Debunking the Myth of Tyler Hansbrough

If you like this piece, please take a look (and bookmark) my blog, The Atlantic Coast Constant at acconstant.blogspot.com . He's not athletic. North Carolina listed him taller than he actually is. He has T-Rex arms. He (as a white man) can't jump. Throughout Tyler Hansbrough's entire career at North Carolina, these have been the almost universally accepted pot shots at the 2008 consensus National Player of the Year . And I will admit, save for the first one, I believed all of them. I also believed, like almost everyone out there, that Blake Griffin was a freak that no NBA team should pass on. He was taller and much more athletic than Hansbrough with a body more suited for the NBA (no comments were ever made of his being undersized or having short arms). So when I read NBA.com's look at the power forwards , I was very intrigued by the tale of the tape. Height: Griffin, 6-foot-10; Hansbrough, 6-foot-9 1/2 (A half inch taller than his UNC-listed height) Weight: Griffin, 248 pounds; ... (link)