In the late 1960s and ’70s, the black-and-white Zenith television in the Breen family home just outside of the Bronx in Yonkers always had a game on.It was a grand time in New York sports, as the Mets were pitching miracles and the Knicks won their last championships with a rotation of stars, featuring Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Willis Reed and Bill Bradley.John and Mary Breen had a full starting lineup of their own, even throwing in a sixth man for good measure. The Breens were a family of six boys.John, a former Marine and a steam fitter, rooted for the Mets, Giants, Rangers and Knicks. The boys followed their late dad’s gregarious lead.The fourth of John and Mary’s boys, Mike, was born in 1961, and was just 8 during the glorious orange-and-blue clad New York year of 1969, when the “Miracle Mets” won the World Series and the Knicks tipped off an NBA season that would end with the franchise’s — and the Big Apple’s — first NBA championship. He was hooked.Nearly every day, Mike wore his No. 3 Mets shirt in honor of his favorite player, the scrappy shortstop Bud Harrelson.A young Mike Breen in his ubiquitous Mets shirt. (Mike Breen)Mike and his brothers had an affinity for Frazier and also loved the Knicks’ enforcer, Dave DeBusschere, whom young Mike thought was the second toughest man in town, after his dad.Between the Knicks title in 1969-70 and 1972-73, when Mike was 10, the family purchased a poster of Frazier. Mary – now 93, and whom Mike describes as the selfless head coach of the family – still lives in the house in Yonkers, and never misses watching her son’s games. The poster of Frazier remains up in the mud room a mere 55 years later.This is the TV backdrop of the forthcoming NBA Finals as Breen, the voice of both the Knicks on their regional cable broadcasts and ESPN’s top NBA national booth, will call his hometown team on ABC starting Wednesday.There is a little more to it, as the tale of the boy from Yonkers has some of the same up-and-down flair of the Knicks and Mets during his Hall of Fame career. If not for Breen’s strong dad and one of his best friends – who made a pretty good name for himself in the sportscasting world – Breen probably isn’t on the call for Game 1 in Oklahoma City or San Antonio. The Knicks in The Finals has been a long time coming, and Breen knows it as well as anyone.“I’m so happy for the fan base because there were so many nights where they were dreadful, one of the worst teams in the league,” Breen said. “The fans never went away.”Breen called the 1994 NBA Finals on New York radio when the Knicks lost to the Houston Rockets in an agonizing seven games. In 1999, he did not call the Finals as the legendary Marv Albert had the radio call as the upstart, 8-seed Knicks lost to the Spurs in five games. From the Ewing era to the Allan Houston years, the Knicks were consistently really good, but not championship quality, before the bottom dropped out for nearly a quarter century, save for a few highlights from Carmelo Anthony and Jeremy Lin.