# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/angelo-cruz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:36:09.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/angelo-cruz"
name: "Angelo Cruz"
slug: "angelo-cruz"
description: "Angelo \"Monchito\" Cruz is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player. He was born in New York. Coming out of the Patterson Projects in the Bronx, \"Monchito\" was a New York City Playground legend by the time he finished High School at DeWitt Clinton High School; he first played 2 or 3 years at All Hallows High School, both in the Bronx. After playing at Bethany Nazarene College (Oklahoma) and Essex County College, he moved on to play professionally in Puerto Rico."
tagline: "Puerto Rican basketball player"
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: "1958-09-20"
deathDate: "1993"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.551477333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Cruz"
    title: "Ángel Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "أنجيلو كروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "انجيلو كروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Cruz"
    title: "Angelo Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Cruz"
    title: "Angelo Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%88_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "انجلو کروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Cruz"
    title: "Ángel Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940670"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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