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The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time by Rookie Year-1981
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 | Kevin McHale | PF | 150 |
| 2 | Arvydas Sabonis | C | 163 |
| 3 | Kiki Vandeweghe | SF | 265 |
| 4 | Bill Laimbeer | C | 269 |
| 5 | Joe Barry Carroll | C | 276 |
| 6 | Andrew Toney | SG | 474 |
| 7 | Sarunas Marciulionis | SG | 489 |
| 8 | Darrell Griffith | SG | 527 |
| 9 | Mike Gminski | C | 588 |
| 10 | Mike Woodson | SG | 678 |
| 11 | Larry Drew | PG | 714 |
| 12 | James Donaldson | C | 742 |
| 13 | Rick Mahorn | C | 772 |
| 14 | Rory Sparrow | PG | 784 |
| 15 | Panagiotis Fasoulas | C | 831 |
| 16 | Larry Smith | PF | 847 |
| 17 | Kyle Macy | PG | 1059 |
| 18 | Darwin Cook | PG | 1060 |
| 19 | Bill Hanzlik | SG | 1088 |
| 20 | Johnny Moore | PG | 1111 |
| 21 | Kelvin Ransey | PG | 1198 |
| 22 | Louis Orr | PF | 1215 |
| 23 | Sergei Tarakanov | SF | 1308 |
| 24 | Jerry Sichting | PG | 1511 |
| 25 | Earl Cureton | PF | 1546 |
| 26 | Wes Matthews | PG | 1569 |
| 27 | Jeff Wilkins | C | 1648 |
| 28 | Michael Brooks | SF | 1679 |
| 29 | Mike O'Koren | SF | 1888 |
| 30 | Don Collins | SF | 1986 |
| 31 | Edgar Jones | PF | 2149 |
| 32 | Butch Carter | SF | 2198 |
| 33 | Rickey Brown | C | 2435 |
| 34 | Ronnie Lester | PG | 2509 |
| 35 | Reggie Johnson | PF | 2759 |
| 36 | Jawann Oldham | C | 2764 |
| 37 | Lorenzo Romar | PG | 3083 |
| 38 | Rimas Kurtinaitis | SG | 3133 |
| 39 | Ivan Olivares | SF | 3329 |
| 40 | Lowes Moore | PG | 3668 |
| 41 | Cedrick Hordges | PF | 3766 |
| 42 | Leroy Loggins | SG | 3783 |
| 43 | Kenny Natt | SG | 4244 |
| 44 | Carl Nicks | PG | 4253 |
| 45 | Calvin Garrett | SF | 4585 |
| 46 | Wayne Robinson | PF | 4748 |
| 47 | Mike Harper | C | 5249 |
| 48 | Sam Worthen | PG | 5431 |
| 49 | Michael Wiley | PF | 5537 |
| 50 | John Duren | PG | 5692 |
| 51 | Carlos Terry | SG | 5791 |
| 52 | Clarence Kea | PF | 6003 |
| 53 | Reggie Carter | SG | 6020 |
| 54 | DeWayne Scales | PF | 6096 |
| 55 | Lee Johnson | PF | 6213 |
| 56 | Zoran Cutura | PF | 6251 |
| 57 | James Ray | PF | 6275 |
| 58 | James Wilkes | SF | 6404 |
| 59 | Horacio Lopez | PF | 6695 |
| 60 | Hawkeye Whitney | SG | 6869 |
| 61 | Sandro Dell'Agnello | PF | 6922 |
| 62 | Andrej Podkovyrov | PG | 6988 |
| 63 | Marc Deheneffe | PF | 7178 |
| 64 | Sergei Babenko | SG | 7283 |
| 65 | Kevin Graham | PF | 7336 |
| 66 | Craig Shelton | SF | 7503 |
| 67 | Alan Hardy | SG | 7608 |
| 68 | John Campbell | PF | 7707 |
| 69 | Norman Black | SG | 7742 |
| 70 | Giorgios Gasparis | SG | 8045 |
| 71 | Myles Patrick | SF | 8333 |
| 72 | David Ancrum | SG | 8424 |
| 73 | Darrell Allums | PF | 8431 |
| 74 | Wayne Abrams | SF | 8582 |
| 75 | Ronnie Valentine | PF | 8584 |
| 76 | Viktor Grychshenko | SF | 8665 |
| 77 | John Dronsella | SF | 8787 |
| 78 | Sergei Jeloudok | SF | 8847 |
| 79 | Billy Williams | SG | 8967 |
| 80 | Ralph Drollinger | C | 8980 |
| 81 | John Stroud | SF | 9036 |
