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The Top Ranked Small Forwards of the 1970s
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 | John Havlicek | 6 |
| 2 | Julius Erving | 12 |
| 3 | Rick Barry | 14 |
| 4 | Lou Hudson | 40 |
| 5 | John Drew | 47 |
| 6 | Bob Dandridge | 49 |
| 7 | Dave DeBusschere | 53 |
| 8 | Chet Walker | 55 |
| 9 | Tom Van Arsdale | 63 |
| 10 | Jack Marin | 73 |
| 11 | John Johnson | 74 |
| 12 | Campy Russell | 75 |
| 13 | Joe Caldwell | 82 |
| 14 | Jamaal Wilkes | 83 |
| 15 | Marques Johnson | 94 |
| 16 | Roger W. Brown | 105 |
| 17 | Cazzie Russell | 106 |
| 18 | Scott Wedman | 107 |
| 19 | Jim McMillian | 108 |
| 20 | Bill Bradley | 115 |
| 21 | George Carter | 121 |
| 22 | M.L. Carr | 125 |
| 23 | Bernard King | 136 |
| 24 | Bingo Smith | 139 |
| 25 | Don Nelson | 145 |
| 26 | Keith Erickson | 178 |
| 27 | Nate Williams | 180 |
| 28 | John Brisker | 181 |
| 29 | Greg Smith | 194 |
| 30 | Don Adams | 195 |
| 31 | Bob Gross | 204 |
| 32 | Drazen Dalipagic | 210 |
| 33 | Joe Ellis | 211 |
| 34 | Don Kojis | 212 |
| 35 | Junior Bridgeman | 217 |
| 36 | Wendell Ladner | 230 |
| 37 | Terry Dischinger | 235 |
| 38 | Ed Ratleff | 238 |
| 39 | Fred Foster | 242 |
| 40 | Ollie Johnson | 243 |
| 41 | Renzo Bariviera | 247 |
| 42 | Nick Weatherspoon | 255 |
| 43 | Walter Simon | 262 |
| 44 | John Brown | 266 |
| 45 | Mark Olberding | 270 |
| 46 | Jan Van Breda Kolff | 275 |
| 47 | Barry Clemens | 285 |
| 48 | Adrian Dantley | 291 |
| 49 | Aaron James | 296 |
| 50 | Don May | 297 |
| 51 | Doug Moe | 300 |
| 52 | Stan McKenzie | 302 |
| 53 | Jacques Cachemire | 310 |
| 54 | Ljubodrag Simonovic | 312 |
| 55 | Willie Norwood | 316 |
| 56 | Corky Calhoun | 317 |
| 57 | Gus Gerard | 319 |
| 58 | Allan Bristow | 324 |
| 59 | Cedric Maxwell | 325 |
| 60 | John Trapp | 327 |
| 61 | Terry Tyler | 331 |
| 62 | Ed Manning | 334 |
| 63 | Sonny Parker | 343 |
| 64 | Elgin Baylor | 349 |
| 65 | Dick Gibbs | 354 |
| 66 | Bud Stallworth | 356 |
| 67 | Jerry Chambers | 372 |
| 68 | Bob Portman | 389 |
| 69 | Alex English | 392 |
| 70 | Mickey Davis | 396 |
| 71 | Chuck Terry | 404 |
| 72 | Kamil Brabenec | 411 |
| 73 | George Irvine | 417 |
| 74 | Ronald Franz | 418 |
| 75 | Simmie Hill | 420 |
| 76 | Tom Sanders | 422 |
| 77 | Toby Knight | 423 |
| 78 | Bill Turner | 430 |
| 79 | Robert Reid | 431 |
| 80 | Damir Solman | 444 |
| 81 | Dragan Kapicic | 445 |
| 82 | Edward Jurkiewicz | 447 |
| 83 | Emiliano Rodriguez | 448 |
| 84 | Grzegroz Korcz | 452 |
| 85 | Johnny Baum | 466 |
| 86 | Charles Edge | 474 |
| 87 | Travis Grant | 477 |
| 88 | Kenny McIntosh | 481 |
| 89 | Modestas Paulauskas | 483 |
| 90 | George Stone | 484 |
| 91 | Julian Hammond | 486 |
| 92 | George Adams | 491 |
