# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:35:35.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-walker"
name: "Jimmy Walker"
slug: "jimmy-walker"
description: "James Walker was an American professional basketball player. A 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) guard, he played nine seasons (1967–1976) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, and Kansas City-Omaha / Kansas City Kings. Walker was a two-time All-Star who scored 11,655 points in his career. He was also the father of former NBA player Jalen Rose, though he left Rose's mother prior to his birth and took no part in his child's upbringing. Walker died on July 2, 2007, at the age of 63, from complications related to lung cancer."
tagline: "American basketball player (1944–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Walker1.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: "1944-04-08"
deathDate: "2007-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.84
  momentum:             9.321314952279957
  historical:           10.81268266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Уокер, Джимми (баскетболист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمي ووكر (لاعب كرة سلة مواليد 1944)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87)"
    title: "جيمى ووكر (لاعب كرة السله)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Walker"
    title: "Jimmy Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Walker_(basketball%2C_born_1944)"
    title: "Jimmy Walker (basketball, born 1944)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Walker"
    title: "Jimmy Walker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "جیمی واکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Walker_(basket-ball)"
    title: "Jimmy Walker (basket-ball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A8"
    title: "ג'ימי ווקר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Walker_(cestista)"
    title: "Jimmy Walker (cestista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC_(%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB)"
    title: "ジミー・ウォーカー (バスケットボール)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Walker_(koszykarz)"
    title: "Jimmy Walker (koszykarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2332464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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