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The Top Ranked Power Forwards of the 1980s
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 | Charles Barkley | 6 |
| 2 | Terry Cummings | 19 |
| 3 | Karl Malone | 20 |
| 4 | Kevin McHale | 26 |
| 5 | Dan Roundfield | 31 |
| 6 | Larry Nance | 34 |
| 7 | Tom Chambers | 40 |
| 8 | Buck Williams | 48 |
| 9 | James Worthy | 49 |
| 10 | Elvin Hayes | 59 |
| 11 | Truck Robinson | 64 |
| 12 | Bobby Jones | 68 |
| 13 | Maurice Lucas | 74 |
| 14 | Greg Ballard | 88 |
| 15 | Dave Greenwood | 89 |
| 16 | Otis Thorpe | 90 |
| 17 | Mickey Johnson | 100 |
| 18 | Kermit Washington | 101 |
| 19 | Chuck Person | 104 |
| 20 | Lonnie Shelton | 105 |
| 21 | Charles Oakley | 106 |
| 22 | Thurl Bailey | 109 |
| 23 | Sam Perkins | 114 |
| 24 | Roy Hinson | 115 |
| 25 | Kenny Carr | 122 |
| 26 | Clark Kellogg | 128 |
| 27 | Wayman Tisdale | 130 |
| 28 | Larry Smith | 142 |
| 29 | Michael Cage | 147 |
| 30 | A.C. Green | 160 |
| 31 | Kevin Willis | 165 |
| 32 | Phil Hubbard | 170 |
| 33 | Pat Cummings | 172 |
| 34 | George McGinnis | 180 |
| 35 | Dennis Rodman | 182 |
| 36 | John Williams | 184 |
| 37 | Stano Kropilak | 186 |
| 38 | Ben Poquette | 193 |
| 39 | Hot Rod Williams | 195 |
| 40 | Mike Bantom | 197 |
| 41 | Joe Bryant | 202 |
| 42 | James Bailey | 206 |
| 43 | Louis Orr | 207 |
| 44 | Cliff Levingston | 210 |
| 45 | George L. Johnson | 211 |
| 46 | Sidney Green | 219 |
| 47 | Walter Berry | 221 |
| 48 | Kurt Rambis | 226 |
| 49 | Jim Petersen | 230 |
| 50 | Greg Anderson | 235 |
| 51 | Terry Catledge | 239 |
| 52 | Ed Pinckney | 247 |
| 53 | Frank Brickowski | 252 |
| 54 | Larry Kenon | 254 |
| 55 | Detlef Schrempf | 257 |
| 56 | Earl Cureton | 258 |
| 57 | Rafael Rullan | 266 |
| 58 | Derrick McKey | 274 |
| 59 | Dwight Jones | 283 |
| 60 | Dave Meyers | 285 |
| 61 | Horace Grant | 289 |
| 62 | Tom McMillen | 292 |
| 63 | Jeff Cook | 294 |
| 64 | Reggie Johnson | 310 |
| 65 | Steve Mix | 315 |
| 66 | Renato Villalta | 316 |
| 67 | Antoine Carr | 318 |
| 68 | Bill Robinzine | 320 |
| 69 | Fabrizio Della Fiori | 327 |
| 70 | Lou Silver | 329 |
| 71 | Grant Long | 336 |
| 72 | Edgar Jones | 337 |
| 73 | Richard Anderson | 340 |
| 74 | Spencer Haywood | 351 |
| 75 | Rory White | 356 |
| 76 | John Salley | 363 |
| 77 | Fred Roberts | 367 |
| 78 | Marc Iavaroni | 369 |
| 79 | Bill Willoughby | 371 |
| 80 | Paul Griffin | 375 |
| 81 | Larry Krystkowiak | 384 |
| 82 | Mark Landsberger | 390 |
| 83 | Sam K. Williams | 394 |
| 84 | Charles Jones | 396 |
| 85 | Armen Gilliam | 398 |
| 86 | Rudy Tomjanovich | 402 |
| 87 | Cedrick Hordges | 403 |
| 88 | Abdul Jeelani | 406 |
| 89 | Mitch Kupchak | 408 |
| 90 | Charles Smith | 413 |
| 91 | Russ Schoene | 418 |
