# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-novak
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:52:32.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-novak"
name: "Mike Novak"
slug: "mike-novak"
description: "Michael Donald Novak was an American professional basketball player. He played in the NBL, BAA, and NBA from 1939 to 1954. A 6'9\" center from Loyola University Chicago, he was one of the first prominent \"big men\" to play professional basketball, averaging 8.5 points per game over the course of his career as a member of the Chicago Bruins, Chicago Studebaker Flyers, Sheboygan Red Skins, Syracuse Nationals, Rochester Royals, and Philadelphia Warriors."
tagline: "American basketball player (1915-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Novak_Loyola.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: "1915-04-23"
deathDate: "1978-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Novak"
    title: "Mike Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "مايك نوفاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "مايك نوفاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA"
    title: "Новак, Майк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Novak"
    title: "Mike Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Novak"
    title: "Mike Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3857433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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