Jordan to the Wizards.  Bird to the Pacers.  West in Memphis. Isiah in Detroit and Indiana.  

While in most cases legacy's of certain individuals are tied to one particlar organization, the NBA is fast becoming a place where it is extremely rare if one's services do not span more than one team throughout their professional careers, both playing and non-playing.

Keeping this in mind, is it any real suprise that Magic Johnson has linked himself as possibly the next GM of the New York Knicks?

While Garden boss James Dolan has publicly been voicing his loyalty towards current GM Scott Layden, George Willis of the New York Post writes that Johnson would certainly listen if contacted about the position witht he Knicks.

"If they ever call, you would definitely listen to them because I love the city," Johnson said. "With the city and the crowds, they deserve to have a great team here."

Johnson has watched the Knicks turn from contenders into pretenders at a rapid rate, and if given the opportunity he knows he could make a difference.

"You have to take a different approach than you've been taking," he said. "It's going to take some creative thinking because of where they are salary-cap-wise. You have to ask people to take less money to believe in your goal. But people want to play here. It's New York. The history of basketball is in the Knicks, so you've got to sell that history. You've got to sell it to the players and to the people. But you've got to have a salesman."

Magic Johnson still owns a minority stake of the Los Angeles Lakers, and thinks he can strive in the position of being boss of an NBA team after watching every move made by ex-GM Jerry West while he was with the Lakers.  West was able to transform the Lakers from a lottery team into the three time champions they are today seemingly overnight via two swift moves, and Johnson believes he can combine this knowledge along with his business knowledge for the sake of his team.

"Being an owner, I know the business side, I know the sponsorship side, I know the marketing side, I know the TV side and most importantly, I know players and I know basketball," Johnson said. "People think I'm not interested in [being a GM] because I'm doing all this business stuff. But I'm waiting until the right situation comes. If the right opportunity came about, I would look at it and definitely be a part of it because this is the game I love."