| 92 | Kevin Restani | 420 |
| 93 | Richard Washington | 422 |
| 94 | Major Jones | 423 |
| 95 | Scott Hastings | 424 |
| 96 | Mark Alarie | 425 |
| 97 | Ed Nealy | 430 |
| 98 | Sidney Wicks | 435 |
| 99 | Charles Pittman | 438 |
| 100 | Gar Heard | 439 |
| 101 | Tellis Frank | 442 |
| 102 | Zdenek Kos | 447 |
| 103 | James Hardy | 448 |
| 104 | Sam Pellom | 456 |
| 105 | Walter Magnifico | 465 |
| 106 | Jim Brewer | 466 |
| 107 | Pete Verhoeven | 467 |
| 108 | Ken Bannister | 471 |
| 109 | Wayne Robinson | 473 |
| 110 | Jeff Turner | 476 |
| 111 | Joel Kramer | 480 |
| 112 | John Shumate | 481 |
| 113 | Ray Tolbert | 485 |
| 114 | Marcel de Souza | 487 |
| 115 | Dallas Comegys | 489 |
| 116 | Larry Spriggs | 493 |
| 117 | Larry Demic | 496 |
| 118 | Keith Lee | 513 |
| 119 | Tim Kempton | 517 |
| 120 | Bob Thornton | 527 |
| 121 | Brad Lohaus | 531 |
| 122 | Don Ford | 534 |
| 123 | Hank McDowell | 539 |
| 124 | Michael Wiley | 540 |
| 125 | Joe Wolf | 541 |
| 126 | Paul Silas | 550 |
| 127 | Mike Smrek | 551 |
| 128 | Joe Kopicki | 564 |
| 129 | Tom Abernethy | 569 |
| 130 | Kenny Dennard | 578 |
| 131 | DeWayne Scales | 580 |
| 132 | Claude Gregory | 584 |
| 133 | James Ray | 593 |
| 134 | Clarence Kea | 599 |
| 135 | Chris McNealy | 602 |
| 136 | Andres Jimenez | 609 |
| 137 | Eddie Lee Wilkins | 613 |
| 138 | Tom Boswell | 617 |
| 139 | Gary Plummer | 619 |
| 140 | Rolando Frazer | 624 |
| 141 | Bobby Cattage | 627 |
| 142 | Horacio Lopez | 629 |
| 143 | Anicet-Richard Lavodrama | 638 |
| 144 | Mel Bennett | 654 |
| 145 | Larry Micheaux | 657 |
| 146 | Philippe Szanyiel | 662 |
| 147 | Danny Manning | 664 |
| 148 | Darnell Hillman | 666 |
| 149 | Kenny Gattison | 685 |
| 150 | Kevin Graham | 688 |
| 151 | Tim Perry | 692 |
| 152 | Valeri Tikhonenko | 693 |
| 153 | Jim Smith | 695 |
| 154 | Bruce Flowers | 705 |
| 155 | Jose Ortiz | 718 |
| 156 | Brad Wright | 720 |
| 157 | Shyam Radhey | 723 |
| 158 | Johnny Rogers | 725 |
| 159 | John Stroeder | 728 |
| 160 | Earl Evans | 733 |
| 161 | Georgi Glouchkov | 734 |
| 162 | Stephane Ostrowski | 738 |
| 163 | Joe Binion | 739 |
| 164 | Larry Sengstock | 746 |
| 165 | Hesham Khalil | 755 |
| 166 | Steve Lingenfelter | 759 |
| 167 | Ken Green | 773 |
| 168 | Alexander Volkov | 778 |
| 169 | Pete Williams | 789 |
| 170 | Bernard Toone | 790 |
| 171 | Phil Jackson | 793 |
| 172 | Mario Morales | 796 |
| 173 | Larry McNeill | 804 |
| 174 | Jerome Mincy | 805 |
| 175 | Guy Williams | 806 |
| 176 | Curtis Berry | 808 |
| 177 | Darrell Allums | 811 |
| 178 | Steve Malovic | 813 |
| 179 | Tim Bassett | 814 |
| 180 | Gerson Victalino | 815 |
| 181 | Brian Rowsom | 817 |
| 182 | Ken H. Johnson | 820 |
| 183 | Andrey Lopatov | 821 |
| 184 | Roland Rahm | 824 |
