| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | 63 || 6 || 18.3 || .495 || || .765 || 3.4 || .9 || .2 || .6 || 10.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | 53 || 15 || 14.7 || .426 || || .625 || 2.3 || .4 || .2 || .4 || 6.5 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 840 || 534 || 28.4 || .505 || .000 || .760 || 6.1 || 1.3 || .6 || .6 || 15.3 Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|1987 | style="text-align:left;"|Indiana | 4 || 0 || 27.0 || .613 || || .565 || 4.0 || 2.3 || .3 || .0 || 12.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1995 | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | 10 || 0 || 17.0 || .451 || .000 || .643 || 3.0 || 1.1 || .0 || .4 || 7.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1996 | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | 4 || 0 || 16.8 || .333 || || .500 || 1.0 || .5 || .3 || .3 || 5.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1997 | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | 4 || 4 || 9.0 || .400 || || || 1.8 || .0 || .0 || .0 || 3.0 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 22 || 4 || 17.3 || .456 || .000 || .590 || 2.6 || 1.0 || .1 || .2 || 7.1 Music career Tisdale launched his music career with his debut album Power Forward in 1995 on the Motown Label. Primarily a bass player, he recorded eight albums, with the 2001 release Face to Face climbing to No. 1 on Billboard's contemporary jazz chart. He was awarded the Legacy Tribute Award by the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 2002. In an ESPN internet chat, Tisdale said his musical influences included the funk bands of the 1970s. His most recent release (and his final album before his death), Rebound, was written and released after he was diagnosed with cancer. Cancer diagnosis In March 2007, Tisdale underwent treatment for cancer in his knee (osteosarcoma), which was discovered after he fell down a flight of stairs at his home in Los Angeles on February 8, and broke his leg. In May, Tisdale announced on his website that he was recovering from a procedure to remove the cyst, and expected to recover 100%. He and Regina agreed not to tell their four children about his diagnosis until the fall of that year, when the entire family was together (their oldest daughter lives in Atlanta and their