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The Top Ranked Centers of the 1980s
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 | Moses Malone | 4 |
| 2 | Hakeem Olajuwon | 8 |
| 3 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 12 |
| 4 | Jack Sikma | 18 |
| 5 | Ralph Sampson | 21 |
| 6 | Jeff Ruland | 27 |
| 7 | Joe Barry Carroll | 29 |
| 8 | Dan Issel | 33 |
| 9 | Robert Parish | 35 |
| 10 | Patrick Ewing | 38 |
| 11 | Bill Laimbeer | 46 |
| 12 | Artis Gilmore | 47 |
| 13 | Mychal Thompson | 54 |
| 14 | Brad Daugherty | 55 |
| 15 | Mark Eaton | 58 |
| 16 | Bill Cartwright | 70 |
| 17 | Herb Williams | 73 |
| 18 | Alvan Adams | 80 |
| 19 | Bob Lanier | 87 |
| 20 | Mike Gminski | 91 |
| 21 | Steve Johnson | 111 |
| 22 | Benoit Benjamin | 112 |
| 23 | James Edwards | 113 |
| 24 | Caldwell Jones | 117 |
| 25 | Steve Stipanovich | 118 |
| 26 | James Donaldson | 123 |
| 27 | LaSalle Thompson | 125 |
| 28 | Darryl Dawkins | 126 |
| 29 | Tree Rollins | 134 |
| 30 | Rick Mahorn | 144 |
| 31 | Dave Corzine | 146 |
| 32 | Kevin Duckworth | 156 |
| 33 | Wayne Cooper | 163 |
| 34 | Alton Lister | 168 |
| 35 | Dave Cowens | 169 |
| 36 | Danny Schayes | 179 |
| 37 | Wes Unseld | 183 |
| 38 | Tim McCormick | 203 |
| 39 | Kent Benson | 205 |
| 40 | Rich Kelley | 213 |
| 41 | Swen Nater | 215 |
| 42 | George T. Johnson | 216 |
| 43 | Arvydas Sabonis | 224 |
| 44 | Clemon Johnson | 225 |
| 45 | Jeff Wilkins | 229 |
| 46 | Jerome Whitehead | 231 |
| 47 | Tom Owens | 232 |
| 48 | Kurt Nimphius | 242 |
| 49 | Dino Meneghin | 245 |
| 50 | Randy Breuer | 246 |
| 51 | Juan Domingo de la Cruz | 248 |
| 52 | Mel Turpin | 255 |
| 53 | Manute Bol | 259 |
| 54 | Efe Aydan | 267 |
| 55 | Steve Hawes | 270 |
| 56 | Joe Meriweather | 273 |
| 57 | Sam Lacey | 277 |
| 58 | Joe Kleine | 291 |
| 59 | Dave Robisch | 295 |
| 60 | Mark West | 297 |
| 61 | Bill Walton | 305 |
| 62 | Rickey Robey | 306 |
| 63 | Roy Tarpley | 309 |
| 64 | Jim Chones | 311 |
| 65 | Blair Rasmussen | 312 |
| 66 | Bob McAdoo | 324 |
| 67 | Klaus Zander | 328 |
| 68 | Stojko Vrankovic | 330 |
| 69 | Billy Paultz | 332 |
| 70 | Vlade Divac | 335 |
| 71 | Rik Smits | 339 |
| 72 | Marvin Webster | 341 |
| 73 | Harvey Catchings | 342 |
| 74 | Bill Garnett | 348 |
| 75 | Brad Sellers | 352 |
| 76 | Jon Koncak | 355 |
| 77 | Paul Mokeski | 364 |
| 78 | Tom LaGarde | 380 |
| 79 | Len Elmore | 386 |
| 80 | Rony Seikaly | 389 |
| 81 | Leon Douglas | 399 |
| 82 | Coby Dietrick | 416 |
| 83 | Sam Bowie | 419 |
| 84 | Rickey Brown | 421 |
| 85 | Ben Coleman | 432 |
| 86 | Jawann Oldham | 434 |
| 87 | Vladimir Tkachenko | 449 |
| 88 | Scott Lloyd | 457 |
| 89 | Clifford Ray | 459 |
| 90 | Charles A. Jones | 461 |
| 91 | Greg Kite | 462 |
| 92 | Stuart Gray | 470 |
| 93 | John Lambert | 488 |
| 94 | Dave Feitl | 498 |
| 95 | Petur Gudmundsson | 501 |
| 96 | Granville Waiters | 502 |
| 97 | Mark McNamara | 503 |
| 98 | Bill Wennington | 510 |
| 99 | Audie Norris | 511 |
