# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derrick-gordon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:14:14.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derrick-gordon"
name: "Derrick Gordon"
slug: "derrick-gordon"
description: "Derrick Robert Gordon is an American former professional basketball player. A shooting guard, Gordon attended and played for three universities, originally the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, where in 2014, Gordon became the first men's basketball player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I to come out as gay and play in a game. On March 24, 2015, Gordon announced his intention to transfer to the University of Massachusetts Amherst and continue to play college basketball, after a single season at WKU."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derrick_Gordon_(5443881189).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: "1991-12-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.11
  momentum:             0.8055766201948317
  historical:           4.815696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/flash2gordon"
    handle:    "flash2gordon"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ديريك غوردون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ديريك جوردون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Gordon"
    title: "Derrick Gordon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Gordon"
    title: "Derrick Gordon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%B7%E7%91%9E%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E9%AB%98%E7%99%BB"
    title: "德瑞克·高登"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16466466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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