# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-melchionni
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:27:12.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-melchionni"
name: "Gary Melchionni"
slug: "gary-melchionni"
description: "Gary Dennis Melchionni is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and other leagues. He is a former Phoenix Suns guard and a former All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer while he was with the Duke Blue Devils, where he was the first player to captain twice. He is the father of former Duke basketball player Lee Melchionni."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gary_Melchionni_seems_depressed%2C_Duke_Chronicle_1973-09-12.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: "1951-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.673470666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Melchionni"
    title: "Gary Melchionni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "غاري ميلتشيوني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "جارى ميلتشيونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%A0%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E6%A2%85%E5%B0%94%E5%9F%BA%E7%BF%81%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "加里·梅尔基翁尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Melchionni"
    title: "Gary Melchionni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Melchionni"
    title: "Gary Melchionni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3758529"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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