# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-graboski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:28:14.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-graboski"
name: "Joe Graboski"
slug: "joe-graboski"
description: "Joseph William Graboski was an American professional basketball player. He spent 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the third player to enter the NBA without having played in college:. He was also the second player to play in the league while still being 18 years old. A star at Tuley High School in Chicago, the 6'7\" power forward had previously played some basketball with the Illinois Tool Works while he was a high school junior and senior before he began his professional career with the hometown Chicago Stags, with whom he played from 1949 to 1950. He also played for the Indianapolis Olympians, Philadelphia Warriors, St. Louis Hawks, and Chicago Packers, and he left the NBA in 1962 with 9,398 career points and 6,104 career rebounds."
tagline: "American basketball player (1930–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Graboski_1953.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: "1930-01-15"
deathDate: "1998-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.34
  momentum:             0.111731843575419
  historical:           7.406516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Graboski"
    title: "Joe Graboski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "جرابوسكى جو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "جرابوسكى جو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Graboski"
    title: "Joe Graboski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Graboski"
    title: "Joe Graboski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Graboski"
    title: "Joe Graboski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Graboski"
    title: "Joe Graboski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョー・グラボウスキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2354467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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