| 93 | Rowland Garrett | 492 |
| 94 | Scott May | 498 |
| 95 | Charles Jordan | 501 |
| 96 | Al Eberhard | 504 |
| 97 | Purvis Short | 512 |
| 98 | Tal Skinner | 515 |
| 99 | Fred Saunders | 517 |
| 100 | Anthony Roberts | 519 |
| 101 | Patrick McFarland | 521 |
| 102 | Bob Bedell | 522 |
| 103 | Jackie Moreland | 530 |
| 104 | Steve Green | 531 |
| 105 | Bob Nash | 532 |
| 106 | Mike Mitchell | 533 |
| 107 | Bob Quick | 534 |
| 108 | Greg Hyder | 538 |
| 109 | Alvin Scott | 541 |
| 110 | Ken Durrett | 547 |
| 111 | John Tschogl | 555 |
| 112 | Glenn McDonald | 564 |
| 113 | Glen Gondrezick | 570 |
| 114 | Joe Kennedy | 587 |
| 115 | Wally Anderzunas | 590 |
| 116 | Wally Walker | 594 |
| 117 | Scott English | 599 |
| 118 | Anatoly Myshkin | 601 |
| 119 | Jim Bradley | 605 |
| 120 | Bud Ogden | 609 |
| 121 | Billy Schaeffer | 617 |
| 122 | Bill Dinwiddie | 619 |
| 123 | Alejandro Urgelles | 621 |
| 124 | Sam Smith | 627 |
| 125 | Mike Lynn | 638 |
| 126 | Jack Givens | 639 |
| 127 | Dennis Wuycik | 642 |
| 128 | Dennis Bell | 650 |
| 129 | Bob Bigelow | 653 |
| 130 | Bob Arnzen | 656 |
| 131 | Larry Mikan | 662 |
| 132 | Bill Chamberlain | 667 |
| 133 | Gary Freeman | 672 |
| 134 | George Tinsley | 684 |
| 135 | Lindsay Hairston | 685 |
| 136 | Jim Marsh | 696 |
| 137 | Marty Byrnes | 699 |
| 138 | Wardell Jackson | 700 |
| 139 | Bob Greacen | 708 |
| 140 | Jim Owens | 714 |
| 141 | Mike Silliman | 715 |
| 142 | Gary Bradds | 718 |
| 143 | Steve Sheppard | 722 |
| 144 | Ruben Rodriguez | 726 |
| 145 | Paul Stovall | 729 |
| 146 | Jacky Dorsey | 731 |
| 147 | Samuel Robinson | 739 |
| 148 | Claude Virden | 741 |
| 149 | Rod Freeman | 743 |
| 150 | Joe Thomas | 747 |
| 151 | Phil Hankinson | 749 |
| 152 | Ken Smith | 759 |
| 153 | Wesley Cox | 761 |
| 154 | Phil Tollestrup | 765 |
| 155 | Alonzo Bradley | 766 |
| 156 | Ken Wilburn | 768 |
| 157 | Odis Allison | 773 |
| 158 | Roderick McDonald | 777 |
| 159 | Charlie Wallace | 782 |
| 160 | Ralph Ogden | 783 |
| 161 | Jerry Baskerville | 787 |
| 162 | Al Williams | 788 |
| 163 | Joe Reaves | 790 |
| 164 | Dave Hamilton | 796 |
| 165 | Johnny Jones | 805 |
| 166 | Erv Staggs | 808 |
| 167 | Mike Macaluso | 810 |
| 168 | Willie Williams | 813 |
| 169 | Vester Marshall | 816 |
| 170 | Claude English | 818 |
| 171 | Ernesto Gherman | 826 |
| 172 | Leo Rautins | 828 |
| 173 | Frankie Sanders | 835 |
| 174 | Aleksandr Salnikov | 837 |
| 175 | Phil Hicks | 843 |
| 176 | John Rudd | 849 |
| 177 | Kenneth Gardner | 850 |
| 178 | Lonnie Lynn | 851 |
| 179 | Bob Davis | 856 |
| 180 | Hank Williams | 860 |
| 181 | Bob Molinski | 861 |
| 182 | Gene Short | 863 |
| 183 | Jackie Dinkins | 865 |
| 184 | Jan Bobrovsky | 870 |
| 185 | Walt Szczerbiak | 872 |
| 186 | Jim O'Brien | 874 |
