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New Orleans Pelicans: Finding A Back-Up Center for 2021

Maxi Kleber is a smart target for the New Orleans Pelicans. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images)

If the New Orleans Pelicans want to take a center by committee approach in 2021, they’ll need an ideal second center

Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve been harping on the New Orleans Pelicans to use a center by committee approach in 2021. I’ve even written about it here recently. This idea goes against what a lot of Pelicans fans are saying in our mentions but hear me out.

The center position is dying in the modern NBA at such a high rate that it doesn’t make sense to pay premium money at that position.