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The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time by Rookie Year-1987
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 | Brad Daugherty | C | 184 |
| 2 | Mark Price | PG | 249 |
| 3 | Dennis Rodman | PF | 256 |
| 4 | Jeff Hornacek | SG | 382 |
| 5 | Chuck Person | PF | 406 |
| 6 | Ron Harper | SG | 494 |
| 7 | Kevin Duckworth | C | 581 |
| 8 | Hot Rod Williams | PF | 612 |
| 9 | Nate McMillan | SG | 719 |
| 10 | Scott Skiles | PG | 751 |
| 11 | Dell Curry | SG | 823 |
| 12 | Johnny Dawkins | PG | 1032 |
| 13 | Johnny Newman | SF | 1041 |
| 14 | Antoine Rigaudeau | PG | 1110 |
| 15 | Arturas Karnisovas | SF | 1232 |
| 16 | John Salley | PF | 1364 |
| 17 | Greg Anderson | PF | 1372 |
| 18 | Buck Johnson | SF | 1379 |
| 19 | Walter Berry | PF | 1418 |
| 20 | John Williams | PF | 1603 |
| 21 | Kenny Gattison | PF | 1728 |
| 22 | Otis Smith | SG | 1735 |
| 23 | Roy Tarpley | C | 1782 |
| 24 | David Wingate | SG | 1865 |
| 25 | Larry Krystkowiak | PF | 1985 |
| 26 | Gintaras Einikis | PF | 2005 |
| 27 | Kenny Walker | SF | 2053 |
| 28 | Mike Brown | C | 2090 |
| 29 | Jerome Mincy | PF | 2097 |
| 30 | Billy Thompson | SF | 2164 |
| 31 | Harold Pressley | SF | 2443 |
| 32 | Pete Myers | SG | 2473 |
| 33 | Tim Kempton | PF | 2581 |
| 34 | Sasa Obradovic | PG | 2818 |
| 35 | Brad Sellers | C | 2890 |
| 36 | Mark Alarie | PF | 3073 |
| 37 | Ben Coleman | C | 3107 |
| 38 | Rafael Addison | SF | 3215 |
| 39 | Andre Turner | PG | 3495 |
| 40 | Greg Dreiling | C | 3764 |
| 41 | Ashraf El Kordy | SF | 3782 |
| 42 | Adam Wojcik | PF | 3867 |
| 43 | John Rogers-Bakker | PF | 4113 |
| 44 | Joao Vianna | PF | 4305 |
| 45 | Carlos Romano | SG | 4528 |
| 46 | Conner Henry | SG | 4573 |
| 47 | William Bedford | C | 4644 |
| 48 | Aramis Naglic | PF | 4702 |
| 49 | Anthony Jones | SG | 4810 |
| 50 | Dave Feitl | C | 4917 |
| 51 | Adrian Branch | SF | 4920 |
| 52 | Eleftherios Kakiousis | PG | 5003 |
| 53 | Clinton Smith | SG | 5154 |
| 54 | Grant Gondrezick | SG | 5217 |
| 55 | Jim Lampley | C | 5263 |
| 56 | Tomas Jofresa | PG | 5314 |
| 57 | Jose Waitman | PF | 5338 |
| 58 | Joe Binion | PF | 5577 |
| 59 | Pearl Washington | PG | 5591 |
| 60 | Ron Rowan | SF | 5630 |
| 61 | John Korfas | PG | 5676 |
| 62 | Georges Adams | SF | 5789 |
| 63 | Ken Barlow | PF | 5928 |
| 64 | Derrick Taylor | PG | 6037 |
| 65 | Scott Meents | PF | 6933 |
| 66 | McKinley Singleton | PG | 6958 |
| 67 | Song Ligang | SF | 7099 |
| 68 | Francesco Vescovi | SF | 7129 |
| 69 | Johnny Rogers | PF | 7130 |
| 70 | Curtis Kitchen | PF | 7494 |
| 71 | Maxim Astanin | PF | 7552 |
| 72 | Ken Green | PF | 7626 |
| 73 | James Carter | PG | 7631 |
| 74 | Brad Wright | PF | 7807 |
| 75 | Heimo Forster | PG | 7885 |
| 76 | Rick Buttrom | SF | 7890 |
| 77 | Olivier Allinei | SG | 8162 |
| 78 | Kevin Henderson | PG | 8205 |
| 79 | Igor Molchanov | PF | 8639 |
| 80 | Thomas Deuster | PF | 8717 |
| 81 | Dan Goethals | C | 8760 |
| 82 | Paul Fortier | PF | 9014 |
| 83 | Perry Young | SG | 9015 |
| 84 | Lorenzo Duncan | PG | 9100 |
| 85 | Dennis Nutt | PG | 9149 |
| 86 | T. Tony Brown | PF | 9251 |
| 87 | Gennadiy Uspenskij | C | 9277 |
| 88 | Cozell McQueen | PF | 9348 |
| 89 | Joan Penarroya | PG | 9725 |
| 90 | Keith Smith | SG | 9803 |
| 91 | Ivo Saksakulm | C | 9998 |
| 92 | Chris Washburn | C | 10088 |
| 93 | Bobby Lee Hurt | PF | 10200 |
| 94 | Dan Bingenheimer | PF | 10270 |
| 95 | Gary Grimes | PF | 10339 |
| 96 | Bruce Douglas | SG | 10373 |
| 97 | Sanjin Kalaica | SG | 10380 |
| 98 | Nigel Miguel | SF | 10432 |
| 99 | Igor Kharchenko | PG | 10518 |
| 100 | Dwayne Polee | SG | 10590 |
| 101 | Andre Patterson | SF | 10737 |
