# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-carter
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:57:30.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-carter"
name: "Don Carter"
slug: "don-carter"
description: "Donald J. Carter was an American investor and businessman who was a founding owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Dallas Sidekicks of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). At the time of his death he was a minority partner in the Mavericks and a familiar courtside presence at the team's home games, always wearing a cowboy hat."
tagline: "American businessman (1933–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_J._Carter%2C_MISL_1984-85_media_guide_page_020.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1933-07-05"
deathDate: "2018-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.87
  momentum:             13.43373493975903
  historical:           5.481714666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Carter_(businessman)"
    title: "Donald Carter (businessman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "دون كارتر (رجل أعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "دون كارتر (اصحاب بيزنيس من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carter_(i%C5%9F_insan%C4%B1)"
    title: "Don Carter (iş insanı)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "دان کارتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carter_(businessman)"
    title: "Don Carter (businessman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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