Former Knicks guard Dick Barnett has something Phil Jackson doesn’t have — his Knicks jersey retired in the Garden rafters.
But in reflecting on the Zen Master’s failure as Knicks president, Barnett, who wore No. 12, wondered why Jackson never once consulted with him nor another backcourt legend, Walt Frazier, during his futile 3½-year stint as club president.
It was a 1970s championship reunion of sorts Monday at the Museum of Natural History as Barnett, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe and Frazier gathered to help honor former teammate Bill Bradley at the Hospital of Special Surgery’s annual tribute gala.