| 102 | Cedric Henderson (1965) | PF | 10837 |
| 103 | Joe Ward | SF | 10917 |
| 104 | Nikolce Petrusevski | SG | 10981 |
| 105 | Andrzej Wierzgacz | C | 11012 |
| 106 | Steve Woodside | C | 11066 |
| 107 | Nenad Bukumirovic | PG | 11095 |
| 108 | Vada Martin | SF | 11125 |
| 109 | Maurice Martin | SF | 11163 |
| 110 | Charalampos Papadakis | C | 11240 |
| 111 | Rolandas Skaisgirys | SG | 11338 |
| 112 | Dale Blaney | SG | 11422 |
| 113 | Calvin Thompson | SG | 11529 |
| 114 | Rolland Halm | SG | 11558 |
| 115 | Paco Garcia | PG | 11584 |
| 116 | Forrest McKenzie | SF | 11596 |
| 117 | Thierry Zaire | C | 11642 |
| 118 | Steffond Johnson | PF | 11648 |
| 119 | Massimo Gattoni | PG | 11741 |
| 120 | Agamemnon Ioannou | SF | 11805 |
| 121 | Andrey Khartchinsky | SF | 11806 |
| 122 | Dave Henderson | SG | 11836 |
| 123 | Myron Jackson | PG | 12011 |
| 124 | Jordi Soler | PG | 12035 |
| 125 | Ioannis Milonas | PF | 12097 |
| 126 | Clive Harriot | SG | 12124 |
| 127 | Mehmet Tinay | C | 12164 |
| 128 | Mustafa Erboy | SF | 12232 |
| 129 | Scott Fisher | PF | 12658 |
| 130 | Ioannis Gakis | PG | 12733 |
| 131 | Dejan Vukosavljevic | SG | 12882 |
| 132 | Irakli Vashakidze | SG | 12979 |
| 133 | Greg Grissom | C | 13004 |
| 134 | Dewayne Johns | PG | 13037 |
| 135 | Luigi Corvo | PG | 13157 |
| 136 | Turabi Genc | SG | 13204 |
| 137 | Jozsef Szajer | PG | 13348 |
| 138 | Cenk Duraklar | PF | 13502 |
| 139 | Dave Colbert | PF | 13545 |
| 140 | Jon Johnson | SF | 13781 |
| 141 | Dror Bardichev | C | 13931 |
| 142 | Ron Kellogg | SG | 13974 |
| 143 | Chauncey Robinson | SG | 14098 |
| 144 | Zeljko Goluza | C | 14463 |
| 145 | Ricky Brown | PF | 14489 |
| 146 | Brent Timm | PG | 14729 |
| 147 | Winston Morgan | SF | 14784 |
| 148 | Keith Morrison | PG | 14879 |
| 149 | Miek Meijerink | SF | 14925 |
| 150 | Dwight Moody | SG | 14992 |
| 151 | Juden Smith | SF | 15040 |
| 152 | Ervin Dillon | PF | 15135 |
| 153 | Bobby Lloyd (1964) | SG | 15186 |
| 154 | Torbjorn Gehrke | PF | 15410 |
| 155 | Oscar Cervantes | SG | 15454 |
| 156 | Umit Tas | SF | 15474 |
| 157 | Bernard Innocent | C | 15509 |
| 158 | Chuck Everson | C | 15594 |
| 159 | Fernando Sa | PF | 15756 |
| 160 | Otis Jennings | C | 15757 |
| 161 | Johnny Brown | SF | 15847 |
| 162 | Tony Hampton | PG | 15895 |
| 163 | Chris Galloway | SG | 15939 |
| 164 | Dino Bergens | PG | 15986 |
| 165 | Jim McCaffrey | SG | 15987 |
| 166 | John Kimbrell | C | 15995 |
| 167 | Steve Hill | SF | 16095 |
| 168 | Ben Davis (1965) | SG | 16103 |
| 169 | Sammy Jackson | SG | 16143 |
| 170 | Anthony Watson | PG | 16187 |
| 171 | Sasa Coric | SG | 16188 |
| 172 | Larry Easley | PF | 16229 |
| 173 | Nedim Hizliates | SF | 16282 |
| 174 | Jim Tharpe | PG | 16322 |
| 175 | Carlos Briggs | PG | 16369 |
| 176 | Darrin Houston | PG | 16370 |
| 177 | Alvin Franklin | PG | 16759 |
| 178 | Mike Graefe | SG | 16787 |
| 179 | Dwayne Randall | PF | 16833 |
| 180 | Ed James | PF | 16870 |
| 181 | Ben Mitchell | PF | 16942 |
| 182 | Paco Martin | SF | 16972 |
| 183 | Jerry Adams | PF | 16974 |
| 184 | Sasa Bajovic | C | 17119 |
| 185 | Huseyin Bugdayci | SF | 17366 |
| 186 | Joe Hurst | SG | 17521 |
| 187 | Greg Spurling | C | 17731 |
| 188 | Marty Embry | C | 17774 |
| 189 | Michael Graham | C | 17875 |
| 190 | Holman Harley | PG | 18182 |
| 191 | Willie Bland | SF | 18927 |
| 192 | Kevin Spurling | C | 18995 |
| 193 | Steve Mitchell | PG | 19214 |
| 194 | Darron Brittman | PG | 19239 |
| 195 | Marty Small | SF | 19350 |
| 196 | Pat DiServio | C | 19378 |
| 197 | Warren Martin | C | 19422 |
| 198 | Jon Taylor | C | 19874 |
| 199 | Dan Palombizio | PF | 20132 |
| 200 | Mitchell Lee | PF | 20176 |
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