Joe Barry Carroll: The Next Preeminent NBA Center? 1982

[Joe Barry Carroll arrived on the NBA scene in the early 1980s. Like Bill Cartwright, featured on the blog yesterday, Carroll was advertised as an up-and-comer, one of the league’s marquee seven-footers for the 1980s. Well, maybe. In this article, reporter Ralph Wiley touches on the maybe early in Carroll’s career and tilts it heavily in favor of the li…