# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-needles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:24:24.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-needles"
name: "Jimmy Needles"
slug: "jimmy-needles"
description: "James R. Needles was an American basketball coach best known for being the United States' first Olympic basketball coach in 1936."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach (1900–1969)"
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: "1900-03-03"
deathDate: "1969-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.27
  momentum:             4.320794148380354
  historical:           6.136537333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Needles"
    title: "James Needles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "چيمى نيدليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AF%CE%BC%CF%85_%CE%9D%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BB%CF%82"
    title: "Τζίμυ Νιντλς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Needles"
    title: "Jimmy Needles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Needles"
    title: "James Needles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Needles"
    title: "James Needles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Needles"
    title: "James Needles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1138682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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