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The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time by Rookie Year-1940
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 | Ed Sadowski | C | 435 |
| 2 | Connie Mack Berry | PF | 1258 |
| 3 | Ernest Andres | SG | 1286 |
| 4 | Thomas Wukovits | PG | 1627 |
| 5 | Wilbert Kautz | SG | 1701 |
| 6 | Robert Neu | SG | 1826 |
| 7 | Lauren Gale | PF | 1902 |
| 8 | Ben Stephens | SG | 1954 |
| 9 | Louis Barle | PF | 2089 |
| 10 | Gene Anderson | SG | 2206 |
| 11 | Leo Gottlieb | PG | 2317 |
| 12 | Ed Parry | SF | 2396 |
| 13 | George Hogan | SG | 2424 |
| 14 | Howard Vocke | SG | 2501 |
| 15 | Darwin Hutchins | PF | 2777 |
| 16 | Robert Nugent | PG | 2967 |
| 17 | Charles Chuckovits | SG | 3036 |
| 18 | Bernard Opper | SG | 3037 |
| 19 | Wilton Putnam | SG | 3174 |
| 20 | Robert Hassmiller | PG | 3322 |
| 21 | Urgel Wintermute | C | 3335 |
| 22 | Edwin Oram | SF | 3351 |
| 23 | James Goff | SF | 3464 |
| 24 | Jim Montgomery | PF | 3743 |
| 25 | Homer Thompson | PF | 3745 |
| 26 | Leroy Mueller | SG | 3838 |
| 27 | Jacob Nagode | SF | 3889 |
| 28 | Willard Pederson | PF | 4040 |
| 29 | Eddie Boyle | PF | 4050 |
| 30 | Jim Currie | SG | 4272 |
| 31 | Paul Chadick | SG | 4517 |
| 32 | Bill Lloyd | SG | 4533 |
| 33 | Harry Sorensen | C | 4534 |
| 34 | Willie Phillips | SG | 5036 |
| 35 | Virgil Batterman | SF | 5371 |
| 36 | Arnold Suddith | SG | 5628 |
| 37 | George Swanson | SG | 5710 |
| 38 | Robert MacLeod | SF | 5818 |
| 39 | Ash Resnick | SF | 5834 |
| 40 | Wilbur Fox | PF | 5858 |
| 41 | Joel Hitt | C | 5938 |
| 42 | Marvin Colen | PG | 6060 |
| 43 | Oscar Olson | SF | 6148 |
| 44 | Gordon McComb | PG | 6331 |
| 45 | Ray Hayes | SG | 6373 |
| 46 | Marvin Stout | PG | 6421 |
| 47 | Harold Dembo | SF | 6460 |
| 48 | Bernard Knoblauch | SF | 6492 |
| 49 | Karl Lillge | SF | 6524 |
| 50 | Louis Jagnow | SG | 6603 |
| 51 | Ruben Reiswerg | PG | 6650 |
| 52 | Harold Swanson | SG | 6707 |
| 53 | Anthony Carp | PF | 6756 |
| 54 | Bill Cramer | C | 6805 |
| 55 | Garmon Lewis | SF | 6903 |
| 56 | Jackie Bowden | SF | 7484 |
| 57 | Ed Kantor | PG | 8073 |
| 58 | Earl Hafner | PG | 8640 |
| 59 | Dutch Newman | PF | 8797 |
| 60 | Johnny Danyo | SF | 8853 |
| 61 | Frank Bores | C | 9254 |
| 62 | Bucky Pierson | SF | 9331 |
| 63 | Mike Jarmon | SG | 9455 |
| 64 | Danny Kaplowitz | SF | 9635 |
| 65 | Lou Lefkowitz | SG | 9760 |
| 66 | Milt Schulman | SG | 10488 |
| 67 | Ed Trubin | PF | 10673 |
| 68 | Harry Kovner | SF | 12790 |
| 69 | Don Manno | SF | 12985 |
| 70 | Ed McCluskey | PG | 13678 |
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