Updated: May 3, 2012, 7:10 am ET

Chandler Thanks Knicks for Poor Defense

By HOOPSWORLD
Basketball News & NBA Rumors

Tyson Chandler stepped to the podium, accepted his trophy Wednesday as the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year and thanked his teammates ­­for facilitating the accolade.

“I would like to thank my teammates because without their poor defense and letting people fly by them I wouldn’t get credit for stepping up,” Chandler said.

He laughed, but there was more truth than humor in the statement. Chandler ended Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard’s three-year reign as top defender.

via Kevin Armstrong of the New York Daily News

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