# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deon-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:16:57.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deon-thomas"
name: "Deon Thomas"
slug: "deon-thomas"
description: "Deon La velle Thomas is an American-Israeli former basketball player. As a high school player, he led his team to the Chicago Public League title, and was named Illinois Mr. Basketball. As a college player at the University of Illinois, he finished his career as the all-time leading scorer in Fighting Illini history. Selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the 28th selection of the 1994 NBA draft, he opted to play professional basketball in Europe and Israel."
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: "1971-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.624588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Деон Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ديون توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ديون توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Дион Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon_Thomas"
    title: "Deon Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon_Thomas"
    title: "Deon Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon_Thomas"
    title: "Deon Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1"
    title: "דיון תומאס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon_Thomas"
    title: "Deon Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deon_Thomas"
    title: "Deon Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Томас, Деон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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