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The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time by Rookie Year-1938
Notes: This is a list of the greatest basketball players to start their pro career in the year listed.
| Rnk | Athlete | POS | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jerry Bush | PF | 939 |
| 2 | Hank Luisetti | C | 1124 |
| 3 | Jack Ozburn | SG | 1560 |
| 4 | Howard Cable | SF | 1616 |
| 5 | Mike Bloom | PF | 1621 |
| 6 | Herman Witasek | SG | 1668 |
| 7 | Tommy Nisbet | PG | 2148 |
| 8 | Walt Miller | SF | 2207 |
| 9 | Harold Cunningham | PF | 2545 |
| 10 | Ben Goldfaden | SF | 2593 |
| 11 | Walter Stankey | PF | 2639 |
| 12 | Ace Abbott | PF | 2680 |
| 13 | Alfred Bonniwell | SG | 3061 |
| 14 | Talmadge Bennett | SF | 3062 |
| 15 | Raymond Morstadt | PF | 3064 |
| 16 | Felix Preboski | SF | 3076 |
| 17 | Joe Sotak | PF | 3117 |
| 18 | Hyman Ginsburg | PG | 3190 |
| 19 | Steve Juenger | PF | 3267 |
| 20 | Fred Grafft | PG | 3479 |
| 21 | Paul Tobin | PG | 3542 |
| 22 | Louis Rutter | SG | 3558 |
| 23 | Kenneth Gunning | SG | 3600 |
| 24 | William Jesko | SG | 3614 |
| 25 | Louie Sauer | PF | 3654 |
| 26 | Bill Zubic | C | 3660 |
| 27 | Donald Betourne | SF | 3716 |
| 28 | James Hilgemann | SG | 3781 |
| 29 | Leo Crowe | PG | 3825 |
| 30 | Glenn Roberts | C | 3833 |
| 31 | August Vander Meulen | C | 3844 |
| 32 | Ed Campion | SG | 3885 |
| 33 | Ray Hamann | SG | 3888 |
| 34 | John Hoekstra | C | 3961 |
| 35 | Arnold Haarlow | SF | 4070 |
| 36 | Herbert Bonn | SF | 4176 |
| 37 | Bernie Fliegel | C | 4222 |
| 38 | Dean Mealy | C | 4294 |
| 39 | Herb Hutchinson | SF | 4376 |
| 40 | Matt Guokas Sr. | SF | 4515 |
| 41 | Searle Proffitt | SF | 4568 |
| 42 | Donald Moore | PG | 4625 |
| 43 | Robert Dowell | C | 4721 |
| 44 | Edward Rigg | SG | 4754 |
| 45 | Joseph Snyder | SF | 4830 |
| 46 | Milas Shoun | C | 4849 |
| 47 | William Fitts | SG | 4893 |
| 48 | Warren Hair | PG | 4916 |
| 49 | Chelso Tamagno | SG | 4918 |
| 50 | George Svendsen | C | 4962 |
| 51 | Morris Johnson | SF | 5075 |
| 52 | Claude Holmes | PG | 5182 |
| 53 | Ken Jordan | SF | 5257 |
| 54 | Edward Kweller | C | 5297 |
| 55 | George Malackany | PG | 5319 |
| 56 | Jack Sterling | C | 5347 |
| 57 | Joe Polcha | SF | 5386 |
| 58 | George Loucks | C | 5402 |
| 59 | Edmund Malanowicz | C | 5442 |
| 60 | George Wilson (1914) | SF | 5517 |
| 61 | Cornelius O'Donnell | PF | 5550 |
| 62 | John Shaffer | PF | 5582 |
| 63 | John McAdams | PG | 5629 |
| 64 | Wilmer Hosket | C | 5675 |
| 65 | John Wiethe | SG | 5741 |
| 66 | Byron Evard | PG | 5744 |
| 67 | Big Moose Meyer | PF | 5777 |
| 68 | Everett Swank | SG | 5778 |
| 69 | Beryl Drummond | SG | 5813 |
| 70 | Daniel Carnevale | SG | 5860 |
| 71 | Thomas Lawry | SF | 5899 |
| 72 | Paul Coleman | SG | 5939 |
| 73 | Denny Elliot | PG | 6018 |
| 74 | Stanley Arnzen | SF | 6062 |
| 75 | Seward Leeka | SG | 6105 |
| 76 | Stanley Raiman | SG | 6149 |
| 77 | Earl Thomas | C | 6225 |
| 78 | Steve Pawk | C | 6240 |
| 79 | Joseph Kruse | SG | 6332 |
| 80 | Curtis McMahon | SG | 6374 |
| 81 | Emmett Morrison | SF | 6422 |
| 82 | H. Mechling | SG | 6462 |
| 83 | Gerald Archibald | SG | 6464 |
| 84 | Malcolm Rush | SF | 6493 |
| 85 | Stan Jackson | SF | 6525 |
| 86 | Byron Bell | C | 6561 |
| 87 | Mickey Schoenfeld | PG | 6761 |
| 88 | Frank Shamel | SF | 6904 |
| 89 | Clyde Anton | SG | 7000 |
| 90 | James O'Donnell | PF | 7050 |
| 91 | Harold Bowers | PG | 7110 |
| 92 | Fred Fechtman | C | 7173 |
| 93 | Little Moose Meyer | SG | 7428 |
| 94 | Glenn Schlechty | PF | 7476 |
| 95 | Wyman Roberts | SF | 7539 |
| 96 | Tom Flanagan | SF | 7549 |
| 97 | Stub Jacobson | C | 7599 |
| 98 | McConnell | SG | 7721 |
| 99 | Don Walsh | PF | 7846 |
| 100 | Loren Wright | SG | 7900 |
| 101 | Leroy Lins | SG | 7952 |
| 102 | Pete Basich | PG | 8010 |
| 103 | Jack Sullivan | SF | 8074 |
| 104 | Robert Lytle | PF | 8130 |
| 105 | Bob DeWeese | PG | 8247 |
| 106 | Eugene Scholz | SG | 8299 |
| 107 | Devon Smith | SF | 8325 |
| 108 | Gaylord Woltzen | SG | 8444 |
| 109 | John Lenhart | PF | 8500 |
| 110 | Edward Stege | PF | 8560 |
| 111 | Edgar Saffer | SF | 8622 |
| 112 | Milt Perkel | SG | 8753 |
| 113 | Irv Schneider | PF | 8817 |
| 114 | Cy Schneidman | SG | 9259 |
| 115 | Sammy Van Hook | SG | 9294 |
| 116 | Ace Tramantan | SG | 9456 |
| 117 | Beano Resnick | PF | 9879 |
| 118 | Lou Dubin | SF | 10068 |
| 119 | Babe Maselan | PF | 10227 |
| 120 | Ed Hulton | PF | 10286 |
| 121 | Knocky Thomas | SF | 10662 |
| 122 | Art Heffner | SF | 13215 |
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