# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arvydas-sabonis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:26:40.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arvydas-sabonis"
name: "Arvydas Sabonis"
slug: "arvydas-sabonis"
description: "Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and businessman. Sabonis won the Euroscar six times and the Mr. Europa Award twice. He played in a variety of leagues, including the Spanish ACB League, and spent seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Playing the center position, Sabonis won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in South Korea, for the Soviet Union, and later earned bronze medals at the 1992 Olympic Games and 1996 Olympic Games representing Lithuania. He retired from professional basketball in 2005. Sabonis was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the 1986 NBA draft, but he did not play his first NBA game until 1995, at the age of 30."
tagline: "Lithuanian basketball player and executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arvydas_Sabonis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1964-12-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           23.283868
  currentAttention:     12.56
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 85
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill