# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-ruklick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:59:19.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-ruklick"
name: "Joe Ruklick"
slug: "joe-ruklick"
description: "Joseph Wayne Ruklick was an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Northwestern Wildcats and was an All-American in 1959. Ruklick was selected by Philadelphia in the second round of the 1959 NBA draft. He was known for passing the ball for the assist on Warriors teammate Wilt Chamberlain's final score en route to his NBA record 100-point game."
tagline: "American basketball player (1938-2020)"
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: "1938-08-03"
deathDate: "2020-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.008316
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ruklick"
    title: "Joe Ruklick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "جو روكليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "جو روكليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ruklick"
    title: "Joe Ruklick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ruklick"
    title: "Joe Ruklick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ruklick"
    title: "Joe Ruklick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ruklick"
    title: "Joe Ruklick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ruklick"
    title: "Joe Ruklick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3808693"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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