# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dragan-bender
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:23:17.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dragan-bender"
name: "Dragan Bender"
slug: "dragan-bender"
description: "Dragan Bender is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He stands 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) and played the power forward and center positions. He was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the fourth overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft but only played four years in the league. Bender represents the Croatian national team, with experience in the FIBA Europe junior tournaments. Before playing in Israel, he competed with multiple teams in Croatia and in Nikola Vujčić's academy."
tagline: "Croatian basketball player (born 1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maccabi_Tel_Aviv_vs_Hapoel_Jerusalem%2C_25_October%2C_2015_(7)_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1997-11-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.2
  momentum:             15
  historical:           18.809304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DBender03"
    handle:    "DBender03"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ντράγκαν Μπέντερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dragan Bender"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dragan Bender"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dragan Bender"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dragan Bender"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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