# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-buntin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:28:27.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-buntin"
name: "Bill Buntin"
slug: "bill-buntin"
description: "William L. Buntin was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines. Buntin died of a heart attack at age 26."
tagline: "American basketball player (1942–1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Buntin.png?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: "1942-05-05"
deathDate: "1968-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.42
  momentum:             14.14285714285714
  historical:           5.679446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Buntin"
    title: "Bill Buntin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيل بانتين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيل بانتين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E6%81%A9%E6%B1%80"
    title: "比尔·布恩汀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Buntin"
    title: "Bill Buntin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Buntin"
    title: "Bill Buntin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3639956"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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