He was the closest thing to what hockey people like to call "a franchise center."

You can have a franchise center and not a good hockey team.

I'd rather have a good hockey team than a franchise center.

Today is the day the Knicks take a long look at themselves and decide what kind of team they will become without their franchise center.

Every missed workout in the off season by the labor-pained franchise center.

But it remains to be seen if he will truly develop into a franchise center.

Last preseason, the franchise center and Mason, the small forward, had to be separated on a team flight.

They were 15-11 before Ewing, the franchise center, went down.

And their franchise center was helping, not hindering, the cause.

The same can be said for the franchise center, who, in a new motion offense, is moving much better than many observers expected.