# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-young-q6145960
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:57:29.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-young-q6145960"
name: "James Young"
slug: "james-young-q6145960"
description: "James Calvin Young is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Ipswich Force of the NBL1 North. He played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before being selected with the 17th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. He spent the majority of his rookie NBA season playing in the NBA Development League for the Celtics' affiliate team, the Maine Red Claws. In 2019–20 he was the top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League, with an average of 20.5 points per game."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Young_2017.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: "1995-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.23
  momentum:             10.24390243902439
  historical:           16.20562133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 222
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    title: "詹姆斯·杨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Young (jugador de bàsquet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(Basketballspieler)"
    title: "James Young (Basketballspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(basketball)"
    title: "James Young (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(baloncestista)"
    title: "James Young (baloncestista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز یان (بازیکن بسکتبال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(basket-ball)"
    title: "James Young (basket-ball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Young"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Young (cestista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Жеймс Янг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(basketballer)"
    title: "James Young (basketballer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(koszykarz)"
    title: "James Young (koszykarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(basquetebolista)"
    title: "James Young (basquetebolista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
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    title: "James Young (basketbolcu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_(b%C3%A4setagl%C3%B6p%C3%A4dan)"
    title: "James Young (bäsetaglöpädan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6145960"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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