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up on offense, to jamming up the painted lane around the hoop and turning away shots in the defensive zone.Centers became so dominant, in fact, that the NBA twice changed the rules of the game in an attempt to level the playing field between those teams that possessed one and those that did not. Hoping to offset the supremacy of the Minneapolis Lakers George Mikan, the league doubled the width of the key—from six to 12 feet—in 1951,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and then increased it again to 16 feet in 1964 to counteract then-San Francisco Warriors big man Wilt Chamberlain. By widening the space, pushing players a further distance from the basket and lowering their shooting percentage, the NBA tried to make it more difficult for these men in the middle to do either so effortlessly.Other rule changes, in particular those that sped up the game, also worked against centers. The first came in 1955 with the inception of the 24-second shot clock. With it, players were forced to run up and down the court more often, which took a physical toll on