# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-yardley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:50:26.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-yardley"
name: "George Yardley"
slug: "george-yardley"
description: "George Harry Yardley III was an American basketball player. He was the first player in National Basketball Association (NBA) history to score 2,000 points in one season, breaking the 1,932-point record held by George Mikan. Yardley was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996."
tagline: "American basketball player (1928–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Yardley_1959.jpeg?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: "1928-11-03"
deathDate: "2004-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.77232133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جورج ياردلى (لاعب كرة السله)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Yardley"
    title: "George Yardley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Yardley"
    title: "George Yardley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Yardley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Yardley"
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    title: "George Yardley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump