Talk:Center (basketball)

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Added section on size differences in East Vs West, free throws, defense: blocks, importance of centers and recent championship teams with notable centers. 20:47, 28 April, 2007.

Added Marcus Camby and Zaza Pachulia, though Pachulia may be taken off.

Added Erick Dampier (the Man).

I took out Chris Mihm from the list of notable centers. He's definitely not in the same league as the others in the list. Julescubtree 20:05, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Looked at the edits by 24.205.37.142: I again took out Chris Mihm from the list. Re-added Amare Stoudemire, who *is* a notable center. Jamaal Magloire gets to stay by virtue of his All-Star selection. Julescubtree 23:03, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

It's becoming more of a list of starting centers in the NBA rather than notable centers. There are 21 centers there, almost 3/4 of the entire NBA. I would delete Fabricio Oberto, Mark Blount, Kendrick Perkins, Andrew Bynum, Darko Milicic, Chris Kaman and Samuel Dalembert. Pau Gasol could be added though, an All-Star and good player in international games.

nene is listed as a power forward not a center

"Shaquille O'Neal, now indisputably the greatest player in the NBA", this is an opinion and should not be included as fact.

A LOT of this article is opinions or unverifyable. Article needs major editing to bring this up to standards. There is only one source I would consider reliable, and the other "references" are pointers to nba.com. The kneejerk reaction to remove the -wikify and -unreferenced tags is pretty telling to me the type of people who edit this page. I would also try to add -selfpublished (there are about 6 links to nba.com) but someone would just remove it with a lame excuse.--Dj245 01:08, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I added some more precise tags. This article is a nightmare; I'm almost tempted to start from scratch, but will hold off for the time being.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 01:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)