# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-simmons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:08:20.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-simmons"
name: "Dave Simmons"
slug: "dave-simmons"
description: "David Simmons is an American-Australian former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He was named an NBL All-Star and won an NBL championship with the Melbourne Tigers, who retired his No. 25. He also had a two-year coaching stint with the Hunter Pirates. Simmons is the father of National Basketball Association (NBA) player Ben Simmons."
tagline: "American/Australian basketball player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1963-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.99
  momentum:             3.733446396997798
  historical:           2.482224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "ديف سيمونز (لاعب كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Simmons_(basketball%2C_born_1963)"
    title: "Dave Simmons (basketball, born 1963)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18640525"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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