There’s a lot of talk about the death of the center position. Changes in the game have forced stalwart big men to drastically change their skill set in order to survive the new world order and those changes have given rise to this conversation. The centers who aren’t overwhelmingly strong positives in a specific area (usually defense) are being run out of the league, replaced by their smaller, more versatile counterparts. The center position is very different than it was years ago, but it is by no means extinct. Rather, the “death of the traditional center” isn’t necessarily due to those skills no longer being valued across the league; it’s due to a glut of newly-classified centers changing the very definition of the position.
The Hawks aren’t putting any limits on what John Collins can be
