# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-ratleff
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:21:46.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-ratleff"
name: "Ed Ratleff"
slug: "ed-ratleff"
description: "William Edward \"Easy Ed\" Ratleff is an American former professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended East High School where he led his high school basketball team to the Ohio State Championship in 1968 and was joined by Bo Lamar to claim the 1969 Ohio High School title. Ratleff played college basketball for the Long Beach State 49ers, earning consensus first-team All-American honors twice. He was chosen for the 1972 U.S. Olympic team and participated in the Munich Games. He was selected with the sixth overall pick of the 1973 NBA draft and played five NBA seasons."
tagline: "American basketball player (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Ratleff_Long_Beach.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: "1950-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.339416058394161
  historical:           11.55964933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Ratleff"
    title: "Ed Ratleff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Ratleff"
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    title: "اد راتلف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Ratleff"
    title: "Ed Ratleff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Ratleff"
    title: "Ed Ratleff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ed Ratleff"
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    title: "Ед Ратлефф"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump