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The Top Ranked Shooting Guards of the 1970s
Notes: This list is based on pro stats.
What players did in college is not factored into this list.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Jerry West | 7 |
| 2 | Pete Maravich | 10 |
| 3 | George Gervin | 19 |
| 4 | Charlie Scott | 20 |
| 5 | David Thompson | 23 |
| 6 | Dave Bing | 25 |
| 7 | Randy Smith | 27 |
| 8 | Oscar Robertson | 28 |
| 9 | Billy Knight | 29 |
| 10 | Paul Westphal | 32 |
| 11 | Walter Davis | 48 |
| 12 | Jeff Mullins | 52 |
| 13 | Doug Collins | 56 |
| 14 | Earl Monroe | 58 |
| 15 | Archie Clark | 59 |
| 16 | Phil Chenier | 60 |
| 17 | Ron Boone | 62 |
| 18 | Fred Carter | 64 |
| 19 | Phil Smith | 65 |
| 20 | Dick Van Arsdale | 69 |
| 21 | Brian Winters | 72 |
| 22 | Ralph Simpson | 77 |
| 23 | Jimmy Jones | 85 |
| 24 | Don Buse | 87 |
| 25 | Jerry Sloan | 91 |
| 26 | Donnie Freeman | 96 |
| 27 | Mike Newlin | 97 |
| 28 | Austin Carr | 100 |
| 29 | Hal Greer | 101 |
| 30 | Lionel Hollins | 104 |
| 31 | Larry Jones | 110 |
| 32 | John Williamson | 113 |
| 33 | James Silas | 119 |
| 34 | Clem Haskins | 123 |
| 35 | Dick Snyder | 124 |
| 36 | Ricky Sobers | 138 |
| 37 | Mike Riordan | 141 |
| 38 | Herm Gilliam | 142 |
| 39 | Stu Lantz | 147 |
| 40 | Jim Barnett | 148 |
| 41 | Johnny Neumann | 156 |
| 42 | World B. Free | 158 |
| 43 | Otis Birdsong | 166 |
| 44 | Glen Combs | 167 |
| 45 | Eric Money | 168 |
| 46 | Jon McGlocklin | 172 |
| 47 | Steve Jones | 174 |
| 48 | Chris Ford | 177 |
| 49 | Don Chaney | 182 |
| 50 | Bill Keller | 183 |
| 51 | Ted McClain | 187 |
| 52 | Ron Williams | 189 |
| 53 | Mike Gale | 191 |
| 54 | Dick Garrett | 203 |
| 55 | Larry Steele | 205 |
| 56 | Larry Miller | 215 |
| 57 | Bob Verga | 216 |
| 58 | Matt Guokas Jr. | 220 |
| 59 | Warren Jabali | 232 |
| 60 | Wilbur Holland | 233 |
| 61 | Dick Barnett | 236 |
| 62 | John Mengelt | 244 |
| 63 | Wayne Brabender | 246 |
| 64 | Bob Wilkerson | 287 |
| 65 | Reggie Theus | 288 |
| 66 | Charles Johnson | 289 |
| 67 | Ken Charles | 295 |
| 68 | Al Skinner | 304 |
| 69 | John Warren | 322 |
| 70 | Bernie Williams | 337 |
| 71 | Sergei Belov | 340 |
| 72 | Mike A. Davis | 346 |
| 73 | Kevin Grevey | 350 |
| 74 | Pat Riley | 351 |
| 75 | Skeeter Swift | 352 |
| 76 | Bob Warren | 353 |
| 77 | Oliver Taylor | 363 |
| 78 | Earl Tatum | 377 |
| 79 | Levern Tart | 379 |
| 80 | Gary Brokaw | 385 |
| 81 | Larry Siegfried | 390 |
| 82 | Larry Cannon | 398 |
| 83 | Gary Melchionni | 408 |
| 84 | Mike Barrett | 410 |
| 85 | Kevin Joyce | 413 |
| 86 | Darel Carrier | 414 |
| 87 | John Long | 416 |
| 88 | Claude Terry | 419 |
| 89 | Dragan Kicanovic | 421 |
| 90 | Mike Barr | 424 |
| 91 | Rick Mount | 429 |
| 92 | Charlie Davis | 432 |
| 93 | Dragutin Cermak | 446 |
| 94 | Jean-Pierre Staelens | 454 |
| 95 | Manuel Flores | 455 |
| 96 | Miki Berkovich | 456 |
| 97 | Rato Tvrdic | 459 |
| 98 | Ron Brewer | 460 |
| 99 | Willie McCarter | 465 |
| 100 | Freddie Crawford | 468 |
| 101 | Mike Flynn | 471 |
| 102 | Shaler Halimon | 478 |
| 103 | Fred Hilton | 479 |
| 104 | Eddie Miles | 485 |
| 105 | Kevin Stacom | 488 |
| 106 | Ticky Burden | 489 |
| 107 | Mike D'Antoni | 493 |
| 108 | Ernie Grunfeld | 500 |
| 109 | Larry Finch | 503 |
| 110 | Rod Thorn | 518 |
| 111 | Barry Parkhill | 536 |
| 112 | Adrian Smith | 544 |
| 113 | Nate Hawthorne | 545 |
| 114 | Micheal Ray Richardson | 552 |
| 115 | Joe Cooke | 557 |
| 116 | Bernie Fryer | 560 |
| 117 | Terry Furlow | 562 |
| 118 | Nick Jones | 566 |
| 119 | Mike Butler | 567 |
| 120 | Billy Harris | 568 |
| 121 | Bobby E. Wilson | 574 |
| 122 | Rich Rinaldi | 576 |
| 123 | T.R. Dunn | 579 |
| 124 | Jeff Judkins | 580 |
| 125 | Mirza Delibasic | 583 |
| 126 | Jeff Halliburton | 585 |
| 127 | Paul Long | 593 |
| 128 | Harvey Marlatt | 600 |
| 129 | Charles Beasley | 603 |
| 130 | John Laskowski | 604 |
| 131 | Leon Benbow | 606 |
| 132 | Bobby Lewis | 607 |
| 133 | Wayne Chapman | 608 |
| 134 | Connie Norman | 612 |
| 135 | Mike Price | 614 |
| 136 | Gus Bailey | 616 |
| 137 | John Vallely | 620 |
| 138 | Mike Pratt | 623 |
| 139 | Bubbles Hawkins | 626 |
| 140 | Freeman Williams | 629 |
| 141 | Loy Petersen | 630 |
| 142 | Winford Boynes | 631 |
| 143 | Fred Taylor | 633 |
| 144 | Russ Lee | 635 |
| 145 | Glenn Hansen | 637 |
| 146 | John Arthurs | 640 |
| 147 | Eddie Palubinskas | 643 |
| 148 | Darrell Elston | 647 |
| 149 | Sam H. Williams | 649 |
| 150 | Richie Guerin | 652 |
| 151 | Jimmy Collins | 657 |
| 152 | Mike Glenn | 658 |
| 153 | Rod Derline | 659 |
| 154 | Al Hairston | 660 |
| 155 | Henry Ward | 661 |
| 156 | Rex Morgan | 665 |
| 157 | Paul McCracken | 668 |
| 158 | Calvin Fowler | 671 |
| 159 | Joe DePre | 677 |
| 160 | Gary Zeller | 680 |
| 161 | Lloyd Batts | 682 |
| 162 | Jeff Webb | 686 |
| 163 | Fly Williams | 690 |
| 164 | Rudy White | 693 |
| 165 | Ruperto Herrera | 697 |
| 166 | Isaiah Wilson | 702 |
| 167 | Jimmy Conner | 704 |
| 168 | Don Smith | 706 |
| 169 | Arturo Guerrero | 712 |
| 170 | Bob Lackey | 713 |
| 171 | Levi Fontaine | 716 |
| 172 | Tony Robertson | 717 |
| 173 | Wilbert Robinson | 719 |
| 174 | Manuel Raga | 720 |
| 175 | Tate Armstrong | 724 |
| 176 | Pierre Russell | 735 |
| 177 | Neftali Rivera | 736 |
| 178 | Andris Blicavs | 738 |
| 179 | Steve Chubin | 740 |
| 180 | Moe Barr | 742 |
| 181 | Raymond Townsend | 748 |
| 182 | Hector Blondet | 750 |
| 183 | Tom Thacker | 751 |
| 184 | Frank Russell | 753 |
| 185 | Rick Wilson | 754 |
| 186 | Allen Murphy | 755 |
| 187 | Stan Pawlak | 756 |
| 188 | Andre Wakefield | 757 |
| 189 | Joe Hassett | 760 |
| 190 | Justus Thigpen Sr. | 762 |
