Best Rebounder At Every Position

[mdonnelly1989]

PG: Magic
SG: MJ
SF: Elgin Baylor
PF: Dennis Rodman
C: Wilt Chamberlain

H/M

PG: Russ
SG: Clyde
SF: Larry Bird
PF: Charles Barkley
C: Bill Russell

[LockoutSeason]

PG: Oscar
SG: Josh Hart
SF: Bird
PF: Rodman
C: Wilt

[Roscoe Sheed]

an underrated point guard rebounder was Fat Lever

[Stan]

Curry is a surprisingly good rebounder for his size.

[kartexpert]

Magic and Russ over Oscar and Luka at PG? Hmm, okay.

[Roger Murdock]

Offhand…

PG: Westbrook, Kidd, Magic
SG: Hart
SF: Marion,
PF: Reggie Evans, Dennis Rodman
C: Jokic, Big Ben

[dhsilv2]

Just gonna put it out there. Moses needs more love as a rebounder. Maybe the best offensive rebounder ever.

[UcanUwill]

Offhand…

PG: Westbrook, Kidd, Magic
SG: Hart
SF: Marion,
PF: Reggie Evans, Dennis Rodman
C: Jokic, Big Ben

Reggie Evans is a good pull. And not too long ago, he trully was a PF in the NBA, can you imagine having guy like that at PF nowadays?
Not sure Jokic and Big ben are best rebounding centers tho.

[UcanUwill]

Just gonna put it out there. Moses needs more love as a rebounder. Maybe the best offensive rebounder ever.

He is in the conversation, his defensive rebounding numbers could be better. Some of the best offensive rebounding centers were bad defensive rebounders interestingly enough, always think of guys like Pekovic and Sofoklis as guys of that phenomena.

[dhsilv2]

Just gonna put it out there. Moses needs more love as a rebounder. Maybe the best offensive rebounder ever.

He is in the conversation, his defensive rebounding numbers could be better. Some of the best offensive rebounding centers were bad defensive rebounders interestingly enough, always think of guys like Pekovic and Sofoklis as guys of that phenomena.

I can't comment on you keyboard spam made up names But yeah Moses should be talked about.

[LuDux1]

Best rebounding team last season according to B-R TRB%:
Sabonis, Valanciunas
Giannis, Mobley
Amen Thompson, Avdija
Hart, Podziemski
Giddey, Doncic

[Luke]

Shooting Guards : If you go by average you have Tom Gola 1st , than Jerry Sloan, Josh Hart, MJ, Drexler, Tmac, Ramsey, Kobe

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/highest-career-average-rebounds-per-game-by-a-shooting-guard

If you go by all time total boards for a SG, Kobe is the all time leader.

[knicksfan974]

Josh Hart has to be in there. Dude is at most 6'4 and still was able to average 9.6rpg on 77 regular season games played last year.

[Optms]

Offhand…

PG: Westbrook, Kidd, Magic
SG: Hart
SF: Marion,
PF: Reggie Evans, Dennis Rodman
C: Jokic, Big Ben

Reggie Evans is a good pull. And not too long ago, he trully was a PF in the NBA, can you imagine having guy like that at PF nowadays?
Not sure Jokic and Big ben are best rebounding centers tho.

They aren't. Big Ben averaged 15 for an entire season so he deserves a mention. But other actual dominant rebounders like Dwight, Shaq, Kareem, Moses, Drummond, Russell, etc. All deserve mentions over Jokic. Probably forgetting several other guys as well.

Kevin Love is also someone I'd slot at PF.

[FreeBird23]

I have always been impressed with Josh Hart.

[Infinite Llamas]

Bob Sura turned into Oscar on the glass when he was traded to the Hawks

[Bad Bart]

How is Russ not number 1 at point guard? Is there something I'm missing?

Also, I know they're not all time greats, but I think Drummond and DeAndre Jordan deserve mention at center.

[Stan]

Bob Sura turned into Oscar on the glass when he was traded to the Hawks

That's literally one of the craziest stats I've ever seen. He was a career 3 rpg player who jumped to over 8 a game when he joined Hawks, including 2.5 offensive rebounds a game. In the previous 2.5 years he failed to crack double digit rebounds a single time, after joining the Hawks he proceeded to do so 11 times in 27 games.

[MarcusBrody]

Shooting Guards : If you go by average you have Tom Gola 1st , than Jerry Sloan, Josh Hart, MJ, Drexler, Tmac, Ramsey, Kobe

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/highest-career-average-rebounds-per-game-by-a-shooting-guard

If you go by all time total boards for a SG, Kobe is the all time leader.

I think that Sloan has a really good shout for best SG rebounder. He has a higher average and a higher TRB% than Michael, though they only have the latter measure halfway through Sloan's career. I'd take Sloan over Gola statswise as in terms of comparing eras, Gola wasn't that old at the beginning of Sloan's career, but Sloan averaged more rebounds when they were playing at the same time (save Sloan's rookie year).

But Jordan was a legitimately good rebounder and isn't much behind Sloan's numbers.

[Doctor MJ]

So I'll answer by pointing to Play-by-Play based data - which only takes us back to '96-97, and thus isn't meant as an all-time answer.

Based on the studies done by nbarapm, here are the top 4-year study peaks by offense & defense respectively and split by consensus position designation in the span:

Offensive Rebounding:
C - Steven Adams
PF - Zach Randolph
SF - Al-Farouq Aminu
SG - Tony Allen
PG - Russell Westbrook

Defensive Rebounding:
C - Nikola Jokic
PF - Kevin Love
SF - Kawhi Leonard
SG - Vince Carter
PG - Chris Paul

Note that stats aside I distinguish between offensive & defensive rebounding as in practice two distinct skillsets. There's overlap to be sure, but generally offensive rebounding impact is about board-crashing whereas defensive rebounding impact is about team paint control. Hence why, despite the fact most of Westbrook's rebounds ere defensive, that's not where his rebounding impact was. Rather, the justification for Westbrook getting defensive rebounds - presuming there is one other than stat-padding - was about getting the ball immediately in the hands of the floor general so he could develop the break.