# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:40:36.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-young"
name: "Michael Young"
slug: "michael-young"
description: "Michael Wayne Young is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed \"the Silent Assassin\", he had a 12-year playing career spent in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and overseas. He was most recently the director of basketball operations and performance enhancement at the University of Houston, his alma mater."
tagline: "American basketball player (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Young_playing_for_Houston.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: "1961-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.4504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young_(koszykarz)"
    title: "Michael Young (koszykarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA_(%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "مايكل يونغ (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87)"
    title: "مايكل يونج (لاعب كره سله)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young_(Basketballspieler)"
    title: "Michael Young (Basketballspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young_(basketball%2C_born_1961)"
    title: "Michael Young (basketball, born 1961)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young_(baloncestista)"
    title: "Michael Young (baloncestista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young_(basket-ball)"
    title: "Michael Young (basket-ball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young_(cestista)"
    title: "Michael Young (cestista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1623168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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