[Old General Record] Tyson Chandler: The former glory of New York!

For every fan, there is always such a player in his heart. He walks slowly in time and plays for a city and a team for many years, but in the end he will only choose to leave. After all, there is no banquet that never ends, and not every player can get the opportunity to hand over his life loyalty to a city or a team.

Even though their fate has gradually faded away from this team, as fans, many years later, we will try to recall the time we worked together.

For the second-tier pick in 2001, Tyson Chandler spent 20 seasons in the NBA, playing for eight teams, from Chicago, who started his career in the NBA, to Dallas, he fulfilled the highest dream of an NBA player to win the championship, and returned to the Lakers near his hometown, and then bid farewell to the league after the Rockets studded for a season.

In this long career, Chandler is the most memorable stage. In addition to the 2010-11 season when the Mavericks won the championship, it was probably his three seasons in the Knicks, which can be said to be his most glorious moment.

The story starts from the most wonderful second. As the Mavericks complete the first championship in the team's history in the 2010-11 season, the problem follows. While planning for the team's future, they also need to find ways to deal with the whereabouts of the heroes of the team who entered the free market after winning the championship. This naturally includes the inside Optimus Prime Chandler.

Considering Chandler's age at that time and the emergence of a group of big-name free agents in the free market in 2012 after the brand new labor-management, the Mavericks were only willing to provide Chandler with a two-year contract, which was far from Chandler's expected four-year contract. Even though he had a deep affection for Dallas, Chandler resolutely decided to join the free market and find another place after the negotiations were deadlocked.

Among many teams such as the Warriors, Rockets, and Nets that have a strong interest in Chandler, the Knicks have always been Chandler's first choice.

At that time, the Knicks did have a perfect plan, giving up Billups and Ronnie Turiaf, freeing up salary space to sign Chandler, and traded S to New Orleans Hornets for Chris Paul, hoping to replicate the pick-and-roll threat of the Hornets in New York. Although Paul was eventually traded to the Clippers, the Knicks still brought Chandler to New York in a three-party transaction as they wished.

In this transaction, the Knicks gave Turiav, additional cash special case and 2013 second-round draft pick to the Wizards, and traded Andy Rottings to the Mavericks, who signed first and then traded Chandler for four years of 56 million. In addition, in order to make enough salary space to accept Chandler's new contract, the Knicks launched an amnesty clause to sack Billups.

With Chandler's joining, the Knicks formed a combination of Anthony, Sir Jr. and Chandler, and gradually began to have the team to challenge the championship.

For Chandler, it is a rare opportunity to join forces with the Knicks, so when the Knicks expressed their interest in Chandler's recruitment, Chandler always regarded the Knicks as his next choice:

"When this opportunity appears, I can't refuse. This is a young team, a team that will become better and better in a few years from now on. My whole goal is to win the championship and fight for one. I just can't give up this opportunity."

When Chandler was at the Knicks media press conference, he directly stated:

"I will let everyone start to defend well."

And this is exactly what the Knicks longed for his joining to make changes. In the 2010-11 season, the Knicks' defensive data were actually in the second half of the league, with 40.5 rebounds per game, ranking 20th in the NBA; the opponent's average shooting percentage was 47.2%, ranking 26th in the NBA; the opponent's average penalty area scored 46 points, ranking second to the bottom in the NBA.

According to the stadium law of winning the championship with defense, Chandler brought exactly what the Knicks did not have, in response to the Knicks coach D'Antoni's statement:

"After getting Chandler, we became stronger, and it was really fast."

In the 2011-12 season, the Knicks immediately became the focus of the league, but the popularity basically came from another legendary story called Lin Crazy. But every Knicks player knows that Chandler is the most unnecessarily overlooked in the Knicks. In addition to grabbing every rebound on the court, giving opponents a crazy block, performing every pick-and-roll attack steadily, and even in places where the camera cannot see, teammates in the locker room off the court get along, and the team's defensive culture is established, Chandler has been doing his best to help the Knicks.

From the time of the time, this was definitely one of the few free market reinforcements for the Knicks. On the practical level, Chandler blocks every attack from his opponent like a fortress. Compared to before Chandler came to the Knicks, the Knicks, who had Chandler, had completely transformed.

In the 2010-11 season, the Knicks scored a defensive efficiency value of 109 points, ranking 23rd in the NBA. From the 2011-12 season to the 2013-14 season when Chandler lasted his last season with the Knicks, the team's defensive efficiency values were 100.2 points (fifth in the league), 105.4 points (fifth in the league), and 108.1 points (fifth in the league).

Considering the poor performance of Sir and Anthony on the defensive end, Chandler can be said to be dedicated to the role of the Knicks' guardian of the penalty area..

It is obvious that starting from the day of joining the Knicks, Chandler shouted "changing defense" words: Chandler won the Best Defensive Player in the 2011-12 season, and was selected for the Best Defensive Second Team and the Best Team 3; in the 2012-13 season, he was selected for the Best Defensive First Team and was selected for the All-Star.

In his three seasons with the Knicks, the Knicks reached two playoffs, one stopped in the first round and the other reached the semi-finals; and he scored 67.9% shooting percentage in 2012-13, the highest since Chamberlain's 68.3% shooting percentage in 1966-67 and 72.7% shooting percentage in 1972-73. But unfortunately, Chandler still failed to fulfill his second championship dream in the Knicks, but he still left enough in New York and did enough things.

Everything is as Chandler once said:

"I want to accomplish what I said after joining this team, so I have to be the best I can be. I take it seriously, and this is my only task."

From the time, the time when Chandler put on the Knicks' jersey was also one of the few glorious moments for the Knicks in recent years. As for what has not been completed, it is still full of regrets. In the end, the Knicks gave up, which was caused by the injury factors, but other problems also existed.

As the team failed for years and the players performed poorly, some negative comments gradually began to appear on Chandler. Some said that Chandler criticized the head coach's defensive strategy too fiercely, and some said that Chandler was a hidden danger of instability in the Knicks locker room atmosphere. Many media said bluntly that teammates such as Anthony and JR Smith pointed the team's finger at Chandler.

When the Knicks chose to trade Chandler back to the Mavericks, Chandler himself was indeed full of confusion and even dissatisfaction:

"I don't know why they did this, only they can answer this question. I have moved forward and never paid attention to anything anymore. I know a lot of media will come to ask me about me and the former team. But frankly, I put everything behind my head, it's already a thing of the past."

Chandler even publicly stated that he was indeed dissatisfied with his performance, but felt that he had become the scapegoat for the team. But on the other hand, there are still many people supporting Chandler. Cuban, then-Mavericks boss, commented sarcastically after regaining Chandler: "Yes, he has such a bad influence. I can see why the Knicks want to get rid of him." In the end, all this was attributed to Phil Jackson's appointment and the arrival of a new era that the Knicks claimed to the outside world. After the passage of time, Chandler seems to have felt a lot more relieved when talking about this matter. Although this story between Chandler and the Knicks ended in imperfection, it is undeniable that it is a deep enough and beautiful memory.

No matter how long it takes, New York fans should remember the figure of the center who worked hard on the court and then rushed into the penalty area to catch the ball and dunk it directly. Especially the shocking moment when he shouted to the sky, the desire for victory and the determination to do his best, this was the honorary moment that New York fans were most proud of.