Top 5 Greatest NBA Centers of All Time

The team's abbreviation is the team which the center spent the most time with.
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Team
Player
MIL/LAL
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
BOS
Bill Russell
PHI/LAL
Wilt Chamberlain
HOU/TOR
Hakeem Olajuwon
ORL/LAL/MIA/PHX/CLE/BOS
Shaquille O'Neal
14 Comments
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Level 86
Aug 6, 2015
What about Wayne Gretzky?
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Level 41
Aug 6, 2015
Basketball Centers
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Level 5
Nov 10, 2015
what about Patrick Ewing or David Robinson?
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Level 50
Dec 23, 2015
Not in the top 5
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Level 32
Jan 23, 2020
How about Willie Mays, I heard a lot about this basketball player
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Level 17
May 17, 2021
baseball lmao
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Level 61
May 11, 2020
I think it's time we agree that Bill's dominant team and Wilt's amazing stats are overrated and both Shaq and Hakeem are better. They played in weaker eras with fewer teams and weaker competition. Bill struggled on the offensive end averaging a staggering 40Fg% in his career and Wilt was a pretty bad teammate who cared for stats for most of his years. Both Hakeem and Shaq played in arguably the strongest era ever filled with strong big-men - The 90s, and had partial success but dominance and efficiency unlike the other two, Both gave two of the best individual season ever with Hakeem in 94' and Shaq in 00'. They were spectacular on both ends and
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Level 32
Nov 18, 2022
Bill Russell played against Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jerry West all on one team. And beat them 11 damn times. While yes, the NBA was much weaker back then, he still had extreme competition that he beat nearly every time.
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Level 61
May 11, 2020
My Top 10 are:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O'Neal, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Moses Malone, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing

After these players, a few can take the last two spots:

Dave Cowens / Willis Reed / Bill Walton / Wes Unseld / Robert Parish / Dwight Howard / George Mikan / Pau Gasol

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Level 50
May 14, 2020
Yeah, I guess you could argue that Shaq and Hakeem were better than Russell and Wilt. But they weren't greater. Wilt holds the most ridiculous individual records and was the most physically dominant player to ever play the game whilst Russell was the best player on the 50's and 60's Celtics which is the greatest dynasty of all-time with the 11 Championships they won in 13 seasons from 1956-69.
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Level 46
Feb 18, 2022
bro at least spend more time on this quiz like cmon you probably just picked 5 people
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Level 13
May 6, 2022
you forgot about Anthony bennit
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Level 19
Nov 4, 2022
2 seconds
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Level 22
Jan 20, 2024
Wasn't Wilt on the warriors too?