# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-counts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:55:06.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-counts"
name: "Mel Counts"
slug: "mel-counts"
description: "Mel Grant Counts is an American former basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1964 to 1976. He was on the United States Olympic basketball team that won the gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He played college basketball for the Oregon State Beavers and was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1964 NBA draft. The Celtics won the NBA Championship in 1965 and 1966 with Counts on the team as Bill Russell's backup, but he was traded for the 1967 season to the Baltimore Bullets. Halfway through that season he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, who made it to the playoffs that year."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mel_Counts_OSU.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: "1941-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.76
  momentum:             33.92175572519084
  historical:           13.51919066666667
  currentAttention:     12.4
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3005882/"
    handle:    "nm3005882"
sources:
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    title: "梅尔·康茨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميل كاوتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميل كاوتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "مل کانتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%9C_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%A1"
    title: "מל קאונטס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Каунтс, Мел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Counts"
    title: "Mel Counts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%81"
    title: "Мел Каунтс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2275193"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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