# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-mcgill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:13:51.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-mcgill"
name: "Bill McGill"
slug: "bill-mcgill"
description: "Bill \"the Hill\" McGill was an American basketball player best known for inventing the jump hook. McGill was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1962 NBA draft out of the University of Utah, with whom he led the NCAA in scoring with 38.8 points per game in the 1961–1962 season."
tagline: "American basketball player (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_McGill_basketball.jpeg?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: "1939-09-16"
deathDate: "2014-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.48650266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "比尔·麦吉尔"
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    title: "Bill McGill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McGill"
    title: "Bill McGill"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McGill"
    title: "Bill McGill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill McGill"
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    title: "Բիլ ՄաքԳիլ"
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    title: "Bill McGill"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump