# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-cheeks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:24:59.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-cheeks"
name: "Maurice Cheeks"
slug: "maurice-cheeks"
description: "Maurice Edward Cheeks is an American professional basketball coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers, and Detroit Pistons. Cheeks was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2018. He was the first player with 2,000 steals solely in the NBA."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurice_Cheeks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1956-09-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.59
  momentum:             0.5989118076985546
  historical:           16.40637466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Cheeks"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чикс, Морис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump