Before signing with the Suns, before the Olympic gold medal and NBA championship, before being drafted second overall straight out of high school in 2001, before he had everything, Tyson Chandler had next to nothing.
He didn't know it early in his childhood. Chandler's family lived on a farm outside of Fresno, Calif., where he learned to do what most kids of his generation only knew from their parents stories, the ones that usually started with "I remember when..." He picked cotton, milked cows, and slopped pigs, not knowing nor wondering what it would be like to have more or less.