09/10/2009 - 15:07
Everything Feels Good
by Devon Jeffreys

The summer is winding to a close and, for Tyson Chandler, that means he's that much closer to NBA basketball again.

After frustrating 2008-2009 season, Tyson is excited for a fresh start and the 2009-2010 season, his first in Charlotte as a Bobcat, offers him that opportunity.

NBA.com’s Scott Howard Cooper caught up with TC recently and wrote about Ty’s move to Charlotte:

“I’m excited. I’m very excited,” Tyson said. “First of all, I’m excited to play under coach [Larry] Brown. I had a chance to talk to him and I’m excited that he respects my game as much as he does. I’m excited to learn. I’m excited to play with a lot of young players. I feel like I’ve got an opportunity to get there and take ‘em over the hump and really make a playoff push.”

TC is also hungry for the challenge of helping the Bobcats reach the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, as Cooper writes:

“Training camp can’t get here quick enough. It’s an opportunity to push the Bobcats into the postseason, it is also a chance to feel settled for the first time in about a year, and maybe even in seasons. Chicago 2005-06, New Orleans/Oklahoma City with the Hornets in 2006-07, New Orleans in 2007-08, and the soft ground of 2008-09.”

To read Cooper’s entire piece, in which Ty also speaks on leaving New Orleans behind and dealing with the trade winds that surrounded him all year, click here.

CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
In the most recent post to his, widely popular blog, “Too Much Rod Benson,” NBA D-leaguer Rod Benson writes about a friend, Mike Fey, who is constantly mistaken for Tyson and gets plenty of special attention for it, it even got to the point where he had an ex-NBA player convinced.

“He once told me that he was in Vegas at a club, and a couple different guys came up to him and asked if he was Tyson. He kept saying no, but his boys started getting annoyed. Finally someone came up and before he could say no, his boy said, “Yeah, it is.”

That guy then left and started telling everyone in the club that Tyson Chandler was in the building. Pretty soon, Mike was getting flooded with autograph requests (which I assume he fulfilled considering the fact that he didn’t want to be a jerk or make Tyson look like one). Then, true story, Chris Webber gets word and comes up to Mike — err, umm, “Tyson” — and invites him into his booth. Then the DJ of the club says over the loudspeaker: “Hey, shout out to C-Webb and Tyson Chandler!”

Benson goes on to write that Fey eventually told C-Webb he wasn’t the real Tyson. But living in LA and looking like an NBA baller does have its benefits.

Check out Rod Benson’s contributions to noted NBA Blog, Ball Don’t Lie, and be the judge whether Mike Fey really does look like Tyson.

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