Pivot (basketball)

See also: Pivot (sport)

With the Basketball, the pivot (in English: center ) is the player located more close to the basket when the play is in place. It is one of the five traditional stations.

The pivot is generally the largest player and heaviest (but also slowest) of its team. This station is called thus because, being placed most of the time very close to the basket, it must often swivel after having received the balloon to be found in direction of the basket. Its role is generally to use its size and its physical mass to mark baskets at short distance, and to prevent the players of the opposing team from approaching her own basket.

In the modern basketball of high-level, the majority of the pivots measure more than 2 m - some reach 2,25 m such as for example the Chinese Yao Ming (2,26) - and weigh more than 100 kg.

In the years 1990, NBA becomes the cave of the pivots, at the time one considers same that a team cannot gain a title without a good pivot. Michael Jordan and Chicago bulldozers will manage however to prove the opposite. The San Antonio Spurs with David Robinson, the Houston Rockets with Hakeem Olajuwon and the New York Knicks with Patrick Ewing will be essential néammoins among the best teams.

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