Golden State Warriors: Ranking the team’s center options

The Golden State Warriors are overloaded with centers of all shapes and sizes, traditional and trendy. Springy and ground-bound, stretchy and switchy. How do their seven unique options at the big man spot rank?

No team in the history of the NBA has featured as much talent at the 1-4 positions as the Golden State Warriors.

Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant and Draymond Green are all top-15 players in the league, and Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston, Nick Young, Omri Casspi and Patrick McCaw are not bad as backups.

Aware of this, general manager Bob Myers has amassed more options at center than just about any team in the league. As long as he empowers Steve Kerr to cobble together 48 quality minutes at the 5, the other four positions take care of themselves.

When ranking the best center options on Golden State, the goal is not to determine which player is the best center. Rather, it is to figure out who helps this team most by playing the 5, all things considered.