Dwight Howard thinks he, not Tyson Chandler, deserved Defensive Player of the Year last season

After anchoring the Dallas Mavericks’ swarming, matchup-zone-loving defense that stifled the Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City Thunder and Miami Heat en route to the 2010-11 NBA championship, center Tyson Chandler struck it rich in free agency, landing a four-year, $58 million contract to lead the New York Knicks to the upper echelon of NBA defenses. He did just that in his first year in the Big Apple, as we discussed in last week’s Knicks season preview; his reward for dragging the Knicks to the league’s fifth-best defensive rating was the first Defensive Player of the Year Award of his career.

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