# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:03:43.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-nelson"
name: "Don Nelson"
slug: "don-nelson"
description: "Donald Arvid Nelson is an American former professional basketball player and head coach. Nelson is second all-time in regular season wins of any coach in NBA history, with 1,335. He coached the Milwaukee Bucks, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Golden State Warriors. After an All-American career at the University of Iowa, Nelson won five NBA championships playing with the Boston Celtics, with his number 19 retired by the franchise in 1978."
tagline: "American former NBA player and head coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Nelson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1940-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.324292004131108
  historical:           18.94956133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Nelson"
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    title: "Don Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Nelson"
    title: "Don Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Nelson"
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    title: "Don Nelson"
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    title: "Don Nelson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump