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The Top Ranked Centers 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 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 1 |
| 2 | Bob McAdoo | 2 |
| 3 | Bob Lanier | 3 |
| 4 | Dave Cowens | 9 |
| 5 | Artis Gilmore | 13 |
| 6 | Dan Issel | 18 |
| 7 | Wilt Chamberlain | 22 |
| 8 | Nate Thurmond | 24 |
| 9 | Mel Daniels | 30 |
| 10 | Sam Lacey | 31 |
| 11 | Moses Malone | 34 |
| 12 | Alvan Adams | 36 |
| 13 | Wes Unseld | 38 |
| 14 | Willis Reed | 39 |
| 15 | Bill Walton | 61 |
| 16 | Billy Paultz | 78 |
| 17 | Elmore Smith | 80 |
| 18 | Walt Bellamy | 89 |
| 19 | Swen Nater | 90 |
| 20 | Caldwell Jones | 92 |
| 21 | Neal Walk | 102 |
| 22 | Zelmo Beaty | 103 |
| 23 | Jim Chones | 114 |
| 24 | Tom Boerwinkle | 116 |
| 25 | Dave Robisch | 120 |
| 26 | Clifford Ray | 137 |
| 27 | Tom Owens | 143 |
| 28 | Jim Eakins | 144 |
| 29 | Leroy Ellis | 152 |
| 30 | Lloyd Neal | 153 |
| 31 | Jim Fox | 155 |
| 32 | Otto Moore | 157 |
| 33 | Rich Kelley | 159 |
| 34 | Randy Denton | 161 |
| 35 | Jack Sikma | 162 |
| 36 | Bob Rule | 165 |
| 37 | Kevin Kunnert | 176 |
| 38 | Zaid Abdul-Aziz | 185 |
| 39 | Mike Lewis | 188 |
| 40 | Byron Beck | 192 |
| 41 | Manny Leaks | 197 |
| 42 | Tom Burleson | 198 |
| 43 | Gene Moore | 202 |
| 44 | Mike Green | 206 |
| 45 | Robert Parish | 209 |
| 46 | Mel Counts | 218 |
| 47 | Walt Wesley | 223 |
| 48 | John Gianelli | 225 |
| 49 | George T. Johnson | 227 |
| 50 | Dale Schlueter | 228 |
| 51 | Dennis Awtrey | 237 |
| 52 | Jim Davis | 241 |
| 53 | Dino Meneghin | 245 |
| 54 | Kresimir Cosic | 248 |
| 55 | James Edwards | 253 |
| 56 | Steve Hawes | 257 |
| 57 | Ira Harge | 274 |
| 58 | Coby Dietrick | 277 |
| 59 | Mychal Thompson | 279 |
| 60 | Lee Davis | 299 |
| 61 | Hank Finkel | 305 |
| 62 | Joe Meriweather | 321 |
| 63 | Steve Patterson | 323 |
| 64 | Len Elmore | 326 |
| 65 | Leon Douglas | 341 |
| 66 | Luther Rackley | 344 |
| 67 | Marvin Webster | 345 |
| 68 | Connie Dierking | 357 |
| 69 | LaRue Martin | 360 |
| 70 | Darrall Imhoff | 364 |
| 71 | Etienne Geerts | 367 |
| 72 | Zeljko Jerkov | 370 |
| 73 | Dick Cunningham | 373 |
| 74 | Darryl Dawkins | 378 |
| 75 | Mike Sojourner | 382 |
| 76 | Kent Benson | 383 |
| 77 | Erwin Mueller | 387 |
| 78 | Pete Cross | 388 |
| 79 | Tree Rollins | 401 |
| 80 | Kim Hughes | 406 |
| 81 | Willie Sojourner | 407 |
| 82 | Bob Christian | 409 |
| 83 | Alexander Belov | 426 |
| 84 | Jim McDaniels | 433 |
| 85 | Massimo Masini | 435 |
| 86 | Alexander Belostenny | 439 |
| 87 | Atanas Golomeev | 441 |
| 88 | Imre Nyitrai | 453 |
| 89 | Petar Skansi | 458 |
| 90 | Vinko Jelovac | 469 |
| 91 | Rickey Robey | 480 |
| 92 | George Wilson | 497 |
| 93 | Harvey Catchings | 505 |
| 94 | Craig Raymond | 506 |
| 95 | Rich Niemann | 507 |
| 96 | David Vaughn | 509 |
| 97 | Roger Brown | 525 |
| 98 | George E. Johnson | 526 |
| 99 | George Peeples | 528 |
| 100 | John Lambert | 537 |
| 101 | Earl Williams | 540 |
| 102 | Tom Black | 553 |
| 103 | Garfield Smith | 556 |
| 104 | Ed Johnson | 569 |
| 105 | Paul Ruffner | 571 |
| 106 | Vladimir Tkachenko | 572 |
| 107 | Al Cueto | 573 |
| 108 | Dave Newmark | 578 |
| 109 | Ratko Radovanovic | 582 |
| 110 | Bayard Forrest | 592 |
| 111 | Scott Lloyd | 595 |
| 112 | Nate Bowman | 618 |
| 113 | Rich Johnson | 625 |
| 114 | Luke Witte | 632 |
| 115 | Bira Maciel | 636 |
| 116 | Tom Riker | 641 |
| 117 | Al Henry | 644 |
| 118 | Jim Barnes | 651 |
| 119 | Dan Anderson | 666 |
| 120 | Len Kosmalski | 669 |
