# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/myer-skoog
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:21:28.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/myer-skoog"
name: "Myer Skoog"
slug: "myer-skoog"
description: "Myer Upton \"Whitey\" Skoog was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Minneapolis Lakers. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota."
tagline: "American basketball player-coach (1926-2019)"
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: "1926-11-02"
deathDate: "2019-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.145537333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E6%96%AF%E7%A7%91%E6%A0%BC"
    title: "迈尔·斯科格"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%BA"
    title: "ماير سكوغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AC"
    title: "ماير سكوج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Skoog"
    title: "Whitey Skoog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Skoog"
    title: "Whitey Skoog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Skoog"
    title: "Whitey Skoog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Skoog"
    title: "Whitey Skoog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myer_Skoog"
    title: "Myer Skoog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Скуг, Майер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myer_Skoog"
    title: "Myer Skoog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2330320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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