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Originally Posted by bobatundi
Actually, in 8 of his 11 years in the league, he's played in 87% or more of his team's games, with a median of 90%. The past two seasons (90%, 94%) are not outliers. The prior two (55%, 62%) are the outliers.
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Nice try, but unfortunately, it neglects the fact that in the 10 seasons the Mavs had to look at prior to Chandler departing for the Knicks, he had 3 seasons where he missed significant portions of the season. You can't use a results oriented argument based on Chandler's results from this season and fault the Mavs for what they did this past off season.
He's a nice player, but you're committing a solid chunk of your cap space (>25%) to a player who hasn't demonstrated consistently that he can stay healthy.