# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mychal-thompson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:18:34.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mychal-thompson"
name: "Mychal Thompson"
slug: "mychal-thompson"
description: "Mychal George Thompson is a Bahamian-American sports commentator and former professional basketball player. He was the first player born & raised in the Bahamas to make the NBA. The top overall pick in the 1978 NBA draft, Thompson played the center position for the University of Minnesota and center and power forward for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Lakers. Thompson won two NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s. He is the father of basketball players Klay Thompson and Mychel Thompson, and baseball player Trayce Thompson."
tagline: "Bahamian basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mychal_Thompson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1956-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.13
  momentum:             1.795909671921602
  historical:           14.57229733333333
  currentAttention:     9.977275955120012
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "麥卡爾·湯普森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميشال تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميشال تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9C_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "מייקל תומפסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մայքլ Թոմփսոն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マイカル・トンプソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%BC_%ED%86%B0%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "마이칼 톰슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Thompson"
    title: "Mychal Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Томпсон, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2566308"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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