They say there just aren’t as many good centers anymore these days. It’s true, there’s only a handful of them, and many of them look like they’d have played power forward if they lived a generation earlier. I feel like we’ve been saying that about basketball for years now though. Could it be that there’s always been a shortage of solid, true centers and we’ve just always remembered there being more great ones before them? I’ve decided to put it to the test. Here I’ll list the top ten centers in the game, in my opinion, and then work our way back each decade. Let’s see if the quantity / quality of centers in the game has gone down over the years….

2010

• Dwight Howard
• Andrew Bogut
• Marcus Camby
• Chris Kaman
• Al Horford
• Amare Stoudemire
• Andris Biedrins
• Nene
• Roy Hibbert
• Brendan Haywood

2000

• Shaquille O’Neal
• Alonzo Mourning
• Dikembe Mutombo
• David Robinson
• Dale Davis
• Vlade Divac
• Antonio Davis
• Michael Olowokandi
• Theo Ratliff
• Ervin Johnson

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