# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:32:23.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-watson"
name: "Earl Watson"
slug: "earl-watson"
description: "Earl Joseph Watson Jr. is an American professional basketball coach and former player, who serves as an assistant coach for the San Diego Toreros. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, where he was a four-year starter and named all-conference as a senior in the Pac-10. Watson was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round of the 2001 NBA draft with the 39th overall selection. He played 13 seasons in the NBA with seven teams before becoming a coach in 2014. He was the head coach of the Phoenix Suns from 2016 to 2017."
tagline: "American basketball player (born 1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Earl_Watson_Bulls_vs_Pacers_December_2009.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: "1979-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.88
  momentum:             0.516173434273916
  historical:           15.88968666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump