Top 10 NBA centers of all time

[kyear2]

@Patience and Accuracy+Gut made some interesting points in another thread. Want to see how far that goes. Using any criteria you like, who's the top 10 centers of all time.

Can also indicate in the poll, who's the greatest.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

1. Wilt
2. Dream
3. Kareem
4. Shaq
5. Russell

If I were to start a team, that’s the 5 center I would go in order.

 

[OverratedSanity]

1) Kareem
2) Russell
3) Hakeem
4) Shaq
5) Jokic
6) Wilt
7) Moses
8) Robinson
9) Walton
10) Ewing

 

[Ali TT]

1) Brian O'Driscoll
2) Ma'a Nonu
3) Tim Horan
4) Jeremy Guscott

 

[andruid]

1. Mario Lemieux
2. Steve Yzerman
3. Sidney Crossman
4. Joe Sakic
5. Mike Modano

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Kareem

 

[kyear2]

1) Kareem
2) Russell
3) Hakeem
4) Shaq
5) Jokic
6) Wilt
7) Moses
8) Robinson
9) Walton
10) Ewing

Russell over the Dream is for me a classic, one is greater, but Olajuwon is definely greater, at least to me.

Robinson a bit low?

 

[shortpitched713]

Kareem was who I picked based on body of work.

But out of all the players I've ever seen, prime Shaq was the most unstoppable. Post entry into automatic 1-2 points was gold back in the late 90s early 2000s stranglehold defense era. Not to mention you're absolutely shattering the ability of their bigs to play defense through constant foul trouble.

 

[Coronis]

Kareem
Russell
Wilt
Shaq
Olajuwon
Jokic
Malone
Robinson
Ewing
Mikan

Kareem I would say is greater. But Russell is the one I’d want on my team. Olajuwon and Shaq very close. Could swap them another day.

 

[kyear2]

Kareem was who I picked based on body of work.

But out of all the players I've ever seen, prime Shaq was the most unstoppable. Post entry into automatic 1-2 points was gold back in the late 90s early 2000s stranglehold defense era. Not to mention you're absolutely shattering the ability of their bigs to play defense through constant foul trouble.

Kareem
Russell
Wilt
Shaq
Olajuwon
Jokic
Malone
Robinson
Ewing
Mikan

Kareem I would say is greater. But Russell is the one I’d want on my team. Olajuwon and Shaq very close. Could swap them another day.

Kareem and Olajuwon were the only ones without a glaring weakness.

Russell wasn't a great shot, Shaq And Wilt were physically dominant but couldn't hit free throws, plus Shaq was the least dominant defensively.

I'm building ab AT squad of 12, the 3 centers I would have to select would be The Captain, The Big Dipper and the Dream.