Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (Chris Nicoll-USA TODAY Sports)
In today’s NBA, the center position shares a similarity with Gene Wilder: people can’t stop seem to stop announcing that it’s dead. Unlike the late, great thespian, however, the NBA’s big man never actually died. The Utah Jazz boast one of the Association’s finest in Rudy Gobert, but how does he stack up among the NBA’s elite big men?
For this exercise, we removed a great deal of subjectivity by basing our rankings on three metrics from last season: Player Efficiency Rating (PER), Box Plus/Minus (BPM) and Value over Replacement Player (VORP).