# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clifford-luyk
# Generated: 2026-09-05T01:06:24.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clifford-luyk"
name: "Clifford Luyk"
slug: "clifford-luyk"
description: "Clifford \"Cliff\" Luyk Diem is an American-born Spanish retired professional basketball player and coach, who played professionally in Spain and Europe from 1962 to 1978. He played college basketball for the University of Florida. He was drafted by the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), but never played a regular season game in the NBA. He signed with the Spanish professional team Real Madrid, helped Real Madrid become the dominant European basketball team of the 1960s, and is remembered for his trademark, old-school hook shot."
tagline: "American-born Spanish basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Clifford_Luyk_c1973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1941-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.37887333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Луйк, Клиффорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كليفورد لويك"
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    title: "كليفورد لويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Clifford Luyk"
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  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%AF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%B9%CE%BA"
    title: "Κλίφορντ Λούικ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Clifford Luyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Clifford Luyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "کلیفورد لویک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Luyk"
    title: "Clifford Luyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Luyk"
    title: "Clifford Luyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "קליפורד לויק"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Luyk"
    title: "Clifford Luyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Luyk"
    title: "Clifford Luyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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