# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dwight-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:03:54.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dwight-jones"
name: "Dwight Jones"
slug: "dwight-jones"
description: "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."
tagline: "American basketball player (1952-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dwight_Jones_basketball.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1952-02-27"
deathDate: "2016-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.74
  momentum:             0.6249999999999999
  historical:           12.4279
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "德怀特·琼斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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)"
    title: "دوايت جونز (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "دوايت جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones_(basketball)"
    title: "Dwight Jones (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones"
    title: "Dwight Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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)"
    title: "دوایت جونز (بازیکن بسکتبال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones"
    title: "Dwight Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones"
    title: "Dwight Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones_(cestista_1952)"
    title: "Dwight Jones (cestista 1952)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones"
    title: "Dwight Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones"
    title: "Dwight Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "Джонс, Дуайт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Jones"
    title: "Dwight Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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)"
    title: "Дуайт Джонс (баскетболіст)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2415540"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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