{"id":513445,"date":"2026-09-03T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=513445"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:18:56","slug":"hoopshype-ranks-greatest-nba-centers-kareem-first-jokic-seventh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hoopshype-ranks-greatest-nba-centers-kareem-first-jokic-seventh\/","title":{"rendered":"HoopsHype ranks greatest NBA centers: Kareem first, Jokic seventh"},"content":{"rendered":"

HoopsHype<\/strong> has released its ranking of the 20 greatest centers in NBA history, placing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first ahead of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain.<\/p>\n

Shaquille O\u2019Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon complete the top five, while Nikola Jokic ranks seventh. Joel Embiid is 17th behind Dwight Howard and Dave Cowens.<\/p>\n

Full ranking:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/li>\n
  2. Bill Russell<\/li>\n
  3. Wilt Chamberlain<\/li>\n
  4. Shaquille O\u2019Neal<\/li>\n
  5. Hakeem Olajuwon<\/li>\n
  6. Moses Malone<\/li>\n
  7. Nikola Jokic<\/li>\n
  8. David Robinson<\/li>\n
  9. Patrick Ewing<\/li>\n
  10. George Mikan<\/li>\n
  11. Bob McAdoo<\/li>\n
  12. Wes Unseld<\/li>\n
  13. Robert Parish<\/li>\n
  14. Willis Reed<\/li>\n
  15. Dwight Howard<\/li>\n
  16. Dave Cowens<\/li>\n
  17. Joel Embiid<\/li>\n
  18. Bill Walton<\/li>\n
  19. Artis Gilmore<\/li>\n
  20. Dikembe Mutombo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Abdul-Jabbar leads Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, while Nikola Jokic already ranks above David Robinson and Patrick Ewing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":504569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-513445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/Nikola-Jokic.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513445"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=513445"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=513445"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=513445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}