# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/god-shammgod
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:12:44.122Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/god-shammgod"
name: "God Shammgod"
slug: "god-shammgod"
description: "God Shammgod, formerly known as Shammgod Wells, is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA with the Washington Wizards during 1997–98 after being drafted by them in the second round of the 1997 NBA draft. He played in the Chinese Basketball Association for several teams, including the Zhejiang Cyclones and Shanxi Yujun. He also played professionally in Poland and Saudi Arabia. Despite a brief NBA career, he is well-remembered as the progenitor and namesake of a widely used crossover dribble, the \"Shammgod\", although the move, known in Europe as \"The Whip\", was already used earlier by former Yugoslavian players Dragan Kićanović and Danko Cvjetićanin and later popularized by Dejan Bodiroga."
tagline: "American basketball player"
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: "1976-04-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.31
  momentum:             5.850647395362842
  historical:           7.968512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/godshammgod12/"
    handle:    "godshammgod12"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%B1%B1%E5%A7%86%E9%AB%98%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "高德·山姆高德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "غاد شامغاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "جاد شامجاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Shammgod"
    title: "God Shammgod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Shammgod"
    title: "God Shammgod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Shammgod"
    title: "God Shammgod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Shammgod"
    title: "God Shammgod"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B4%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B4%E3%83%83%E3%83%89"
    title: "ゴッド・シャムゴッド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3772728"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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