# Dwight Jones

> Dwight Elmo Jones was an American professional basketball player. A 6'10" forward/center, he was the leading scorer and rebounder on the 1972 Olympic team that lost the controversial gold medal game to the Soviet Union. Jones was ejected from the gold medal game after an altercation with a Soviet player. Later it was revealed that the Soviets intentionally provoked him as they saw him as the leader of the U.S. team and wanted to get him out.

*American basketball player (1952-2016)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/dwight-jones

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Basketball Player ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646))
- **Category:** Basketball Players
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1952-02-27
- **Died:** 2016-07-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 46.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.6 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 12.4 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
- [德怀特·琼斯](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%B7%E6%80%80%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E7%90%BC%E6%96%AF)
- [دوايت جونز (كرة سلة)](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9))
- [دوايت جونز](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2)
- [Dwight Jones (basketball)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones_(basketball))
- [Dwight Jones](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones)
- [دوایت جونز (بازیکن بسکتبال)](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84))
- [Dwight Jones](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones)
- [Dwight Jones](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones)
- [Dwight Jones (cestista 1952)](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones_(cestista_1952))
- [Dwight Jones](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones)
- [Dwight Jones](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones)
- [Джонс, Дуайт](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82)
- [Dwight Jones](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones)
- [Дуайт Джонс (баскетболіст)](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81_(%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2415540)

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