# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-mcdermott
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:28:08.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-mcdermott"
name: "Bobby McDermott"
slug: "bobby-mcdermott"
description: "Robert Frederick McDermott was an American professional basketball player in the 1930s and 1940s. He was known as an outstanding shooter and has been called \"the greatest long-distance shooter in the history of the game\" by contemporaries. His grandson is businessman Bill McDermott. McDermott was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988."
tagline: "American basketball player (1914–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bobby_McDermott.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: "1914-01-07"
deathDate: "1963-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.005621333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Макдермотт, Бобби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوبي مكديرموت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "بوبى مكديرموت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McDermott"
    title: "Bobby McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McDermott"
    title: "Bobby McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McDermott"
    title: "Bobby McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McDermott"
    title: "Bobby McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McDermott"
    title: "Bobby McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McDermott"
    title: "Bobby McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McDermott"
    title: "Bobby McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q378872"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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