Greatest shot blocker in each NBA team’s history

Best shoot blocker in New Orleans Pelicans history: Anthony Davis

The New Orleans Pelicans should be thanking their lucky stars every day Anthony Davis fell into their lap. Without David Stern infamously vetoing the Chris Paul trade and a little lottery luck, who knows where they’d be right now?

If he isn’t already, “The Brow” should be the poster child for what a modern big man should look like in 2018.

He can face up to the basket and knock down shots. He’s quick enough to take it to the bucket and now strong enough to finish through contact. Because he didn’t start really growing until his sophomore year in high school, Davis developed the ability to handle the ball, which he still uses today at times.

His build makes him an elite defender as well, standing 6-foot-10 with arms stretched to 7-foot-4. Combined with his sky-scraping leaping ability, he can switch out onto the perimeter and do a better job than most guards. Those gifts are what also makes him a terrific shot blocker, seeing as how there really isn’t any type of shot the three-time blocks champion can’t get a hand on.

The numbers this dude has been producing up as essentially a one-man show don’t seem fair, putting him into categories with some of the all-time great centers of past years. His career averages are 23.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game, and he’s only 25 years old!

The NBA world can agree it wants to see Davis compete for a title, which probably won’t happen should he decide to re-up with the Pelicans. Watching him literally obliterating anything in his path is a pretty good consolation. It’s very likely we haven’t even seen the best of it just yet.