# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:22:05.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-thompson"
name: "David Thompson"
slug: "david-thompson"
description: "David O'Neil Thompson, commonly known by the nickname \"Skywalker\", is an American former professional basketball player. He played with the Denver Nuggets of both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA before drug problems cut short his career. He was previously a star in college for North Carolina State, leading the Wolfpack to its first NCAA championship in 1974. Thompson is one of the eleven players to score 70 or more points in an NBA game. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996."
tagline: "American professional basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Thompson_and_Julius_Erving.jpeg?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: "1954-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.841463414634148
  historical:           19.08864933333334
  currentAttention:     15.72
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Thompson (basketbolcu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718669"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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