# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-twyman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:14:41.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-twyman"
name: "Jack Twyman"
slug: "jack-twyman"
description: "John Kennedy Twyman was an American professional basketball player and sports broadcaster. During his career, he was a caregiver for his disabled teammate Maurice Stokes and both are the namesakes of the NBA's Twyman–Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. Twyman was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983."
tagline: "American basketball player (1929–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack_Twyman.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: "1929-09-07"
deathDate: "2012-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.520348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jack Twyman"
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    title: "Jack Twyman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Twyman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Twyman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump