# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-kok
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:01:54.138Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-kok"
name: "George Kok"
slug: "george-kok"
description: "George William Kok Sr. was an American basketball player. At the University of Arkansas in the 1940s, he was one of the first true big men to dominate the game. He was the second overall pick in the 1948 BAA draft, but never played in the league that was the predecessor of today's National Basketball Association."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Kok.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: "1922-03-18"
deathDate: "2013-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.21
  momentum:             2.527472527472527
  historical:           5.670770666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kok"
    title: "George Kok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "جورج كوك (لاعب كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87)"
    title: "جورج كوك (لاعب كرة السله)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kok"
    title: "George Kok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kok"
    title: "George Kok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kok"
    title: "George Kok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5541404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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