Teams are approaching the Orlando Magic about acquiring six-time all-star Grant Hill.

Hill has been trying to overcome a career-threatening ankle injury for four years and has had four separate surgeries to repair damage to the ankle.

"I've had four or five teams call about Grant," Magic general manager John Weisbrod told the Orlando Sentinel Wednesday at the Chicago pre-Draft camp.

"It's a little surprising,? Weisbrod said.

Either Hill will be able to play and contribute or his big contract could create huge salary cap relief.  This is the thinking of team executives who have contacted the Magic about putting together a deal.

If Hill cannot play in the 2004-05 season or he does not play in more than 10 games, his cap number comes off the books next January for the team that has Hill under contract.  

Hill would still collect all the remaining cash on the seven-year, $93 million deal.

The teams that have contacted Weisbrod about Hill may, in exchange, want the Magic's No. 1 pick or to unload their own undesirable contracts on the Magic.

The Magic may also leave Hill unprotected in the Expansion Draft which would allow the Charlotte Bobcats to pick him up.  

The Bobcats would not want to build their team around Hill but could seek to select him and then deal him away as part of a pre-arranged trade with a third club.

Weisbrod would not say whether Hill's name would be on the protected-players list that the Magic must submit to the NBA league office by the end of the week.  

Hill said he "gets the feeling he is not" on the list.