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The Top Ranked Power Forwards of the 1960s
Notes: This list is based on pro stats.
What players did in college is not factored into this list.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Bob Pettit | 5 |
| 2 | Jerry Lucas | 8 |
| 3 | Bailey Howell | 11 |
| 4 | Willie Naulls | 18 |
| 5 | Dolph Schayes | 21 |
| 6 | Gus Johnson | 22 |
| 7 | Ray Scott | 24 |
| 8 | Tom Heinsohn | 30 |
| 9 | Johnny Green | 34 |
| 10 | Bill Bridges | 35 |
| 11 | Rudy LaRusso | 38 |
| 12 | Billy Cunningham | 42 |
| 13 | Bob Boozer | 47 |
| 14 | Tom Meschery | 49 |
| 15 | Luke Jackson | 56 |
| 16 | Happy Hairston | 60 |
| 17 | Dave Gambee | 67 |
| 18 | Len Chappell | 68 |
| 19 | Clyde Lee | 75 |
| 20 | Woody Sauldsberry | 82 |
| 21 | Wayne Hightower | 91 |
| 22 | Elvin Hayes | 95 |
| 23 | Fred Hetzel | 98 |
| 24 | John Tresvant | 100 |
| 25 | Kenny Sears | 103 |
| 26 | Jim Washington | 109 |
| 27 | Barney Cable | 111 |
| 28 | Paul Silas | 112 |
| 29 | McCoy McLemore | 123 |
| 30 | Larry Staverman | 125 |
| 31 | John Beasley | 126 |
| 32 | Shellie McMillon | 135 |
| 33 | Red Robbins | 149 |
| 34 | Cincy Powell | 152 |
| 35 | Connie Hawkins | 153 |
| 36 | Dave Piontek | 156 |
| 37 | Goose Ligon | 159 |
| 38 | Dave Stallworth | 161 |
| 39 | Les Hunter | 163 |
| 40 | Bob Netolicky | 165 |
| 41 | Bud Olsen | 166 |
| 42 | Archie Dees | 167 |
| 43 | Joe Graboski | 171 |
| 44 | Trooper Washington | 176 |
| 45 | Toby Kimball | 177 |
| 46 | Ron Horn | 180 |
| 47 | Jim Palmer | 184 |
| 48 | Howie Jolliff | 200 |
| 49 | Arthur Becker | 202 |
| 50 | John Block | 208 |
| 51 | Al Tucker | 209 |
| 52 | Joe Ruklick | 211 |
| 53 | Earl Lloyd | 217 |
| 54 | Ron Reed | 219 |
| 55 | Jeffrey Cohen | 227 |
| 56 | Charlie Hardnett | 228 |
| 57 | Walter Mangham | 239 |
| 58 | Dorie Murrey | 242 |
| 59 | Jack Adams | 244 |
| 60 | David Mills | 245 |
| 61 | Gary Gregor | 246 |
| 62 | Grady McCollum | 250 |
| 63 | Neil Johnson | 254 |
| 64 | Randolph Mahaffey | 256 |
| 65 | Stew Johnson | 258 |
| 66 | Cleveland Buckner | 261 |
| 67 | Henry Curtis | 266 |
| 68 | Joe Buckhalter | 271 |
| 69 | John Windsor | 274 |
| 70 | Bob Love | 279 |
| 71 | Jack Fitzpatrick | 280 |
| 72 | Keith Swagerty | 284 |
| 73 | Bob Kauffman | 305 |
| 74 | Ollie Darden | 310 |
| 75 | Phil Jackson | 312 |
| 76 | Dale Wise | 313 |
| 77 | Steve Hamilton | 314 |
| 78 | Ron Johnson | 316 |
| 79 | Dave Gunther | 321 |
| 80 | Mel Davis (1937) | 323 |
| 81 | Radivoj Korac | 324 |
| 82 | Dave Lattin | 337 |
| 83 | Bill Hewitt | 340 |
| 84 | Frank Radovich | 384 |
| 85 | Bob Clarke | 399 |
| 86 | Chuck Osborne | 403 |
| 87 | Doug Kistler | 405 |
| 88 | Roger Strickland | 408 |
| 89 | George Bon Salle | 413 |
| 90 | Gerald Govan | 417 |
| 91 | Dave Fedor | 418 |
| 92 | Donald Sidle | 419 |
| 93 | Jeff Slade | 425 |
| 94 | Leroy Wright | 427 |
| 95 | Dennis Hamilton | 436 |
| 96 | Hank Whitney | 437 |
| 97 | Lowery Kirk | 439 |
| 98 | Bogdan Likszo | 451 |
| 99 | George Price | 452 |
| 100 | Ed Burton | 454 |
| 101 | Bobby F. Wilson | 456 |
| 102 | Tom Workman | 459 |
| 103 | Mieczyslaw Lopatka | 464 |
| 104 | Henry Akin | 469 |
| 105 | Clifford Luyk | 473 |
| 106 | Ted Luckenbill | 478 |
| 107 | William McClintock | 480 |
| 108 | Gennadi Volnov | 490 |
| 109 | Tommie Bowens | 493 |
| 110 | Walter Piatkowski | 494 |
| 111 | Bill Hosket | 495 |
| 112 | Bohumil Tomasek | 506 |
| 113 | Jim Ware | 512 |
