# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-tucker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:21:10.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-tucker"
name: "Al Tucker"
slug: "al-tucker"
description: "Albert Ames Tucker Jr. was an American professional basketball player. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Tucker is sometimes credited with inventing the alley-oop with his brother Gerald while at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma."
tagline: "American basketball player (1943–2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1943-02-24"
deathDate: "2001-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.21
  momentum:             5.487804878048781
  historical:           9.147049333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB"
    title: "Такер, Эл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "آل تاكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "آل تاكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Tucker"
    title: "Al Tucker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Tucker"
    title: "Al Tucker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "آل تاکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Tucker"
    title: "Al Tucker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%98%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A8"
    title: "אל טאקר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Tucker"
    title: "Al Tucker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Tucker"
    title: "Al Tucker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1463113"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump