# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-fulks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:11:02.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-fulks"
name: "Joe Fulks"
slug: "joe-fulks"
description: "Joseph Franklin \"Jumping Joe\" Fulks was an American professional basketball player. The NBA's first scoring champion, he was sometimes called \"the first of the high-scoring forwards\". He was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978."
tagline: "American basketball player (1921–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Fulks.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: "1921-10-26"
deathDate: "1976-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.19
  momentum:             2.127175632318214
  historical:           13.40674266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "乔·福尔克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جو فولكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جو فولكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "ג'ו פולקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジョー・ファルクス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE"
    title: "Фулкс, Джо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Fulks"
    title: "Joe Fulks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691427"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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