# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-henson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:14:36.009Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-henson"
name: "John Henson"
slug: "john-henson"
description: "John Allen Henson is an American former professional basketball player who played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels, where he was a two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Henson was selected with the 14th overall pick in 2012 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks and played his first 6+1⁄2 seasons with the team before being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in December 2018. In February 2020, he was traded to the Detroit Pistons."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Henson_cropped.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: "1990-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.23010133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/johnhenson31"
    handle:    "johnhenson31"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henson_(basketball)"
    title: "John Henson (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henson_(baloncestista)"
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    title: "John Henson (basket-ball)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Henson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump