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The Top Ranked Centers of the 2000s
Notes: This list is based on pro stats.
What players did in college is not factored into this list.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Shaquille O'Neal | 3 |
| 2 | Dwight Howard | 27 |
| 3 | Yao Ming | 46 |
| 4 | Alonzo Mourning | 53 |
| 5 | Al Jefferson | 60 |
| 6 | Brad Miller | 67 |
| 7 | David Robinson | 76 |
| 8 | Marcus Camby | 88 |
| 9 | Dikembe Mutombo | 96 |
| 10 | Mehmet Okur | 98 |
| 11 | Zydrunas Ilgauskas | 107 |
| 12 | Emeka Okafor | 120 |
| 13 | Eddy Curry | 142 |
| 14 | Patrick Ewing | 147 |
| 15 | Vlade Divac | 148 |
| 16 | Andrew Bogut | 153 |
| 17 | Andris Biedrins | 163 |
| 18 | Erick Dampier | 169 |
| 19 | Jamaal Magloire | 179 |
| 20 | Tyson Chandler | 187 |
| 21 | Chris Kaman | 191 |
| 22 | Al Horford | 194 |
| 23 | Elden Campbell | 195 |
| 24 | Samuel Dalembert | 209 |
| 25 | Zaza Pachulia | 212 |
| 26 | Michael Olowokandi | 214 |
| 27 | Arvydas Sabonis | 217 |
| 28 | Brook Lopez | 222 |
| 29 | Theo Ratliff | 228 |
| 30 | Primoz Brezec | 229 |
| 31 | Marc Gasol | 257 |
| 32 | Nick Collison | 263 |
| 33 | Rasho Nesterovic | 269 |
| 34 | Spencer Hawes | 272 |
| 35 | Channing Frye | 273 |
| 36 | Mark Blount | 276 |
| 37 | Rik Smits | 285 |
| 38 | Brendan Haywood | 291 |
| 39 | Nazr Mohammed | 300 |
| 40 | Todd MacCulloch | 308 |
| 41 | Hamed Haddadi | 330 |
| 42 | Wang Zhizhi | 331 |
| 43 | Greg Ostertag | 355 |
| 44 | Joseph Vogel | 360 |
| 45 | Kendrick Perkins | 377 |
| 46 | Shawn Bradley | 381 |
| 47 | Lazaros Papadopoulos | 409 |
| 48 | Chris Mihm | 410 |
| 49 | Marc Jackson | 415 |
| 50 | Richard Lugo | 418 |
| 51 | Daniel Santiago | 421 |
| 52 | Dejan Tomasevic | 424 |
| 53 | Ioannis Bourousis | 431 |
| 54 | Luc Longley | 435 |
| 55 | Vitaly Potapenko | 441 |
| 56 | Mikki Moore | 442 |
| 57 | Fabricio Oberto | 446 |
| 58 | Miguel Lutonda | 450 |
| 59 | Joakim Noah | 455 |
| 60 | Mengke Bateer | 459 |
| 61 | Kelvin Cato | 460 |
| 62 | Aleksey Savrasenko | 461 |
| 63 | Andrew Bynum | 465 |
| 64 | Greg Oden | 468 |
| 65 | Dan Gadzuric | 471 |
| 66 | Bryant Reeves | 473 |
| 67 | Joel Przybilla | 476 |
| 68 | Hakeem Olajuwon | 478 |
| 69 | Tony Battie | 481 |
| 70 | Matt Geiger | 484 |
| 71 | Jamie Feick | 486 |
| 72 | Jason Collins | 500 |
| 73 | Scot Pollard | 503 |
| 74 | Predrag Drobnjak | 515 |
| 75 | John Amaechi | 519 |
| 76 | Darjus Lavrinovic | 526 |
| 77 | Ervin Johnson | 530 |
| 78 | Adonal Foyle | 547 |
| 79 | Jake Tsakalidis | 561 |
| 80 | Jake Voskuhl | 571 |
| 81 | Melvin Ely | 579 |
| 82 | Jelani McCoy | 586 |
| 83 | Vladimir Stepania | 598 |
| 84 | Steven Hunter | 613 |
| 85 | Zeljko Rebraca | 615 |
| 86 | Michael Doleac | 620 |
| 87 | Francisco Elson | 623 |
| 88 | Olden Polynice | 628 |
| 89 | Sean Rooks | 630 |
| 90 | Marreese Speights | 631 |
| 91 | Roy Hibbert | 634 |
| 92 | Johan Petro | 643 |
| 93 | JaVale McGee | 644 |
| 94 | Calvin Booth | 647 |
| 95 | Evan Eschmeyer | 655 |
| 96 | David Harrison | 657 |
| 97 | Jerome James | 659 |
| 98 | Chris Anstey | 661 |
| 99 | Sean Williams | 674 |
| 100 | DeSagana Diop | 680 |
| 101 | Hanno Mottola | 690 |
| 102 | Marcin Gortat | 704 |
| 103 | Dean Garrett | 723 |
| 104 | Jim McIlvaine | 725 |
