# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-motta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:58:12.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-motta"
name: "Dick Motta"
slug: "dick-motta"
description: "John Richard Motta is an American former basketball coach whose career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) spanned 25 years. Motta coached the Washington Bullets to the 1978 NBA Championship, and he won the 1971 NBA Coach of the Year Award with the Chicago Bulls. Motta is eighth all-time with 1,952 games as coach, while ranking 13th in wins and fourth in losses; he has the most wins of eligible coaches not currently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 25 seasons as a coach, he reached the postseason fourteen times."
tagline: "American basketball coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Motta_1971.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1931-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "دیک موتا"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Motta"
    title: "Dick Motta"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump