DALLAS -- Coach Rick Carlisle, who understands Tyson Chandler's bitter feelings toward the Mavericks, hopes that the center's No. 6 jersey will one day be retired by the franchise despite spending only two one-season stints in Dallas.
"My opinion is he's worthy and more than worthy, based on history and just because he's such a special person on top of it," Carlisle said after Wednesday's shootaround before Chandler and the Phoenix Suns visit the American Airlines Center for a preseason game.
Mavs owner Mark Cuban, the one-man committee who decides which numbers are retired in Dallas, twice opted not to make Chandler a priority in free agency when the big man hoped to re-sign with the Mavs.