# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernie-grunfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:34:40.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernie-grunfeld"
name: "Ernie Grunfeld"
slug: "ernie-grunfeld"
description: "Ernest Grunfeld is a Romanian-American former professional basketball player and former general manager in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In college at the University of Tennessee, he set a new record as the school's all-time leading scorer. He won gold medals with Team USA at the 1975 Pan American Games and the 1976 Summer Olympics. He began his professional career as a player with the Milwaukee Bucks. He served as General Manager of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association from 1989 to 1999, and as the Bucks General Manager from 1999 to 2003, and then became the president of basketball operations for the Washington Wizards from 2003 to 2019."
tagline: "American basketball player and executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernie_Grunfeld_(cropped).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: "1955-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.55
  momentum:             31.95030389703253
  historical:           14.970676
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 187
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%84%E5%B0%BC%C2%B7%E6%A0%BC%E4%BC%A6%E8%B4%B9%E5%B0%94%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "厄尼·格伦费尔德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "إيرني غرونفيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ايرنى جرونفيلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernest Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%81%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ارنی گرونفلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%93"
    title: "ארני גרונפלד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernest Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Грюнфельд, Эрни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Grunfeld"
    title: "Ernie Grunfeld"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96_%D2%90%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4"
    title: "Ерні Ґрюнфелд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2565934"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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