# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-rudometkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:19:46.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-rudometkin"
name: "John Rudometkin"
slug: "john-rudometkin"
description: "John Rudometkin was an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks and San Francisco Warriors in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected in the second round as the 11th pick in the 1962 NBA draft by the Knicks and spent three seasons playing in the league. Rudometkin was nicknamed \"the Reckless Russian\" by Chick Hearn, the Los Angeles Lakers broadcaster who used to broadcast USC men's basketball games before transitioning to the NBA."
tagline: "American basketball player (1940-2015)"
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: "1940-06-06"
deathDate: "2015-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.76
  momentum:             11.95918367346939
  historical:           5.674658666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rudometkin"
    title: "John Rudometkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون رودومتكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون رودومتكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rudometkin"
    title: "John Rudometkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rudometkin"
    title: "John Rudometkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rudometkin"
    title: "John Rudometkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q578662"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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