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Ranking the best NBA centers since 2000 — where does Joel Embiid rank?

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August 28, 2025
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From Shaquille O’Neal to Nikola Jokic to Sixers center Joel Embiid, who is the best NBA center of the 2000s? Does Yao Ming make the cut? Is Joel Embiid better than Dwight Howard? And more debates about the best big men of the last 25 years.

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