| 100 | Mike Brown | 515 |
| 101 | Mike Harper | 520 |
| 102 | Steve Hayes | 524 |
| 103 | Fernando Martin | 533 |
| 104 | Eric Fernsten | 538 |
| 105 | Kim Hughes | 546 |
| 106 | Uwe Blab | 548 |
| 107 | Chris Engler | 555 |
| 108 | Olden Polynice | 561 |
| 109 | Chuck Aleksinas | 562 |
| 110 | Kevin Kunnert | 563 |
| 111 | Chuck Nevitt | 575 |
| 112 | Mark Acres | 577 |
| 113 | Geoff Crompton | 582 |
| 114 | Brad Branson | 587 |
| 115 | Israel Andrade | 591 |
| 116 | Dennis Awtrey | 594 |
| 117 | Mario Butler | 597 |
| 118 | Joe Cooper | 600 |
| 119 | Wallace Bryant | 601 |
| 120 | Christian Welp | 604 |
| 121 | Marquinhos Leite | 610 |
| 122 | Ozell Jones | 611 |
| 123 | Ratko Radovanovic | 614 |
| 124 | Darren Tillis | 620 |
| 125 | Chris Dudley | 626 |
| 126 | Jerome Henderson | 636 |
| 127 | William Bedford | 645 |
| 128 | Tom Burleson | 650 |
| 129 | Eric Leckner | 672 |
| 130 | Greg Dreiling | 675 |
| 131 | David Robinson | 678 |
| 132 | Jim Lampley | 679 |
| 133 | Dave Hoppen | 680 |
| 134 | Nick Vanos | 687 |
| 135 | Chris Washburn | 701 |
| 136 | Wang Libin | 709 |
| 137 | Gerald Kazanowski | 712 |
| 138 | Hebert Nunez | 721 |
| 139 | Greg Wiltjer | 726 |
| 140 | Andrew Lang | 731 |
| 141 | Birejma Diagne | 732 |
| 142 | Ron Cavenall | 736 |
| 143 | Ray Borner | 744 |
| 144 | Dave Batton | 745 |
| 145 | Paulinho Villas | 771 |
| 146 | John Gianelli | 781 |
| 147 | Felix Morales | 800 |
| 148 | Sylvester Norris | 803 |
| 149 | Carl Bailey | 818 |
| 150 | Luis Pierri | 855 |
| 151 | Stan Hill | 858 |
| 152 | Martin Nessley | 872 |
| 153 | Tom Scheffler | 874 |
| 154 | Arvid Kramer | 876 |
| 155 | Ralph Drollinger | 880 |
| 156 | Brett Vroman | 885 |
| 157 | John Shasky | 894 |
| 158 | Roger Brown | 899 |
| 159 | Earl Jones | 902 |
| 160 | Carl Kilpatrick | 911 |
| 161 | Edmund Lawrence | 926 |
| 162 | Tom Piotrowski | 964 |
| 163 | Phil Zevenbergen | 977 |
| 164 | Jim Zoet | 991 |
| 165 | Marvin Alexander | 993 |
| 166 | Ron Moore | 994 |
| 167 | Ron Crevier | 996 |
| 168 | Bruce King | 997 |
| 169 | Rock Lee | 1002 |
| 170 | Mike Brittain | 1003 |
| 171 | Jack Haley | 1013 |
| 172 | Darrell Lockhart | 1018 |
| 173 | T.J. Robinson | 1020 |
| 174 | Yvon Joseph | 1038 |
| 175 | Will Perdue | 1060 |
| 176 | Jim Johnstone | 1061 |
| 177 | Tod Murphy | 1062 |
| 178 | Zeljko Jerkov | 1071 |
| 179 | Mike Green | 1072 |
| 180 | Greg Butler | 1080 |
| 181 | Richard Johnson | 1082 |
| 182 | Dan Ruland | 1083 |
| 183 | Tito Horford | 1091 |
| 184 | Terry White | 1097 |
| 185 | Alan Taylor | 1100 |
| 186 | Song Tao | 1103 |
| 187 | Ben Gillery | 1106 |
| 188 | Rolando Ferreira | 1122 |
| 189 | Alton Lee Gipson | 1125 |
| 190 | Tony Martin | 1130 |
| 191 | Mike Hackett | 1140 |
| 192 | Russell Cross | 1143 |
| 193 | Mike Clark | 1146 |
| 194 | Bill Nelson | 1158 |
| 195 | Greg Grissom | 1159 |
| 196 | Steve Woodside | 1168 |
| 197 | Kirk Richards | 1176 |
| 198 | Korky Nelson | 1177 |
| 199 | Paul Brozovich | 1178 |
