See IF I can - [Can someone help me on their salaries] ATLANTIC DIVISION Center Salaries Boston Celtics Battie Miami Heat Mouring New Jersey Nets McCollum New York Knicks Camby? Orlando Magic Ewing Philadelphia 76ers Mutombo Washington Wizards Kwame Brown? MIDWEST DIVISION Dallas Mavericks LaFrenz Denver Nuggets Howard? Houston Rockets Craddle Memphis Grizzlies ??? Minnesota Timberwolves Garrett? San Antonio Spurs Robinson Utah Jazz Osterboy CENTRAL DIVISION Atlanta Hawks Ratliff Chicago Bulls Chandler/Curry Cleveland Cavaliers ilzagusbifrbvekhgus Detroit Pistons Wallace Indiana Pacers O'neal Milwaukee Bucks Erv Johnson New Orleans Hornets Eld Campbell Toronto Raptors Hakeem/Davis PACIFIC DIVISION Golden State Warriors Adonal Foyle Los Angeles Clippers Kandi man Los Angeles Lakers Shaq Phoenix Suns ??? Portland Trail Blazers Dale Davis Sacramento Kings Vlade Divac Seattle SuperSonics R-something-ski Rocket River
Nets - spelled wrong...but you got the idea Magic - Declerq most of the time Grizzlies - Lo Wright T-Wolves - Nesterovic Jazz - Collins Hawks - Mohammed - but only because Ratliff was hurt Pistons - Rabraca Pacers - Miller now Bucks - Pryzbilla Raptors - Clark Warriors - Dampier/Foyle Suns - Tsakalides Supersonics - Signed Booth, played James and whoever you are thinking of...but Booth is the real starter.
Now the question is. Rank them. 1. By how good they are. 2. By their salaries. Then compare the two. That is how we see how our Draft should go Rocket River
Damn, the Eastern Conference sucks!! Do you realize the EC Finals had McCullough and Battie at C?! PEEEE-YOU!!
That's quite an impressive list! Right now, on the other side of the world, Yao Ming is licking his chops! Chris
My thoughts Exactly. Ming could easily step in and be a top 10 Center . . .before playing 1 game. Rocket River
Thats why he's the #1 pick. You dont get picked #1 for no reason at all. I'm just glad Kenyon Martin<i>(former #1 pick)</i> is with the east. He is probably one of the top 5 in the east as far as Pf's are concerned. Yao is going to have some trouble with the Pf's in the west, and not to mention the few center'. In the longrun, going to a western conference team as a big man , who'll start right away is a good investment.
Orlando: Grant starts at center, at least when Hill is playing. Detroit: Robinson starts while Wallace and Rebraca spend time at center, but is Moore still with the team? Before trading for Wallace and Robinson, the active centers on the team (Moore, Montross) were so bad that 6'11" Matt Fish was brought into traning camp. For contract information: Salaries (Atlanta-Los Angeles) Salaries (Memphis-Utah) The clowns at USA today conveniently forgot Washington. This source provides player salaries, but not contract length, since 1986: http://www.dfw.net/~patricia/misc/salaries02.txt Just change the year in the link if so desired. Currently, you'll find plenty of overpaid stiffs in the Eastern Conference (Potapenko, Knight, Diop (an overpaid lottery pick who's turned out to be an overweight and physically-brittle Jerome Moiso), Ilgauskas (who makes the max) and countless others. Be prepared to add Curtis Borchardt to the list. There is no doubt that centers are critical. They (the better ones) are the driving force behind team defense. While a center's offense won't always carry a team, his presence can; he can create shots for perimeter players and cutters. This is why no great NBA team has been without a dominating big-man. With that said, however, the fact that names like Lorenzen Wright and Eric Montross appear on the top of NBA payrolls is madenning. What should team brass do when second-rate stiffs demand eight-figure salaries? Say no. Don Sterling is cheap, but at least he has the forethought not to sign Cato/Taylor to six-year deals. EDIT: The site listed the Wizards' payroll on this page: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nba/stories/2001-02-salaries-was.htm
Chandler has never started at center. Curry holds that spot. And when he's unavailable it will be Bagaric or Scott Williams... Brenda Haywood is the starting center for whoa-zards.
Scott Williams plays for the Bulls? Since when....he's on the Nuggets last I checked. Jahidi White and Christian Laettner are the centers for Washington; Brenda Haywood is the backup. Here's the complete list... Boston - Battie Miami - Mourning NY Knicks - K. Thomas (Camby when healthy, but Kurt is the de facto center) NJ Nets - MacCulloch Orlando - H. Grant (replaced Ewing and S. Hunter early in season) Philadelphia - Mutombo Washington - White (see above) Atlanta - Mohammed (Ratliff when healthy, but that's rare) Chicago - Curry Cleveland - Ilgauskas Detroit - C. Robinson Indiana - B. Miller (though before the trade, O'Neal played here) Milwaukee - Pryzbilla started the last half of the season at center, with E. Johnson off the bench New Orleans - Campbell Toronto - A. Davis (though other assorted centers got the start here to move Davis to PF, he played the majority of games at C) Dallas - LaFrentz Denver - Howard (after they traded LaFrentz) Houston - Cato Minnesota - R. Nesterovic Memphis - L. Wright San Antonio - D. Robinson Utah - Jarron Collins (Ostertag was benched the last half of the year) Golden State - Dampier LA Clippers - Olowokandi LA Lakers - S. O'Neal Phoenix - Voskuhl/Tsakalidis (with Tsakalidis starting 47 and Voskuhl 34) Portland - D. Davis Sacramento - Divac Seattle - J. James (C. Booth when healthy) The list of centers is rather horrible; thus Ric Bucher's claim that Kandi is one year away from being the 2nd best center in the league isn't far off at all.
I'd personally put Jamaal Magloire as a good center and possibly the one young guy that is rising rapidly.
I think seeing this list definately puts the Ming Draft in prospective. I mean . . can he be too much worse than this Motley Crew of centers Rocket River
LOL, exactly! I had to come back to this thread to look again at that center list. Amazing. There is NO DOUBT that the center position in the NBA is at one of its weakest times. Ming really shouldn't have any problem against most of those centers. As Rocket River said, that list of centers really puts things into perspective! Chris
Don't count your eggs before they've hatched....Williams is a solid backup center/PF, but he was injured much of last year...and he may want to go to a contender before he goes back to the Bulls.
