# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-gaines
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:50:05.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-gaines"
name: "Charles Gaines"
slug: "charles-gaines"
description: "Charles Wayne Gaines is an American former professional basketball player. He played high school basketball in his native city of Houston, and he spent two years at Southwest Missouri State in the MVC before transferring to Southern Miss, where he played his two remaining years of college basketball eligibility. After going undrafted in the 2004 NBA draft, he started his professional career in the Continental Basketball Association with the Michigan Mayhem, leading the league in rebounding. After several years in Europe, one year in the NBA D-League and one in Israel, Gaines moved to the Chinese Basketball Association. While in China he earned an All-Star selection, was the 2011 scoring champion, and he twice led the league in rebounding."
tagline: "American basketball player"
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: "1981-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.82
  momentum:             3.714285714285715
  historical:           6.338517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gaines"
    title: "Charles Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلز جاينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gaines"
    title: "Charles Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gaines_(basketball)"
    title: "Charles Gaines (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gaines"
    title: "Charles Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gaines"
    title: "Charles Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1"
    title: "צ'ארלס גיינס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2898477"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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