| 185 | Lawrence Boston | 828 |
| 186 | Tomas Herrera | 831 |
| 187 | Ronnie Valentine | 832 |
| 188 | Mike Gibson | 833 |
| 189 | John Campbell | 834 |
| 190 | Jerome Lane | 838 |
| 191 | Ralph McPherson | 842 |
| 192 | Rick Lamb | 845 |
| 193 | Romeo Sacchetti | 850 |
| 194 | Wayne Yearwood | 851 |
| 195 | Mark Bryant | 856 |
| 196 | Ron Behagen | 857 |
| 197 | Greg Hines | 860 |
| 198 | Greg Stokes | 862 |
| 199 | Wayne Sappleton | 864 |
| 200 | Dale Wilkinson | 865 |
| 201 | Lee Johnson | 870 |
| 202 | Mike Davis | 882 |
| 203 | Charles Shackleford | 886 |
| 204 | Charlie Floyd | 895 |
| 205 | Winston Crite | 905 |
| 206 | Cozell McQueen | 907 |
| 207 | Steffond Johnson | 915 |
| 208 | Jim Bostic | 920 |
| 209 | Bo Ellis | 931 |
| 210 | Rich Yonakor | 941 |
| 211 | Cedric Henderson (1965) | 943 |
| 212 | Daniel Haquet | 947 |
| 213 | Tommy Collier | 952 |
| 214 | Corny Thompson | 955 |
| 215 | Bill Jones | 960 |
| 216 | Purvis Miller | 961 |
| 217 | Curtis Kitchen | 967 |
| 218 | Jim Rowinski | 975 |
| 219 | Brant Weidner | 984 |
| 220 | Doug Arnold | 999 |
| 221 | Larry Knight | 1000 |
| 222 | Charles Hightower | 1004 |
| 223 | John Harris | 1005 |
| 224 | Charles Thompson | 1012 |
| 225 | Barry Sumpter | 1021 |
| 226 | Marvin Barnes | 1023 |
| 227 | Jeff Cross | 1025 |
| 228 | Horace Wyatt | 1029 |
| 229 | Bob Miller | 1040 |
| 230 | David Wood | 1041 |
| 231 | Wiley Brown | 1048 |
| 232 | Bruce Kuczenski | 1053 |
| 233 | John Garris | 1054 |
| 234 | Kenny Stancell | 1055 |
| 235 | Neil Stephens | 1059 |
| 236 | Monti Davis | 1067 |
| 237 | Jarvis Reynolds | 1068 |
| 238 | Zoran Cutura | 1075 |
| 239 | Tom Tolbert | 1088 |
| 240 | Andre Gaddy | 1089 |
| 241 | Tim Waterman | 1093 |
| 242 | Ramon Rivas | 1095 |
| 243 | Rob Lock | 1096 |
| 244 | T. Tony Brown | 1104 |
| 245 | Jeff Jenkins | 1107 |
| 246 | Penny Elliott | 1112 |
| 247 | Shelton Jones | 1117 |
| 248 | David Cooke | 1119 |
| 249 | John Fox | 1121 |
| 250 | Ronnie Williams | 1123 |
| 251 | Orlando Graham | 1124 |
| 252 | Eddie Mast | 1126 |
| 253 | Mel Davis | 1134 |
| 254 | Chris Harrison | 1138 |
| 255 | George Montgomery | 1144 |
| 256 | Sam Clancy Sr. | 1145 |
| 257 | Brett Applegate | 1150 |
| 258 | Jerome Batiste | 1156 |
| 259 | Larry Williams (6'9") | 1160 |
| 260 | Dave Popson | 1165 |
| 261 | Kevin Springman | 1167 |
| 262 | Jarvis Basnight | 1175 |
| 263 | Wayne Engelstad | 1179 |
| 264 | Dino Gregory | 1190 |
| 265 | Ron Charles | 1193 |
| 266 | Victor King | 1194 |
| 267 | Joel Thompson | 1195 |
| 268 | Scott Fisher | 1210 |
| 269 | Steve Krafcisin | 1219 |
| 270 | Herb Gray (1958) | 1221 |
| 271 | Andre Keys | 1226 |
| 272 | Daryl Braeden | 1232 |
| 273 | Darrell Gadsden | 1235 |
| 274 | Richard Mudd | 1244 |