| 121 | Bumper Tormohlen | 670 |
| 122 | Perry Crosswhite | 676 |
| 123 | Mike Ratliff | 678 |
| 124 | Jiri Zidek | 687 |
| 125 | Tom LaGarde | 692 |
| 126 | Tom Payne | 707 |
| 127 | Greg Fillmore | 721 |
| 128 | Skip Thoren | 723 |
| 129 | Wayne Cooper | 728 |
| 130 | Clemon Johnson | 733 |
| 131 | Marquinhos Leite | 737 |
| 132 | Tom Barker | 744 |
| 133 | William Smith | 745 |
| 134 | Bill McGill | 758 |
| 135 | Norbert Thimm | 767 |
| 136 | Steve Downing | 775 |
| 137 | Aulcie Perry | 781 |
| 138 | Rick Darnell | 784 |
| 139 | Eric Fernsten | 786 |
| 140 | Carl Fuller | 789 |
| 141 | Walker Banks | 792 |
| 142 | Bobby Croft | 807 |
| 143 | Lars Hansen | 814 |
| 144 | Roy Ebron | 823 |
| 145 | Vic Bartolome | 824 |
| 146 | Dan Hester | 834 |
| 147 | Al Carlson | 844 |
| 148 | Dave Corzine | 846 |
| 149 | Dana Lewis | 852 |
| 150 | Ronald Taylor | 855 |
| 151 | Chuck Lloyd | 858 |
| 152 | Joe Pace | 869 |
| 153 | Barry Nelson | 884 |
| 154 | Rafael Palomar | 906 |
| 155 | George Sutor | 913 |
| 156 | Bob Elliott | 917 |
| 157 | Gaston Gambor | 924 |
| 158 | Bill Newton | 936 |
| 159 | Willie Davis | 950 |
| 160 | Jerome Whitehead | 985 |
| 161 | Ken Spain | 990 |
| 162 | Mohamad Kamal | 1006 |
| 163 | Geoff Crompton | 1010 |
| 164 | Mike Grosso | 1013 |
| 165 | Ken McKenzie | 1030 |
| 166 | John Smith | 1035 |
| 167 | Vladimir Andrejev | 1039 |
| 168 | Teofilo Cruz | 1073 |
| 169 | Gary Suiter | 1075 |
| 170 | Bob Woollard | 1085 |
| 171 | Chris Wallace | 1103 |
| 172 | Ernest Wansley | 1104 |
| 173 | Aleksandar Belostenny | 1110 |
| 174 | Wayne Cruse | 1122 |
| 175 | Cyril Baptiste | 1124 |
| 176 | Bill Green | 1134 |
| 177 | Bernard Harris | 1139 |
| 178 | Roger Moore | 1140 |
| 179 | Phil Harris | 1144 |
| 180 | Reggie Royals | 1147 |
| 181 | Roland Grant | 1166 |
| 182 | Bill Smothers | 1175 |
| 183 | Bob Hayes | 1176 |
| 184 | Butch Booker | 1183 |
| 185 | Dennis Grey | 1189 |
| 186 | Mel Werts | 1193 |
| 187 | John Richter | 1203 |
| 188 | Hank Holliday | 1208 |
| 189 | Craig Prosser | 1216 |
| 190 | Grover Woodward | 1217 |
| 191 | L.C. Mason | 1224 |
| 192 | Art Stephenson | 1226 |
| 193 | Larry Trautwein | 1239 |
| 194 | Bruce King | 1266 |
| 195 | Al Beard | 1267 |
| 196 | Al Santio | 1275 |
| 197 | Vernon Green | 1278 |
| 198 | Ed Szczesny | 1279 |
| 199 | Charles Mitchell | 1294 |
| 200 | Marty Fricko | 1296 |
| 201 | Marion Hilliard | 1307 |
| 202 | Eric Evans | 1312 |
| 203 | Clint Chapman (1953) | 1316 |
| 204 | Rich Henninger | 1317 |
| 205 | Willie Teague | 1318 |
| 206 | Ron Johnson (1949) | 1329 |
| 207 | Jack Hill | 1335 |
| 208 | Daryl Peterson | 1337 |
| 209 | Joe Newman | 1343 |
| 210 | Mike Buescher | 1350 |
| 211 | Joe Pride | 1351 |
| 212 | Warren Walk | 1354 |
| 213 | Craig Moorer | 1364 |
| 214 | Tom Hoover | 1367 |
| 215 | Tony Rufus | 1371 |
| 216 | Charlie McAllister | 1373 |
| 217 | Steve Niles | 1395 |
| 218 | Garry Nelson | 1397 |
| 219 | Bob Rozyczko | 1408 |
| 220 | Jimmy Connors (1955) | 1414 |
| 221 | John Crawford | 1415 |
| 222 | Tom Lick | 1427 |
| 223 | Ron Eleby | 1429 |
| 224 | Dave Bell | 1453 |
| 225 | Jerry Karwoski | 1461 |
| 226 | Charlie Ross | 1465 |
| 227 | Tom Roy | 1471 |
| 228 | Charles Parnell | 1476 |
| 229 | Willie Smylie | 1481 |
| 230 | Bill Bowes | 1482 |
| 231 | Gary Bowen | 1498 |
| 232 | Dick Voith | 1499 |
| 233 | Joe Finn | 1509 |
| 234 | Lucious Foster | 1511 |
| 235 | Roger Davis | 1518 |
| 236 | Ron Bostick | 1521 |
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