# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-yap
# Generated: 2026-09-04T23:45:51.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-yap"
name: "James Yap"
slug: "james-yap"
description: "James Carlos Agravante Yap Sr. is a Filipino professional basketball player and politician who last played for the Blackwater Bossing of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known by his nickname Big Game James, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play in the PBA."
tagline: "Filipino basketball player (born 1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Yap.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1982-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.197722666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%91%89%E7%AB%8B%E4%B8%AD"
    title: "葉立中"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "جيمس ياب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "جيمس ياب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yap"
    title: "James Yap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%BE_(%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%D8%8C_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B8%DB%B2)"
    title: "جیمز یاپ (بازیکن بسکتبال، زاده ۱۹۸۲)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yap"
    title: "James Yap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yap"
    title: "James Yap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yap"
    title: "James Yap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yap"
    title: "James Yap"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2058801"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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