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Cuban pulled fleece over Jordan's eyes

bLACKpANTHER

By bLACKpANTHER,
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Chandler’s performance so far for the Mavericks has been incredible. How much of the reason he’s playing so well is he’s healthy or because he’s in a contract year?

Yea, I went and sought him like that. I’ll tell you the whole genesis of Tyson coming here. The Bobcats had a trade with Jose Calderon in Toronto and that fell apart. I called Michael Jordan and said, “Look, we have [Erick] Dampier’s contract; we really like Tyson; would you be interested in basically swapping it? But because of the money involved, you’d have to take back Eddie [Najera] and Matt Carroll.” And he called me back 45 minutes later and we had a deal.

What we didn’t tell him was that guy who really deserves all the credit for the trade was our trainer, Casey Smith. Casey is the trainer for the U.S. Olympic team and so he’s been with Tyson this whole summer and I caught up with Casey and said, “What do you think…tell me about Tyson: about his health and about Tyson the guy.” And he said two things: one, he’s healthy. He’s got his explosiveness back and having gone through everything on the medical side, we don’t see any immediate risk; not that he couldn’t hurt himself again but no immediate ongoing risk from his previous injuries. But then he said something even more important and this kind of goes to your contract year-type thing. He said, “You know what? Tyson doesn’t get a lot of minutes on the USA team but he’s the most vocal and inspiring guy in the locker room.”

And that’s something that Donnie and I have felt we always needed to coach. And also, we needed someone who was vocal in the locker room; someone who is up off the bench and loud and exciting and getting the guys motivated and when I pulled all those pieces together, it was a no-brainer to pull the trigger on the trade.

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I do not care how Chandler plays for the Mavs or Hornets. The guy is soft and he sucks. If you don't know this you simply do not watch Bobcats games. The guy was trash all of last year sitting out with back pain and whatever else he could come up with.

He is a role player and this team has no role for him. Guy can't even set a pick, MJ should have never brought him here to begin with. Okafor is a far better player than Chandler. I'm content with Nazr, Thomas and UPS manning the middle over both of them though.

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