| 200 | Les Craft | 1198 |
| 201 | Lloyd Terry | 1202 |
| 202 | Lewis Brown | 1203 |
| 203 | Mike Richmond | 1205 |
| 204 | Ken Jones | 1207 |
| 205 | John Wiley | 1211 |
| 206 | Irv Chatman | 1213 |
| 207 | Mike Schultz | 1214 |
| 208 | Cedric Jenkins | 1229 |
| 209 | Cyrus Mann | 1230 |
| 210 | Dan Federman | 1231 |
| 211 | James Woods | 1236 |
| 212 | Don Johnson | 1240 |
| 213 | James Terry | 1254 |
| 214 | Rodney Blake | 1255 |
| 215 | Gib Hinz | 1263 |
| 216 | Carl McPipe | 1265 |
| 217 | Stark Langs | 1276 |
| 218 | Dedrick Reffigee | 1277 |
| 219 | Carl Mitchell (So MS) | 1287 |
| 220 | Tim Ruff | 1292 |
| 221 | Dennis Palmer | 1294 |
| 222 | Glenn Sudhop | 1297 |
| 223 | Pete DeBisschop | 1322 |
| 224 | Merlin Wilson | 1326 |
| 225 | Dave Wear | 1330 |
| 226 | Tom Payne | 1339 |
| 227 | Stuart House | 1340 |
| 228 | Mike Buescher | 1343 |
| 229 | Tony Karasek | 1349 |
| 230 | Al Henry | 1359 |
| 231 | Norm Kelly | 1366 |
| 232 | Melvin Baltimore | 1368 |
| 233 | Tony Rufus | 1373 |
| 234 | Ralph Brewster | 1374 |
| 235 | Norm Anchrum | 1378 |
| 236 | Derrick Polk | 1384 |
| 237 | Tom Gneiting | 1403 |
| 238 | Lester Fonville | 1416 |
| 239 | Kenny Perry | 1417 |
| 240 | Wally West | 1420 |
| 241 | Tony Papa | 1424 |
| 242 | Clint Chapman (1953) | 1427 |
| 243 | Willie Smylie | 1429 |
| 244 | Allen Rayhorn | 1431 |
| 245 | Micah Blunt | 1437 |
| 246 | Dave Richardson | 1439 |
| 247 | Ken Lee | 1445 |
| 248 | Ken Roper | 1447 |
| 249 | Howard Levy | 1449 |
| 250 | Reggie Hannah | 1450 |
| 251 | John Copeland | 1454 |
| 252 | Willie Redden | 1455 |
| 253 | Tracy Ballard | 1459 |
| 254 | Kevin Sprewer | 1470 |
| 255 | Bernard Innocent | 1472 |
| 256 | Robert Armstrong | 1475 |
| 257 | Chuck Everson | 1483 |
| 258 | Chris Burke | 1488 |
| 259 | John Horrocks | 1491 |
| 260 | Brian Christensen | 1495 |
| 261 | Bruce Vanley | 1496 |
| 262 | Shawn Campbell | 1501 |
| 263 | Harold Johnson (1954) | 1504 |
| 264 | Otis Jennings | 1508 |
| 265 | Dorian Dent | 1520 |
| 266 | Clayton Olivier | 1524 |
| 267 | Tom Heywood | 1535 |
| 268 | Tim Harvey | 1542 |
| 269 | Leo Cunningham | 1549 |
| 270 | Mel Werts | 1563 |
| 271 | Dave Williams (1960) | 1565 |
| 272 | Lawrence McCray | 1569 |
| 273 | Mike Kanieski | 1574 |
| 274 | Stanley Lawrence | 1593 |
| 275 | Jeff Arnold | 1600 |
| 276 | Eddie Geiger | 1604 |
| 277 | Steve Ballard | 1608 |
| 278 | Derek Sailors | 1612 |
| 279 | Kevin Rogers (1958) | 1622 |
| 280 | Blake Wortham | 1624 |
| 281 | Ricky Tunstall | 1632 |
| 282 | Robert Paige | 1633 |
| 283 | Mark Farmer | 1636 |
| 284 | Albert Butts | 1650 |
| 285 | Chris Hardin | 1652 |
| 286 | Antonio Martin | 1662 |
| 287 | Freddie Bryant | 1667 |
| 288 | Steve Bontrager | 1671 |
| 289 | Terry Williams | 1672 |
| 290 | Eric Evans | 1680 |
| 291 | Rob Cornegy | 1687 |
| 292 | Keith Jackson | 1689 |
| 293 | Ernie Floyd | 1692 |
| 294 | Tom Curry | 1700 |
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