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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)

[edit] Playing Styles

A section on center playing styles would be nice to add. I would guess that the major (offensive) styles would be power (e.g. Shaq), finesse (Hakeem Olajuwon), shooting (Patrick Ewing), and playmaking (Arvydas Sabonis), but that is just my opinion. Of course, many centers would fall under multiple catagories.

DaDoc540 (talk) 02:56, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CENTER

 THe center base is most likely to be for tall and lean people. I am a basketball player for my school and i kNow how it feels to be left out because your always beaten by others. All i have to say is that you should stay calm and do your best to be better at center!!!!! BEST OF LUCK TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--75.22.239.24 (talk) 03:50, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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