| 187 | Mark Minor | 877 |
| 188 | William Adornado | 879 |
| 189 | Ben Warley | 880 |
| 190 | Owen Wells | 887 |
| 191 | Jaime Mariano | 892 |
| 192 | Victor Hernandez | 894 |
| 193 | Holger Geschwindner | 899 |
| 194 | Norm Cook | 901 |
| 195 | Frank Kendrick | 905 |
| 196 | Sid Catlett | 908 |
| 197 | Ben Clyde | 910 |
| 198 | Ray Tomlinson | 920 |
| 199 | Greg Griffin | 925 |
| 200 | Willie Murrell | 928 |
| 201 | Andy Walker | 930 |
| 202 | Jim Creighton | 932 |
| 203 | Shoji Yuki | 935 |
| 204 | Ken Boyd | 937 |
| 205 | Andrzej Kasprzak | 938 |
| 206 | Hubie White | 941 |
| 207 | Wlamir Marques | 945 |
| 208 | John Savage | 947 |
| 209 | Irv Kiffin | 957 |
| 210 | Kim Anderson | 958 |
| 211 | Mark Crow | 959 |
| 212 | Riney Lochmann | 960 |
| 213 | Angel Santiago | 963 |
| 214 | Sylvester Cuyler | 976 |
| 215 | Grady O'Malley | 979 |
| 216 | Tony Barnett | 987 |
| 217 | Jackie Robinson | 992 |
| 218 | Larry Moffett | 993 |
| 219 | Nobuo Chigusa | 995 |
| 220 | John Olive | 1000 |
| 221 | Eddie Owens | 1003 |
| 222 | Jay Miller | 1017 |
| 223 | Greg Bunch | 1020 |
| 224 | Tony Koski | 1023 |
| 225 | Bernard Hardin | 1024 |
| 226 | Chip Johnson | 1026 |
| 227 | Babacar Seck | 1027 |
| 228 | Ray Epps | 1032 |
| 229 | Waite Bellamy | 1033 |
| 230 | Vincent White | 1034 |
| 231 | Adel Sharaf | 1040 |
| 232 | Vann Williford | 1044 |
| 233 | Art Heyman | 1051 |
| 234 | Jim Jackson | 1059 |
| 235 | Collis Temple | 1063 |
| 236 | Essie Hollis | 1066 |
| 237 | Bankaly Kaba | 1068 |
| 238 | Ed Searcy | 1071 |
| 239 | Walt Manghan | 1080 |
| 240 | Mike Morrow | 1083 |
| 241 | Ramon Fernandez | 1089 |
| 242 | Jerry Rook | 1092 |
| 243 | Vlastimil Klimes | 1093 |
| 244 | Gilson De Jesus | 1096 |
| 245 | Lynn Shackelford | 1099 |
| 246 | Al Fleming | 1102 |
| 247 | Harry Davis | 1105 |
| 248 | Pete McCracken | 1111 |
| 249 | Dick Davidson | 1112 |
| 250 | A.W. Holt | 1114 |
| 251 | Dwight Waller | 1118 |
| 252 | Lew Massey | 1125 |
| 253 | Dallas Thornton | 1127 |
| 254 | Elnardo Webster | 1130 |
| 255 | John Postley | 1132 |
| 256 | Rickey Lee | 1141 |
| 257 | Jackie Wilson | 1150 |
| 258 | Bob Ford | 1157 |
| 259 | Mel Witherspoon | 1158 |
| 260 | Bob McIntyre | 1163 |
| 261 | Roscoe Wilson | 1169 |
| 262 | Bruce Spraggins | 1170 |
| 263 | Jerry Christian | 1171 |
| 264 | John Fairchild | 1173 |
| 265 | Tom Blue | 1174 |
| 266 | Dan Crenshaw | 1177 |
| 267 | Roy Jones | 1178 |
| 268 | Sterling Wright | 1180 |
| 269 | Ike King | 1182 |
| 270 | Barry Kramer | 1184 |
| 271 | Jim Crawford | 1196 |
| 272 | Joe Cromer | 1198 |
| 273 | Jasper Wilson | 1200 |
| 274 | Mike Johnson (1947) | 1201 |
| 275 | Jeff Rush | 1207 |
| 276 | Steve McMahon | 1213 |
| 277 | Mike Pyatt | 1223 |
| 278 | Cliff Hagan | 1229 |
| 279 | Ben Johnson | 1231 |
