Top 25 Centers of All-Time Voting Part 3: Players 11-15

[L.Kizzle]

Select and rank the next 5 (players 11 through 15) of the greatest CENTERS of All-Time. A 48 Hour window will be given to make your choices or debate why said player should or shouldn’t be here. After 48 Hours, 5 will be selected and another 5 will be added to the pool of players.


Players to choose from:
Alonzo Mourning
Artis Gilmore
Ben Wallace
Bill Walton
Bob Lanier
Brad Daugherty
Bob McAdoo
Dave Cowens
Dikembe Mutombo
Dwight Howard
Nate Thurmond
Robert Parish
Walt Bellamy
Wes Unseld
Yao Ming


Top 25 Centers: 1-10
1 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2 Bill Russell
3 Shaquille O'Neal
4 Wilt Chamberlain
5 Hakeem Olajuwon
6 Moses Malone
7 David Robinson
8 Patrick Ewing
9 Willis Reed
9 George Mikan
Willis Reed & George Mikan received the same number of total points.

Voting Results
Number of Voters - 14
Number of Players Receiving Votes - 11

Moses Malone - (10) 1st Place Votes / (4) 2nd Place Votes
David Robinson - (4) 1st Place Votes / (7) 2nd Place Votes / (3) 3rd Place Votes
Patrick Ewing - (1) 2nd Place Vote / (9) 3rd Place Votes / (2) 4th Place Votes
Willis Reed - (1) 2nd Place Vote / (1) 3rd Place Vote / (3) 4th Place Votes / (1) 5th Place Vote
George Mikan - (1) 2nd Place Vote / (4) 4th Place Votes / (3) 5th Place Votes
Bill Walton - (1) 3rd Place Vote / (4) 4th Place Votes / (1) 5th Place Vote
Dwight Howard - (4) 5th Place Votes
Artis Gilmore - (1) 4th Place Vote
Bob McAdoo - (3) 5th Place Votes
Wes Unseld - (1) 5th Place Vote
Alonzo Mourning - (1) 5th Place Vote

Voting Criteria
1st = 10 Pts
2nd = 7 Pts
3rd = 5 Pts
4th = 3 Pts
5th = 1 Pt

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These posters got the order correct ... somewhat.
Phoenix (9 Reed / 10 Mikan)
SouthBeachTalents (9 Mikan / 10 Reed)

Top-25-Centers-of-All-Time-Voting-Part-2-Players-6-10 (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?486302-Top-25-Centers-of-All-Time-Voting-Part-2-Players-6-10)

[SouBeachTalents]

11. Cowens
12. Dwight
13. McAdoo
14. Walton
15. Parish

[NBAGOAT]

11. Gilmore
12. Mourning
13. Dwight
14. Mutombo(value his defense a lot and 10 year prime longer than cowens macdoo)
15. McAdoo(close with cowens but better peak/prime with similar longevity)

[Shooter]

Next position bro, no one is seriously ranking these guys after 15 anyway.

[AussieSteve]

11. Walton
12. Howard
13. McAdo
14. Cowens
15. Parish

[dankok8]

11. Walton
12. Howard
13. McAdoo
14. Parish
15. Thurmond

[L.Kizzle]

Next position bro, no one is seriously ranking these guys after 15 anyway.
I think why it may seem that way is because eith the center position, it has really fell off the past decade or so with the way the game is being played. Dwight Howard will likely be the only active and/or recent player on the center list. And he peaked over a decade ago,

Compared to the other position that will be featured. Those other position are very much current. You have a PF as the back to back MVP. The other most recent back to back MVP is a PG. These other position will have players in the top 5 and 10 of their respective positions (let alone the top 25) which will probably have between 3-5 active players each in the top 25.

[kkb_12]

11) Yao Ming
12) Walton
13) Perish
14) Mourning
15) McAdoo

[Phoenix]

Cowens
Walton
Mcadoo
Howard
Parish

[L.Kizzle]

11. Gilmore
12. Mourning
13. Dwight
14. Mutombo(value his defense a lot and 10 year prime longer than cowens macdoo)
15. McAdoo(close with cowens but better peak/prime with similar longevity)
Walton, McAdoo, Cowens and Unseld (who surprisingly has only gotten one vote so far) were all MVP's around the same time in the 70s (Wes, in the late 60s.) McAdoo's MVP came with a scoring title and Cowens and Walton's came with championships. Wes came with a championship, tho it was 10 years later.

Between 69-79, there were at least 2 centers in the Top 5 MVP Voting results every year. From 1965-1979 a center won the MVP Awards. 15 straight seasons a center was the most valuable player. The only other non center/big men to win the Awards from it's first season on were Bob Cousy and Oscar Robertson. Bob Pettit won 2 but he doubled as power forward and center.


69 MVP Voting
1 Wes 2 Reed 4 Russell
70 MVP Voting
1 Reed 3 Kareem
71 MVP Voting
1 Kareem 4 Reed
72 MVP Voting
1 Kareem 3 Wilt
73 MVP Voting
1 Cowens 2 Kareem 4 WIlt
74 MVP Voting
1 Kareem 2 McAdoo 3 Bob Lanier 4 Cowens
75 MVP Voting
1 McAdoo 2 Cowens 5 Kareem
76 MVP Voting
1 Kareem 2 McAdoo 3 Cowens
77 MVP Voting
1 Kareem 2 Walton 4 Bob Lanier
78 MVP Voting
1 Walton 4 Kareem
79 MVP Voting
1 Moses 4 Kareem

[L.Kizzle]

Players yet to receive a single vote.

Bob Lanier - Hall of Famer
Walt Bellamy - Hall of Famer
Ben Wallace - 4 Time D-Poy and NBA Champion
Brad Daugherty - 5 Time All-Star