# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-forbes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:03.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-forbes"
name: "James Forbes"
slug: "james-forbes"
description: "James Ricardo Forbes was an American basketball player. His college career at the University of Texas at El Paso was crowned by his participation at the 1972 Olympics as a member of the youngest-ever U.S. team. Forbes played in the highly controversial 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, which ended in a loss for his team. Protesting refereeing in that match, he and the rest of the team have never accepted the silver medal."
tagline: "American basketball player (1952–2022)"
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: "1952-07-18"
deathDate: "2022-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.52
  momentum:             0.3729603729603729
  historical:           13.74935333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%B9%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E7%A6%8F%E5%B8%83%E6%96%AF"
    title: "詹姆斯·福布斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3_(%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "جيمس فوربس (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3_(%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: "جيمس فوربس (لاعب كرة السله)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forbes_(Basketballspieler)"
    title: "James Forbes (Basketballspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forbes_(basketball)"
    title: "James Forbes (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Forbes"
    title: "Jim Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "جیمز فوربس (بازیکن بسکتبال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forbes"
    title: "James Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forbes_(basket-ball)"
    title: "James Forbes (basket-ball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forbes_(kos%C3%A1rlabd%C3%A1z%C3%B3)"
    title: "James Forbes (kosárlabdázó)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Forbes"
    title: "Jim Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Forbes"
    title: "Jim Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Форбс, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forbes_(basketball)"
    title: "James Forbes (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forbes"
    title: "James Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%81_(%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Джеймс Форбс (баскетболіст)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2567189"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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