to sell you.  The Nova Knicks run is over. Two iterations of it have failed. The second, you could argue, is worse than the first. At least there was hope with Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo. Replacing DiVincenzo with Mikal Bridges has shut Brunson’s championship window this season and left little opening for future years. Now, no matter the ultimate result of the Hawks-Knicks series, we must admit it’s time to end the New York Nova experiment. It was a fun run; it brought the Knicks back to relevance, which is far better than the previous decade of poking a lifeless franchise with a stick. That run has taken the Knicks as far as it can go.  That fact has become plainly evident in the three games played against the Hawks thus far. Bridges has a plus-minus of minus-23.…