What is really going on with Brendan Haywood

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This dude really threatens to be a disruption it appears. Unless he can get his act together or get out, then something is going to blow soon. He seems sullen and moody.

Only good thing I can say is that you do see him down before every game working at it and he does now join the rest of the team in the national anthem salute. He seems like one of these guys who just thinks they are more talented than they are and it wears on them.

Since Haywood's suspension on Nov. 26, he has mostly stayed out of the locker room before and after games when it is open to the media. After games he puts on his headphones and works out on the elliptical machine outside of the locker room. Other times he has declined requests for interviews.

Chandler said he tries to keep Haywood positive, but doesn't speak to him about his current plight.

"Not about that, moreso just encouraging him during the course of a game, encouraging him during practice," Chandler said. "If I see something, I share it with him, that kind of stuff. The other stuff, that's not my position."