# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anderson-varejao
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:57:07.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anderson-varejao"
name: "Anderson Varejão"
slug: "anderson-varejao"
description: "Anderson França Varejão is a Brazilian former professional basketball player who is currently a Player Development Consultant and Global Ambassador for the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he spent 13 of his 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With a career that spanned four professional leagues, Varejão also played for Franca and the Flamengo of the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB), Barcelona of the EuroLeague and Liga ACB, and has been a regular member of the Brazilian national team, winning a gold medal in 2003 at the Pan American Games."
tagline: "Brazilian basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anderson_Varej%C3%A3o_2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "BR"
category:
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  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1982-09-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.553697221638079
  historical:           21.49528933333334
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  234
  category: 249
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump