# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-needham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:36:02.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-needham"
name: "Derek Needham"
slug: "derek-needham"
description: "Derek Ryan Needham is an American-born naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player for Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB. Standing at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), he plays the point guard position. Needham played college basketball for Fairfield University where he was named to the CollegeInsider.com Freshman All-America team in 2010 and was All-MAAC for four straight years between 2010 and 2013. Since 2017, Needham represents the senior Montenegrin national basketball team in international competitions."
tagline: "American and Montenegrin basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Needham_5_Be%C5%9Fikta%C5%9F_TBSL_20241011_(cropped).jpg?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: "1990-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.18
  momentum:             16.76165432875068
  historical:           7.228908000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Needham"
    title: "Derek Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "ديريك نيدام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "ديريك نيدام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Needham"
    title: "Derek Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Needham"
    title: "Derek Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Needham"
    title: "Derek Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Needham"
    title: "Derek Needham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC"
    title: "Дерек Нидам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20892658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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