# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-ignacio-sanchez
# Generated: 2026-09-02T21:43:29.697Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-ignacio-sanchez"
name: "Juan Ignacio Sánchez"
slug: "juan-ignacio-sanchez"
description: "Juan Ignacio Sánchez Brown, commonly known as Pepe Sánchez, is an Argentine former professional basketball player. He played at the point guard position. He was a part of Argentina's 2004 Olympic gold medal team and was the first Argentine to play in the NBA. He played two seasons in the NBA, playing in a total of 38 games with the Philadelphia 76ers, Atlanta Hawks, and the Detroit Pistons, averaging only 5 minutes per game."
tagline: "Argentine basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PepeSanchez.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1977-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.854612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.pepe-sanchez.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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