| 105 | Will Perdue | 727 |
| 106 | Jason Collier | 730 |
| 107 | Pat Burke | 731 |
| 108 | Aaron Gray | 745 |
| 109 | Travis Knight | 747 |
| 110 | Joel Anthony | 751 |
| 111 | Isaac Austin | 759 |
| 112 | Curtis Borchardt | 763 |
| 113 | Oliver Miller | 765 |
| 114 | Carlos Rogers | 766 |
| 115 | Solomon Jones | 773 |
| 116 | Zan Tabak | 775 |
| 117 | Zendon Hamilton | 783 |
| 118 | Jackie Butler | 788 |
| 119 | Keith Closs | 792 |
| 120 | Eric Montross | 802 |
| 121 | Dalibor Bagaric | 804 |
| 122 | Pape Sow | 805 |
| 123 | Chris Dudley | 814 |
| 124 | Rafael Araujo | 815 |
| 125 | Amal McCaskill | 822 |
| 126 | Loren Woods | 831 |
| 127 | DeAndre Jordan | 836 |
| 128 | Dragan Tarlac | 837 |
| 129 | Earl Barron | 840 |
| 130 | Mamadou N'Diaye | 855 |
| 131 | Todd Fuller | 869 |
| 132 | Kosta Koufos | 872 |
| 133 | Obinna Ekezie | 873 |
| 134 | Duane Causwell | 875 |
| 135 | Robin Lopez | 885 |
| 136 | D.J. Mbenga | 887 |
| 137 | Maciej Lampe | 889 |
| 138 | Shawnelle Scott | 891 |
| 139 | Mario Kasun | 904 |
| 140 | Ben Handlogten | 905 |
| 141 | Justin Williams | 906 |
| 142 | Ryan Hollins | 910 |
| 143 | Olumide Oyedeji | 911 |
| 144 | John Edwards | 915 |
| 145 | Jabari Smith | 916 |
| 146 | Chris Richard | 923 |
| 147 | Robert Whaley | 925 |
| 148 | Thomas Hamilton | 926 |
| 149 | Britton Johnsen | 927 |
| 150 | Jamal Sampson | 928 |
| 151 | Soumaila Samake | 933 |
| 152 | Gheorghe Muresan | 936 |
| 153 | John Salley | 937 |
| 154 | Michael Stewart | 938 |
| 155 | Ha Seung-Jin | 942 |
| 156 | Boniface N'Dong | 943 |
| 157 | Patrick O'Bryant | 951 |
| 158 | Oleksiy Pecherov | 952 |
| 159 | Chris Taft | 964 |
| 160 | Bruno Sundov | 971 |
| 161 | Felton Spencer | 972 |
| 162 | Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje | 974 |
| 163 | Luke Schenscher | 976 |
| 164 | Andrew Lang | 977 |
| 165 | Jared Reiner | 986 |
| 166 | Paul Grant | 991 |
| 167 | Mouhamed Sene | 1003 |
| 168 | Alvin Jones | 1016 |
| 169 | Efthimi Rentzias | 1020 |
| 170 | Tim Young | 1022 |
| 171 | Victor Alexander | 1023 |
| 172 | Kyrylo Fesenko | 1025 |
| 173 | Leon Smith | 1026 |
| 174 | Alexis Ajinca | 1028 |
| 175 | Dan McClintock | 1040 |
| 176 | Ken A. Johnson | 1044 |
| 177 | Randolph Morris | 1046 |
| 178 | Pavel Podkolzin | 1058 |
| 179 | Mark West | 1063 |
| 180 | Cheikh Samb | 1071 |
| 181 | Bill Wennington | 1073 |
| 182 | Martynas Andriuskevicius | 1075 |
| 183 | Nate Huffman | 1077 |
| 184 | Uros Slokar | 1079 |
| 185 | Deng Gai | 1084 |
| 186 | Stanley Roberts | 1087 |
| 187 | Cezary Trybanski | 1092 |
| 188 | A.J. Bramlett | 1094 |
| 189 | Joe Kleine | 1096 |
| 190 | John Coker | 1097 |
| 191 | Aleksandar Radojevic | 1098 |
| 192 | Andreas Glyniadakis | 1099 |
| 193 | Garth Joseph | 1101 |
| 194 | James Lang | 1103 |
| 195 | Slavko Vranes | 1114 |
| 196 | Ian Mahinmi | 1121 |
| 197 | Courtney Sims | 1126 |
| 198 | Corsley Edwards | 1128 |
| 199 | Darryl Watkins | 1129 |
| 200 | Ernest Brown | 1130 |
| 201 | Kosta Perovic | 1133 |
| 202 | Benoit Benjamin | 1137 |
| 203 | Mile Ilic | 1143 |
| 204 | Nathan Jawai | 1144 |
| 205 | Ratko Varda | 1145 |
| 206 | Steven Hill | 1149 |
| 207 | Lance Allred | 1161 |
| 208 | Peter John Ramos | 1162 |
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