# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/happy-hairston
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:41:02.949Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/happy-hairston"
name: "Happy Hairston"
slug: "happy-hairston"
description: "Harold \"Happy\" Hairston was an American professional basketball player. A 6-foot-7-inch (201 cm), 225-pound (102 kg) forward, he was best remembered for playing with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and he also played for the Cincinnati Royals and the Detroit Pistons. Hairston was a member of the NBA champion 1971–72 Lakers; that team won 33 games in a row, a record not duplicated in any other American professional sport."
tagline: "Basketball player (1942-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Happy_Hairston_1974.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: "1942-05-31"
deathDate: "2001-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.3
  momentum:             3.478260869565216
  historical:           10.70133466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354376/"
    handle:    "nm0354376"
sources:
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    title: "هابى هيرستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ھەپی ھایرستن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Happy Hairston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hairston"
    title: "Happy Hairston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hairston"
    title: "Happy Hairston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "האפי היירסטון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hairston"
    title: "Happy Hairston"
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    title: "Happy Hairston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Happy Hairston"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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