| 191 | Charlie Yelverton | 764 |
| 192 | Ben Kelso | 772 |
| 193 | Jake Jones | 779 |
| 194 | Mark Sibley | 794 |
| 195 | Loyd King | 798 |
| 196 | Dong-Pa Shin | 799 |
| 197 | Masatomo Traniguchi | 800 |
| 198 | Omar Arrestia | 811 |
| 199 | Wei Ping Chang | 812 |
| 200 | Marlon Redmond | 820 |
| 201 | Pedro Rivas | 822 |
| 202 | Jesse Dark | 827 |
| 203 | Tom Hagan | 830 |
| 204 | Mack Daughtry | 831 |
| 205 | Ken Mayfield | 833 |
| 206 | Jerome Anderson | 841 |
| 207 | Ron Davis | 842 |
| 208 | Bill Ligon | 845 |
| 209 | Jackie Ridgle | 848 |
| 210 | Greg Jackson | 853 |
| 211 | Bob Warlick | 862 |
| 212 | Henry Bacon | 864 |
| 213 | Oscar Schmidt | 866 |
| 214 | Samuel Watts | 868 |
| 215 | Reggie Lacefield | 871 |
| 216 | Brian Heaney | 875 |
| 217 | Soo-Kyo Park | 878 |
| 218 | Joe Heiser | 881 |
| 219 | Bob Carrington | 883 |
| 220 | Clyde Dickey | 885 |
| 221 | Ramon Cruz | 888 |
| 222 | Milton Setrini | 890 |
| 223 | Marv Winkler | 891 |
| 224 | Ted Manakas | 893 |
| 225 | Henry Logan | 898 |
| 226 | Mercos Abdala | 900 |
| 227 | Cliff Anderson | 902 |
| 228 | Walter Luckett | 903 |
| 229 | Butch Feher | 904 |
| 230 | Ron Carter | 907 |
| 231 | Bubba Gary | 914 |
| 232 | Phil Brown | 915 |
| 233 | Earnie Killum | 918 |
| 234 | Larry Fogle | 922 |
| 235 | Derek Sankey | 923 |
| 236 | Ron Perry | 926 |
| 237 | Maurice McHartley | 929 |
| 238 | Danny Florencio | 931 |
| 239 | Dick Nemelka | 939 |
| 240 | Tommy Kron | 940 |
| 241 | Tseng Wuchi | 943 |
| 242 | Vladimir Arzamaskov | 944 |
| 243 | Adilson Nascimento | 946 |
| 244 | Mo Howard | 949 |
| 245 | Kenny Washington | 951 |
| 246 | John Shannon | 955 |
| 247 | Kevin Cluess | 956 |
| 248 | Ron Nelson | 961 |
| 249 | Roger Phegley | 965 |
| 250 | Ricky Marsh | 968 |
| 251 | Phil Walker | 969 |
| 252 | Bill Higgins | 971 |
| 253 | Tieng Chu Mu | 974 |
| 254 | Sam Smith (1955) | 986 |
| 255 | Pete LaMantia | 989 |
| 256 | Stan Pietkiewicz | 996 |
| 257 | Robert Brooker | 997 |
| 258 | Jose Edvard Simoes | 1001 |
| 259 | Ron King | 1002 |
| 260 | Keith Herron | 1004 |
| 261 | Rich Laurel | 1007 |
| 262 | Ken Macklin | 1008 |
| 263 | George Reynolds | 1009 |
| 264 | Jim Hayes | 1011 |
| 265 | Larry Johnson (1954) | 1012 |
| 266 | Steven Kramer | 1015 |
| 267 | Dong-Kwong Kim | 1018 |
| 268 | El Sayed Mubarak | 1019 |
| 269 | Jiri Pospisil | 1021 |
| 270 | Wayman Britt | 1022 |
| 271 | Phil Bond | 1031 |
| 272 | Allie McGuire | 1036 |
| 273 | Eugene Parker | 1037 |
| 274 | Brad Hoffman | 1041 |
| 275 | Chuckie Williams | 1042 |
| 276 | Eduardo Cadilac | 1043 |
| 277 | Michael Cooper | 1046 |
| 278 | Stephen Wilson | 1050 |
| 279 | Jerry Pender | 1055 |
| 280 | Howie Wright | 1062 |
| 281 | Keith Starr | 1065 |
| 282 | Song-Ung Park | 1067 |
| 283 | Gene Phillips | 1069 |
| 284 | Jay Neary | 1070 |
| 285 | Pierre Martin Sagna | 1081 |
| 286 | Don Carlos | 1082 |
| 287 | Joseph Lopez | 1088 |
| 288 | Brian Mahoney | 1091 |
| 289 | Sam Simmons | 1094 |
| 290 | Wayne Smith | 1100 |
| 291 | Jerry Fort | 1101 |
| 292 | Billy Ray Bates | 1106 |
| 293 | Swish McKinney | 1120 |
| 294 | Aron Stewart | 1126 |
| 295 | Roy McPipe | 1129 |
| 296 | Bobby Fields | 1133 |
| 297 | Phil Sellers | 1135 |
| 298 | Sandy Smith | 1143 |
| 299 | Bill Jones (1944) | 1145 |
| 300 | Jim Boeheim | 1149 |
| 301 | Rubin Collins | 1151 |
| 302 | Mel Utley | 1161 |
| 303 | Bill Butler | 1162 |
| 304 | Jeff Tyson | 1165 |
| 305 | Glen Williams | 1168 |
| 306 | Frank DiLeo | 1181 |
| 307 | Norton Barnhill | 1188 |
| 308 | Joe Hammond (1948) | 1191 |
| 309 | Bill Kunze | 1195 |
| 310 | Gene Mumford | 1206 |
| 311 | Ken Rood | 1210 |
| 312 | Mel Peterson | 1222 |
| 313 | Lynn Greer Sr. | 1225 |
| 314 | Calvin Brown | 1228 |
| 315 | Tom Wieczerak | 1240 |
| 316 | Willie Washington | 1243 |
| 317 | Bobby Rascoe | 1250 |
| 318 | Lew McKinney | 1252 |
| 319 | Oscar Jackson | 1257 |
| 320 | Ray Vyzas | 1272 |
| 321 | Randy Duffin | 1282 |
| 322 | John Novey | 1283 |
| 323 | Mike Lee | 1285 |
| 324 | Andy Broadie | 1292 |
| 325 | Ernie Douse | 1298 |
| 326 | Ronnie Nunn | 1301 |
| 327 | Rick Santos | 1304 |
| 328 | Dave Brownbill | 1308 |
| 329 | Jim Halliburton | 1314 |
| 330 | Dick Grubar | 1320 |
| 331 | John Jones | 1321 |
| 332 | Harry James | 1327 |
| 333 | Willie Brown | 1332 |
| 334 | Hal Jeter | 1338 |
| 335 | Rudy Peele | 1340 |
| 336 | Jerry McKee | 1346 |
| 337 | Tyrone Britt | 1353 |
| 338 | Arnold Dugger | 1376 |
| 339 | Heywood Dotson | 1384 |
| 340 | Pat Flanigan | 1386 |
| 341 | Marvin Johnson | 1388 |
| 342 | Wesley Bialosuknia | 1389 |
| 343 | Ron Krayl | 1399 |
| 344 | Mike Rooney | 1403 |
| 345 | Wally Goodwin | 1404 |
| 346 | Julius McCoy | 1410 |
| 347 | Gregg Morris | 1419 |
| 348 | Tim Hirten | 1421 |
| 349 | Cordell Wise | 1424 |
| 350 | Ray Hodge | 1428 |
| 351 | Bernard Brundridge | 1431 |
| 352 | Willie Griffin | 1434 |
| 353 | Bill Sweek | 1441 |
| 354 | Kim Fisher | 1442 |
| 355 | Dan Gallagher | 1447 |
| 356 | Doug Bloxom | 1448 |
| 357 | Johnny Taylor (1956) | 1449 |
| 358 | Al Murrell | 1451 |
| 359 | Sam Mumaw | 1458 |
| 360 | Ike Cahoe | 1466 |
| 361 | Calvin Graham | 1475 |
| 362 | Carlos Terry | 1477 |
| 363 | Frank Kunze | 1488 |
| 364 | Billy Robinson | 1491 |
| 365 | Al Drummond | 1495 |
| 366 | Joe Castaldi | 1501 |
| 367 | Robert Rigsby | 1502 |
| 368 | Connie White | 1505 |
| 369 | Bob Monroe | 1507 |
| 370 | Art Allen | 1513 |
| 371 | Jeff Briscoe | 1514 |
| 372 | Mike Dabney | 1517 |
| 373 | James Cornelious | 1520 |
| 374 | Bill Endicott | 1524 |
| 375 | Gordon Turner | 1525 |
| 376 | Andy Oliveira | 1526 |
| 377 | Allan Dalton | 1529 |
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