About a year and a half after Knicks primary owner James Dolan coaxed Phil Jackson out of retirement with a five-year, $60 million deal to take over as president of basketball operations in 2014, the Korn Ferry Institute, which specializes in executive recruitment and leadership development programs, published an article about the difficulties of being a general manager of a professional sports franchise.
It had the headline: “Great GMs are made, not born.”
One of the experts quoted in the article was Bill Polian, a fomer general manager of the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers and Indianapolis Colts.