# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/butch-van-breda-kolff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:16:59.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/butch-van-breda-kolff"
name: "Butch van Breda Kolff"
slug: "butch-van-breda-kolff"
description: "Willem Hendrik \"Butch\" van Breda Kolff was an American basketball player and coach. He played four seasons for the New York Knicks before becoming a head coach at Lafayette. Ultimately, \nhe coached for eleven different teams in five classifications. He reached the NCAA Final Four and two NBA Finals while winning a championship in four different conferences."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach (1922–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Butch_van_Breda_Kolff_1968.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: "1922-10-28"
deathDate: "2007-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.83
  momentum:             7.191502872878925
  historical:           9.007349333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "巴奇·范布雷德·考尔夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوتش فان بريدا كولف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوتش فان بريدا كولف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_van_Breda_Kolff"
    title: "Butch van Breda Kolff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_van_Breda_Kolff"
    title: "Butch van Breda Kolff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_van_Breda_Kolff"
    title: "Butch van Breda Kolff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A5'_%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A3"
    title: "בוץ' ואן ברדה קוף"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_van_Breda_Kolff"
    title: "Butch van Breda Kolff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_van_Breda_Kolff"
    title: "Butch van Breda Kolff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_van_Breda_Kolff"
    title: "Butch van Breda Kolff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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