# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-pollard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:10:14.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-pollard"
name: "Jim Pollard"
slug: "jim-pollard"
description: "James Clifford Pollard was an American professional basketball player and coach. As a player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Pollard was considered one of the best forwards in the 1950s and was known for his leaping ability, earning him the nickname \"The Kangaroo Kid\". A five-time NBA champion and four-time NBA All-Star, Pollard spent his entire eight-year professional career with the Minneapolis Lakers."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach (1922–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Pollard.jpeg?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: "1922-07-09"
deathDate: "1993-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.39
  momentum:             8.563475539286886
  historical:           14.464404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 228
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    title: "Поллард, Джим"
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    title: "Jim Pollard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump