# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/calvin-murphy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:05:00.830Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/calvin-murphy"
name: "Calvin Murphy"
slug: "calvin-murphy"
description: "Calvin Jerome Murphy is an American former professional basketball player who after a prolific collegiate career at Niagara University, where he averaged 33.1 points per game over his three years, played in the National Basketball Association as a guard for the San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983. He is currently a member of the Houston Rockets' Space City Home Network broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Calvin_Murphy_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1948-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.29
  momentum:             1.746109545398848
  historical:           15.61176266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1736992/"
    handle:    "nm1736992"
sources:
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    title: "Calvin Murphy"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Murphy"
    title: "Calvin Murphy"
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    title: "Calvin Murphy"
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    title: "Քելվին Մերֆի"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3956392"
    title: "Calvin Murphy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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