| 275 | Stan Williams | 1252 |
| 276 | Hugo Cabrera | 1257 |
| 277 | Anthony Burns | 1258 |
| 278 | Drew Skonberg | 1259 |
| 279 | Glenn Mosley | 1272 |
| 280 | Richard Adams | 1275 |
| 281 | Lionel Garrett | 1284 |
| 282 | Jim Town | 1291 |
| 283 | Tony Wells | 1293 |
| 284 | Bobby Lee Hurt | 1295 |
| 285 | Dave Colbert | 1302 |
| 286 | James Ratiff | 1304 |
| 287 | Ron Haigler | 1312 |
| 288 | Larry Belin | 1324 |
| 289 | Bernie Harris | 1329 |
| 290 | Gary Maloncon | 1335 |
| 291 | Dean Tolson | 1341 |
| 292 | Mark Peterson | 1342 |
| 293 | Walt Stone | 1350 |
| 294 | Dave Winey | 1351 |
| 295 | Tim Garrett | 1355 |
| 296 | Pete Harris | 1358 |
| 297 | Brian O'Connor | 1360 |
| 298 | Mark Davis (Temple) | 1371 |
| 299 | Ricky Brown | 1379 |
| 300 | Brian Vaughns | 1380 |
| 301 | Francois Wise | 1393 |
| 302 | John Jordan (1958) | 1394 |
| 303 | Earl Walker | 1407 |
| 304 | Greg Miller | 1408 |
| 305 | Terrell Schlundt | 1409 |
| 306 | Abdur-Rahiim Al-Matiin | 1421 |
| 307 | Jerry Adams | 1423 |
| 308 | Wayne Walls | 1425 |
| 309 | Ken Garrett | 1426 |
| 310 | Ren Watson | 1435 |
| 311 | Calvin Bowser | 1438 |
| 312 | Ervin Dillon | 1440 |
| 313 | Brian Wilson | 1460 |
| 314 | Russell Pierre | 1467 |
| 315 | Steve Trumbo | 1476 |
| 316 | Jim Grandholm | 1484 |
| 317 | Kevin McDonald | 1485 |
| 318 | Matt Teahan | 1486 |
| 319 | David Thompson (1956) | 1489 |
| 320 | Mike Rice | 1499 |
| 321 | Ron Webb | 1505 |
| 322 | Scott Meents | 1506 |
| 323 | Jerry Beck | 1515 |
| 324 | Mike Terpstra | 1518 |
| 325 | B.B. Davis | 1525 |
| 326 | Michael Kennedy | 1528 |
| 327 | Phil Dailey | 1530 |
| 328 | Bob Stephens | 1532 |
| 329 | Cliff Webber | 1539 |
| 330 | Lafester Rhodes | 1554 |
| 331 | Larry Easley | 1560 |
| 332 | Bonner Upshaw | 1562 |
| 333 | James Harwell | 1578 |
| 334 | Raymond Dalmau | 1582 |
| 335 | Reggie Gaines | 1589 |
| 336 | Craig Robinson | 1591 |
| 337 | Dan Terwillinger | 1594 |
| 338 | Greg Cook | 1596 |
| 339 | Mike Jones (Auburn) | 1607 |
| 340 | Art Graham | 1615 |
| 341 | Charles Murphy (1966) | 1616 |
| 342 | John Bailey | 1617 |
| 343 | Dwayne Randall | 1620 |
| 344 | Carl Curry | 1625 |
| 345 | Ed James | 1627 |
| 346 | Gary Furniss | 1631 |
| 347 | Steve Rambadt | 1645 |
| 348 | Ed Donohoe | 1653 |
| 349 | Nate Rollins | 1656 |
| 350 | Todd May | 1658 |
| 351 | Tony Bolds | 1661 |
| 352 | John Edwards (F) | 1665 |
| 353 | Tony Wilson | 1666 |
| 354 | Gary Springer | 1670 |
| 355 | Mike Williams | 1673 |
| 356 | Cliff Pruitt | 1685 |
| 357 | Pat Magley | 1695 |
| 358 | Ron Roberts | 1701 |
| 359 | Gary Voce | 1710 |
| 360 | Joe Onyekwelu | 1711 |
| 361 | Percy Eddie | 1713 |
| 362 | Paul Phifer | 1714 |
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