| 114 | Chuck Curtis | 513 |
| 115 | Jay Carty | 527 |
| 116 | Charlie Paulk | 534 |
| 117 | Boo Ellis | 537 |
| 118 | Danny Doyle | 546 |
| 119 | Bob Allen | 547 |
| 120 | Howard Bayne | 550 |
| 121 | Amaury Pasos | 558 |
| 122 | Warren Davis | 559 |
| 123 | Daniel Sparks | 561 |
| 124 | Sonny Dove | 565 |
| 125 | Samuel Barnard | 567 |
| 126 | Donald Dee | 570 |
| 127 | Ricardo Duarte | 574 |
| 128 | Gary Keller | 575 |
| 129 | Bob Keller | 579 |
| 130 | Carlos Quintanar | 593 |
| 131 | Guy Sparrow | 594 |
| 132 | Willie Porter | 597 |
| 133 | Bob Hogsett | 612 |
| 134 | Frank Card | 613 |
| 135 | Gianfranco Lombardi | 614 |
| 136 | Laszlo Gabanyu | 617 |
| 137 | Luiz Menon | 627 |
| 138 | Tom Hemans | 636 |
| 139 | Bob McDonald | 637 |
| 140 | Carroll Hooser | 647 |
| 141 | Anatoli Polivoda | 650 |
| 142 | John McKibbon | 651 |
| 143 | Raymond Dalmau | 652 |
| 144 | Jon Cincebox | 662 |
| 145 | Spencer Haywood | 672 |
| 146 | Kari Limo | 679 |
| 147 | Matthew Aitch | 682 |
| 148 | Janos Bencze | 687 |
| 149 | Nemanja Djuric | 694 |
| 150 | Bobby Mantz | 696 |
| 151 | Walter Byrd | 697 |
| 152 | Jean-Paul Beugnot | 705 |
| 153 | Johnny Mathis | 708 |
| 154 | Frank Corace | 711 |
| 155 | Ottorino Flaborea | 716 |
| 156 | Akira Kodama | 719 |
| 157 | Chuck Gardner | 724 |
| 158 | Pedro Chappe | 726 |
| 159 | Charlie Hoxie | 738 |
| 160 | Bob Herdelin | 739 |
| 161 | Jim Reid | 740 |
| 162 | Herb Gray | 774 |
| 163 | Randy Stoll | 779 |
| 164 | Tibor Zsiros | 784 |
| 165 | Ed O'Connor | 789 |
| 166 | Nate Cloud | 792 |
| 167 | Tom Spencer | 794 |
| 168 | Wayne Lawrence | 795 |
| 169 | Elvin Ivory | 796 |
| 170 | Darrell Hardy | 811 |
| 171 | Al Salvadori | 818 |
| 172 | Russ Gordon | 824 |
| 173 | Bob Riedy | 825 |
| 174 | Bennie Swain | 838 |
| 175 | Brian Brunkhorst | 839 |
| 176 | Tommy Woods | 840 |
| 177 | Dexter Westbrook | 847 |
| 178 | Paul Scranton | 852 |
| 179 | Gary Turner | 866 |
| 180 | Jim Kissane | 872 |
| 181 | Eddie Simmons | 873 |
| 182 | Ray Radziszewski | 877 |
| 183 | Willie Wolters | 889 |
| 184 | Ken Morehead | 891 |
| 185 | Larry Moore | 892 |
| 186 | Jim Radcliffe | 899 |
| 187 | Jackie Jackson | 903 |
| 188 | Ernie Brock | 906 |
| 189 | Ollie Jones | 907 |
| 190 | Joe Newton | 910 |
| 191 | Dave Riddick | 911 |
| 192 | Hamp Hazelton | 912 |
| 193 | Dale Neel | 915 |
| 194 | Pete Brennan | 918 |
| 195 | Tom Kerwin | 919 |
| 196 | Jim Tucker | 924 |
| 197 | Charles Parks | 927 |
| 198 | Jay Metzler | 929 |
| 199 | Ben Gantt | 933 |
| 200 | Richard Csencitz | 939 |
| 201 | Aaron Sellers | 943 |
| 202 | Bernial Wilson | 944 |
| 203 | Earl Powell (1939) | 956 |
| 204 | Herschel West | 957 |
| 205 | Bill Persons | 959 |
| 206 | Johnny Russell | 965 |
| 207 | Taft Jackson | 970 |
| 208 | George Fox | 974 |
| 209 | Tom Wynne | 976 |
| 210 | Clem Galliard | 978 |
| 211 | Dick Lee | 990 |
| 212 | Jesse Arnelle | 996 |
| 213 | Cal Pettit | 1000 |
| 214 | Ed Kazakavich | 1002 |
| 215 | Boris Nachamkin | 1017 |
| 216 | Preston Ross | 1021 |
| 217 | Barry Herbert | 1025 |
| 218 | Jim Barry | 1029 |
| 219 | Dave Fox | 1034 |
| 220 | Jim O'Brien (1942) | 1050 |
| 221 | Andy Benson | 1056 |
| 222 | Oscar Smith | 1057 |
| 223 | Dick Thompson | 1059 |
| 224 | Topsy Del Gobbo | 1069 |
| 225 | Gene Somers | 1072 |
| 226 | Charles Moore | 1074 |
| 227 | Larry Lakins | 1076 |
| 228 | Ed Wright | 1081 |
| 229 | Lee Buckley | 1084 |
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