Though Anthony Davis' progression toward intergalactic basketball superpower has hit a bit of a snag this year, he's still given us a glimpse of a developmental step everyone wanted.
He's a center now—even if he's not so sure of that himself.
"If somebody asked me, I would definitely say I'm a power forward," he told Bleacher Report. "No hesitation."
It's more complicated than that, though, as Davis went on to explain that the New Orleans Pelicans' positional designations are often matchup dependent. When he and Ryan Anderson share the floor, they play interchangeably on offense, based sometimes on who gets down the floor first.
Davis plays the 5 on defense, of course, and he also works exclusively at power forward when paired with any of New Orleans' more conventional bigs: Omer Asik, Alexis Ajinca and Kendrick Perkins.
Those players' general ineffectiveness (not to mention injuries throughout the roster) have allowed Davis to log about 55 percent of his minutes at center this season, per Nylon Calculus. And any questions about his fitness for the gig should have disappeared when he split tim ...
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