# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/belus-smawley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:00.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/belus-smawley"
name: "Belus Smawley"
slug: "belus-smawley"
description: "Belus Van Smawley was an American basketball player and coach. He formerly held the record for longest game-winning buzzer-beater in NBA history, hitting one from 50 feet on November 25, 1948."
tagline: "American basketball player-coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Belus_Smawley_Bennett_ad_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1918-03-18"
deathDate: "2003-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.60306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "بيلوس سماولى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belus_Smawley"
    title: "Belus Smawley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belus_Smawley"
    title: "Belus Smawley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belus_Smawley"
    title: "Belus Smawley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belus_Smawley"
    title: "Belus Smawley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3637883"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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