| 280 | Stan Wright | 1233 |
| 281 | George Berry | 1237 |
| 282 | Willie Scott | 1242 |
| 283 | Mike Hauer | 1246 |
| 284 | Guy Arnold | 1248 |
| 285 | Doug Kemble | 1253 |
| 286 | Rusty Parker | 1255 |
| 287 | Pete DeHaven | 1259 |
| 288 | Wilber Kirkland | 1262 |
| 289 | Tony Vaz | 1265 |
| 290 | Darryl Brown | 1269 |
| 291 | Jerry Radocha | 1270 |
| 292 | Ron Bouldin | 1273 |
| 293 | John Richardson | 1276 |
| 294 | Stan Wlodarczyk | 1277 |
| 295 | Charles Kirkland | 1284 |
| 296 | Dave Reavis | 1286 |
| 297 | Tony Prince | 1287 |
| 298 | Monroe McTaw | 1288 |
| 299 | Phil Schoff | 1290 |
| 300 | Lew Hill | 1293 |
| 301 | John Morley | 1300 |
| 302 | Jack Gillespie | 1303 |
| 303 | Tony Ebner | 1306 |
| 304 | Bobby Edmonds | 1309 |
| 305 | Dan Ogletree | 1310 |
| 306 | Jarrett Durham | 1313 |
| 307 | Horace Brawley | 1315 |
| 308 | Elisha McSweeney | 1319 |
| 309 | Ron Anthony | 1322 |
| 310 | Carlo DeTommaso | 1324 |
| 311 | Harold Driver | 1326 |
| 312 | Warren Isaac | 1328 |
| 313 | Ian Davies | 1330 |
| 314 | Cal Martin | 1333 |
| 315 | Charles Gugliotta | 1336 |
| 316 | Harry Barnes | 1339 |
| 317 | Carey Bailey | 1341 |
| 318 | Tony Johnson | 1347 |
| 319 | Ron Dorsey | 1349 |
| 320 | Ron Rippetoe | 1352 |
| 321 | Greg Bell | 1358 |
| 322 | Larry Harris | 1360 |
| 323 | Greg Cisson | 1362 |
| 324 | Chris Sease | 1363 |
| 325 | Herman Harris | 1365 |
| 326 | Mike Allocco | 1366 |
| 327 | Bob Butts | 1369 |
| 328 | Joe DiCocco | 1374 |
| 329 | Pat McKinley | 1375 |
| 330 | Bernie Portnoy | 1377 |
| 331 | Dennis Dickens | 1378 |
| 332 | Eric Gray | 1379 |
| 333 | L.J. Wheeler | 1380 |
| 334 | Mike Bernard | 1381 |
| 335 | Fred McRae | 1383 |
| 336 | Billy Taylor | 1391 |
| 337 | Bob Brooks | 1392 |
| 338 | Dana Skinner | 1393 |
| 339 | John Ramsay | 1398 |
| 340 | Ken House | 1402 |
| 341 | Bill Paterno | 1405 |
| 342 | Mike Boylan | 1411 |
| 343 | Rudy Bogad | 1412 |
| 344 | Pete LaCorte | 1413 |
| 345 | Willie Flowers | 1422 |
| 346 | Len Poole | 1425 |
| 347 | Mike Jones (Temple) | 1426 |
| 348 | Tom Chapin | 1430 |
| 349 | George Hicker | 1436 |
| 350 | John Smothers | 1437 |
| 351 | Joe Anderson | 1439 |
| 352 | Vaughn Harper | 1440 |
| 353 | Rodney Bass | 1443 |
| 354 | Robert O'Dell | 1444 |
| 355 | Bobby Livingston | 1455 |
| 356 | Frank Heyward | 1463 |
| 357 | James Morris | 1467 |
| 358 | Nick Werkman | 1468 |
| 359 | Robert Neal | 1484 |
| 360 | Ted Campbell | 1486 |
| 361 | Frank Gugliotta | 1487 |
| 362 | John Schetzsle | 1494 |
| 363 | Andy Johnson | 1496 |
| 364 | Tom Mitchell | 1497 |
| 365 | Jim McCloud | 1506 |
| 366 | Tom Motley | 1510 |
| 367 | Mike Spencer | 1515 |
| 368 | Larry Bates | 1523 |
| 369 | Jay Barnhart | 1532 |
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