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The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time by Rookie Year-1956
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 | Maurice Stokes | PF | 89 |
| 2 | Jack Twyman | SF | 93 |
| 3 | Tom Gola | SG | 125 |
| 4 | Kenny Sears | PF | 160 |
| 5 | Dick Garmaker | SG | 259 |
| 6 | Walter Dukes | C | 262 |
| 7 | Ed Conlin | SF | 418 |
| 8 | Chuck Noble | SG | 422 |
| 9 | Jim Loscutoff | SF | 537 |
| 10 | Al Ferrari | SG | 766 |
| 11 | Med Park | SG | 920 |
| 12 | Ed Fleming | SG | 1047 |
| 13 | Dick Ricketts | PF | 1052 |
| 14 | Richie Regan | PG | 1299 |
| 15 | Corky Devlin | SG | 1305 |
| 16 | Ivo Daneu | PG | 1378 |
| 17 | Jack Stephens | SG | 1482 |
| 18 | Chuck Mencel | PG | 1534 |
| 19 | Dick Hemric | PF | 1565 |
| 20 | Bob Schafer | SG | 1906 |
| 21 | Dick Atha | SG | 2028 |
| 22 | Chris Harris | SG | 2346 |
| 23 | Johnny Horan | SF | 2520 |
| 24 | Don Bielke | C | 2587 |
| 25 | Andrzej Pstrokonski | PG | 2955 |
| 26 | Jiri Ammer | SF | 2956 |
| 27 | John Loridon | PG | 2957 |
| 28 | Mihai Albu | SF | 2958 |
| 29 | Stacey Arceneaux | SF | 3416 |
| 30 | Red Davis | C | 3610 |
| 31 | Bohumil Tomasek | PF | 4287 |
| 32 | John Chaney (1932) | PG | 4661 |
| 33 | Roger Antoine | SG | 4715 |
| 34 | Buddy Thompson | SG | 5052 |
| 35 | Jesse Arnelle | PF | 5354 |
| 36 | Walter Marquez | PG | 5765 |
| 37 | Bob Santini | SF | 5808 |
| 38 | Tsu-Li Chen | SF | 5874 |
| 39 | Max Dorigo | SF | 6315 |
| 40 | Howie Landa | PG | 6516 |
| 41 | Yee Tit Kwan | PG | 6704 |
| 42 | Rolando Etchepare | PF | 6731 |
| 43 | Edson Bispo | C | 6732 |
| 44 | Franco Lombardi | SF | 6848 |
| 45 | Dick Welsh | PF | 6896 |
| 46 | Inge Friedenfelds | SG | 6897 |
| 47 | John McLeod | PG | 6925 |
| 48 | George Dancis | PF | 7046 |
| 49 | Takeo Sugiyama | PG | 7224 |
| 50 | Suet-Font Tong | SF | 7298 |
| 51 | Yih-Jiun Wang | PG | 7360 |
| 52 | Armando Herrera | PG | 7422 |
| 53 | Iliya Mirchev | C | 7423 |
| 54 | Yet-An Wu | SF | 7473 |
| 55 | Marty Satalino | PG | 7519 |
| 56 | Atanas Atanasov | PG | 7594 |
| 57 | Carlos Blixen | SG | 7654 |
| 58 | Yeong-Gi Kim | PG | 7655 |
| 59 | Shutaro Shoji | PG | 7785 |
| 60 | Robert Jeangerard | SG | 7841 |
| 61 | Bob Burtwell | PG | 7899 |
| 62 | Jing-Huan Ling | SF | 8008 |
| 63 | Hiroshi Saito | SG | 8070 |
| 64 | James Yap | SG | 8127 |
| 65 | Raul Mera | PG | 8128 |
| 66 | Algis Ignatavicius | SG | 8189 |
| 67 | Mongkol Aimmanolrom | SG | 8245 |
| 68 | Doug Brinham | SF | 8297 |
| 69 | Ramiro Cortes | SG | 8298 |
| 70 | Peteris Bumbers | SG | 8363 |
| 71 | Ron Tomsic | PG | 8440 |
| 72 | Kenichi Imaizumi | SG | 8495 |
| 73 | Bud Haabestad | SF | 8600 |
| 74 | Takashi Itoyama | C | 8851 |
| 75 | Tsvetko Slavov | PF | 9040 |
| 76 | Wang Xedun | SG | 9105 |
| 77 | Sae-Lim Kuang | PF | 9283 |
| 78 | Gerre Smith | PF | 10152 |
| 79 | Ed Wiener | PF | 10605 |
| 80 | Ed Cunningham | PF | 10779 |
| 81 | Ed Wenz | PF | 11469 |
| 82 | Mal Duffy | PG | 11562 |
| 83 | Herky Lamley | PF | 11692 |
| 84 | Nick Maguire | C | 11935 |
| 85 | Charley Maxwell | SG | 12040 |
| 86 | Hubie Brown | PG | 12049 |
| 87 | Jack Devine | PF | 12091 |
| 88 | Jack Straub | SF | 12297 |
| 89 | Ted Jones | PF | 12464 |
| 90 | Dan Lyons | PF | 12982 |
| 91 | Bobby Gall | PF | 13044 |
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