# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ecker
# Generated: 2026-09-07T14:54:46.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ecker"
name: "John Ecker"
slug: "john-ecker"
description: "John Miles Ecker is a German-American former basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins under Coach John Wooden, winning three straight national championships from 1969 through 1971. Ecker played and coached professionally in Germany, where he also became a naturalized citizen in 1977. He also taught at a high school in Germany."
tagline: "German basketball player and association football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Ecker.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1948-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.96
  momentum:             5.901639344262294
  historical:           3.077358666666667
  currentAttention:     32.78688524590164
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جون اكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ecker"
    title: "John Ecker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ecker"
    title: "John Ecker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20763561"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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