# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-nolan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:25:44.423Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-nolan"
name: "Jim Nolan"
slug: "jim-nolan"
description: "James S. Nolan was an American professional basketball player. Nolan was selected in the second round of the 1949 BAA draft by the Philadelphia Warriors. He played for the Warriors for five games in the 1949–50 NBA season and recorded totals of eight points and four assists. He played college basketball and football at Georgia Institute of Technology. He later returned to Georgia and started a coaching career leading the Tech Freshman Basketball team from 1955 to 1957, then became the Lanier football coach in the early 1960s. He is a member of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player (1927–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Nolan_Georgia_Tech.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: "1927-06-09"
deathDate: "1983-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.1
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.682398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nolan_(basketball)"
    title: "Jim Nolan (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "جيم نولان (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جيم نولان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nolan"
    title: "Jim Nolan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nolan"
    title: "Jim Nolan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nolan"
    title: "Jim Nolan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3563535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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