# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donnie-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:38:37.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donnie-nelson"
name: "Donnie Nelson"
slug: "donnie-nelson"
description: "Donn Charles Nelson is an American basketball executive who previously held general manager and president of basketball operations roles for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the son of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Nelson. In a 2007 Sports Illustrated article ranking the NBA's personnel bosses from 1 to 30, Nelson was ranked 2nd. In a 2009 Yahoo Sports article, Nelson was ranked the third-best general manager of the decade after producing nine 50-plus-win seasons in a row and the first finals appearance in franchise history in 2006. Nelson assembled the Mavericks team that would later win the 2011 NBA championship. Having served since 2005, Nelson was the longest-tenured general manager in the NBA at the time of his parting with the Mavericks in 2021."
tagline: "American basketball executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donnie_Nelson_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1962-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.08
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.888606666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Nelson"
    title: "Donnie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دوني نيلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Nelson"
    title: "Donnie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%A0%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "דוני נלסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Nelson"
    title: "Donnie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Nelson"
    title: "Donnie Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357561"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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