# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dee-gibson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:35:20.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dee-gibson"
name: "Dee Gibson"
slug: "dee-gibson"
description: "Robert Dee Gibson Jr. was an American professional basketball player. He was selected in the 1948 BAA Draft by the Minneapolis Lakers. Gibson began his career for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in the National Basketball League (NBL) in the 1948–49 season and stayed with the team when the NBL became the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the 1949–50 season. He then played in the short-lived National Professional Basketball League in 1950–51 for the Louisville Alumnites. He played in college for Western Kentucky University."
tagline: "American basketball player (1923–2003)"
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: "1923-08-25"
deathDate: "2003-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.67
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           5.668610666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Gibson"
    title: "Dee Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دي جيبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دى جيبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%AA%C2%B7%E5%90%89%E5%B8%83%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "迪·吉布森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Gibson"
    title: "Dee Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Gibson"
    title: "Dee Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q941813"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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