New York Knicks: Presenting the All-Decade team
Center: Tyson Chandler
After contributing a major part in the Dallas Mavericks defeating the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals, Tyson Chandler was acquired by the Knicks via a sign-and-trade.
Upon arriving in The Big Apple, Chandler would instantly impress as the new starting center and defensive anchor of the team and would end up having the best season of his NBA career.
Chandler managed to win the Defensive Player of the Year award which helped him be included in the All-NBA Third Team at the end of the season. To top it all off, Tyson Chandler would lead the league in field goal percentage, shooting a whopping 67.9 percent from the field.
On the following season, he would earn his one and only All-Star selection on a very strong Knicks team. Chandler remains the most recent member of the Knicks to play in the All-Star Game other than Carmelo Anthony.
Even though the Tyson Chandler experiment did not quite work out as well as it appeared on paper, you still have to recognize that he transformed this team defensively.
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They rose from the seventh seed all the way up to the second seed and to being one of the strongest teams in the league.