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The 31-year-old center earned an All-NBA second team selection with averages of 24.7 points, 12.6 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 1.2 steals on 55.6% shooting from the field.
HoopsHype ranks the top 25 centers ahead of the 2022-23 NBA season, including MVP favorites Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid.
"At 36 years old, the guy who has been called an "old soul" since he was in college has become a thoroughly new-age big man," writes CBS Sports.
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The center is almost always the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well. In the NBA, the center is typically close to 7 feet (2.13 m) tall; centers in the WNBA are typically above 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m). Centers traditionally play close to the basket in the low post.
In the NBA, they are usually over 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) tall. [16] Some current, notable NBA centers include Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, and Rudy Gobert. [17] The presence of a center who can score in the low post (the area closest to the basket) helps to create balance within an offense.
Yahoo Sports is breaking down the top players in the 2024 NBA Draft by position this week. On Monday, we ranked the best point guards in this class. Today, we take a look at the centers, led by ...
Yasutaka Okayama, a 7-foot-8-inch (2.34 m) Japanese basketball player picked 171st overall in the seventh round of the 1981 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, is the tallest player to ever be drafted for the NBA. [2] However, he never played in the NBA. [3]