The Future Bigness

Knicks 33 was on the money when he said the death of the big man is highly exagerated.

So this chart may be so small that this post is useless, but here is a look at all the promising or ought to be promising NBA centers under age 27. Why 27? 27 is when most cats hit their prime. I also put these guys roughly in order of how I currently rank em for this season.



Imagine what a strange end-of-the-center atmosphere was it when Dampier said he was the games number 2 pivot after Shaq. Of course he was dead wrong even then, as demonstrated by Amare throwing down 40 on his sorry bean. But now with an impressive crop of seasoned young centers under age 27, the perfectly decent Dampier is barely in the game’s top 20.

The stats worshipping John Hollinger does a nice little piece on a similar theme.

Speaking of Hollinger, my argument about his clowniness needs no further evidence than his #7 rating of Bill Russell on an All-Time center list. The point of the game is to win not to fill the stat sheet, Mr. Stat man.