# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gene-melchiorre
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:56:11.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gene-melchiorre"
name: "Gene Melchiorre"
slug: "gene-melchiorre"
description: "Eugene \"Squeaky\" Melchiorre was an American basketball player. A point guard, he was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets and was the first overall pick in the 1951 NBA draft. Melchiorre never played an NBA game due to his lifetime ban from the league for point shaving when he was a college player."
tagline: "American basketball player (1927–2019)"
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: "1927-08-10"
deathDate: "2019-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.36
  momentum:             1.333333333333333
  historical:           8.960261333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Мельхиорр, Джин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "جين ملكيوري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "جين ملكيورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Melchiorre"
    title: "Eugene Melchiorre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Melchiorre"
    title: "Gene Melchiorre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Melchiorre"
    title: "Gene Melchiorre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Melchiorre"
    title: "Gene Melchiorre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Melchiorre"
    title: "Gene Melchiorre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Melchiorre"
    title: "Gene Melchiorre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Melchiorre"
    title: "Gene Melchiorre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2057641"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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