A long profile in the New York Times casted the executive Steve Mills as an expert networker with a long and distinguished career in the sports industry, whose success as team president and GM in the narrative of the New York Knicks’ upcoming season will be measured by his ability to to placate Jim Dolan, the team’s billionaire owner, and convince Carmelo Anthony, the team’s superstar, to choose not to opt out of his contract and become a free agent.The profile also consisted of news regarding Mills’ time away from Madison Square Garden: Mills, who was Black Enterprise’s 2003 Corporate Executive of the Year, had helped Magic Johnson Enterprises create the Athletes & Entertainers Wealth Management Group, LLC.“By all accounts a savvy businessman, Mills has a new job, perhaps his most high-pressure position to date,” the Times reported. “As president and general manager of the Knicks, Mills will need to please a lot of hard-to-please people, including two in particular: James L. Dolan, the team’s capricious owner, and Carmelo Anthony, who can opt out of his contract next summer and become a free agent. It will be a high-wire act.”The Times talked to Craig Robinson, the Oregon State mens basketball…