| 82 | Dave Britton | PG | 9078 |
| 83 | Tony Fuller | SG | 9098 |
| 84 | Amir Bino | PF | 9154 |
| 85 | Bill Mayfield | SF | 9159 |
| 86 | Eddy Lenaerts | SF | 9215 |
| 87 | Alessandro Fantozzi | PG | 9261 |
| 88 | Billy Reid | SG | 9272 |
| 89 | Edmund Lawrence | C | 9365 |
| 90 | Marco De Waard | SG | 9441 |
| 91 | Randy Owens | SF | 9549 |
| 92 | Art Collins | SG | 9568 |
| 93 | Barry Young | SF | 9593 |
| 94 | Yoav Kadman | PG | 9628 |
| 95 | Rufus Harris | SF | 9662 |
| 96 | Mike Niles | SF | 9789 |
| 97 | Nikos Seretis | C | 9812 |
| 98 | Slobodan Jankovic | SG | 10122 |
| 99 | Mario Oliveira | SG | 10170 |
| 100 | Terry Stotts | SF | 10369 |
| 101 | Dick Miller | SF | 10426 |
| 102 | Dror Colines | SF | 10464 |
| 103 | Andon Schmandourov | C | 10486 |
| 104 | Chad Kinch | SG | 10531 |
| 105 | Monti Davis | PF | 10625 |
| 106 | Tolga Ongoren | PG | 10865 |
| 107 | Alan Taylor | C | 10983 |
| 108 | Mario Boni | SF | 11104 |
| 109 | Bruno Lejeune | SF | 11141 |
| 110 | Don Newman | SG | 11285 |
| 111 | Claudio Crippa | PG | 11372 |
| 112 | Kari-Pekka Klinga | PG | 11510 |
| 113 | Sergei Ivanov | PF | 11609 |
| 114 | Tony E. Jackson | PG | 11776 |
| 115 | Keith McCord | SG | 11777 |
| 116 | Brett Vroman | C | 11794 |
| 117 | Wally Rank | SF | 11829 |
| 118 | Lenny Horton | SF | 11830 |
| 119 | Korky Nelson | C | 11865 |
| 120 | Ron Charles | PF | 12086 |
| 121 | Lloyd Terry | C | 12246 |
| 122 | Lewis Brown | C | 12260 |
| 123 | Ken Jones | C | 12351 |
| 124 | Herb Gray (1958) | PF | 12505 |
| 125 | Billy Foster | PG | 12569 |
| 126 | James Woods | C | 12687 |
| 127 | Nicolaos Panagiotides | SF | 12688 |
| 128 | Don Johnson | C | 12764 |
| 129 | Gib Hinz | C | 13158 |
| 130 | Stan Lamb | SG | 13207 |
| 131 | Dedrick Reffigee | C | 13286 |
| 132 | Calvin Roberts | SF | 13448 |
| 133 | Larry Holmes | SF | 13693 |
| 134 | Tony Turner | SG | 13793 |
| 135 | Larry Belin | PF | 13816 |
| 136 | Al Angelos | PG | 13829 |
| 137 | Stuart House | C | 14024 |
| 138 | Ed Odom | SG | 14200 |
| 139 | Robert Buntic | C | 14263 |
| 140 | Dave Colescott | PG | 14306 |
| 141 | Hassouna Garraoui | C | 14410 |
| 142 | Arnette Hallman | SF | 14627 |
| 143 | Francois Wise | PF | 14668 |
| 144 | Tony Murphy | SG | 14669 |
| 145 | Ed McTague | PG | 14675 |
| 146 | Clyde Austin | PG | 14831 |
| 147 | Wally West | C | 14926 |
| 148 | Ken Garrett | PF | 14987 |
| 149 | Norman Bounds | SF | 15089 |
| 150 | Kurtis Townsend | PG | 15413 |
| 151 | John Nolan | SG | 15458 |
| 152 | Ken Dancy | SF | 15511 |
| 153 | Joe Boback | SF | 15549 |
| 154 | Harold Johnson (1954) | C | 15724 |
| 155 | Dan Frascella | SG | 15899 |
| 156 | Aaron Curry | SG | 16233 |
| 157 | Ed Brown | SG | 16327 |
| 158 | Ron Jones | SG | 16373 |
| 159 | Reggie Gaines | PF | 16508 |
| 160 | David DuPree | PG | 16550 |
| 161 | Willie Willingham | SF | 16591 |
| 162 | Dan Panaggio | PG | 16629 |
| 163 | Art Graham | PF | 16790 |
| 164 | Scott Goold | SG | 17798 |
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