# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nick-vanos
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:06:32.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nick-vanos"
name: "Nick Vanos"
slug: "nick-vanos"
description: "Nicolaas Peter Vanos was an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The San Mateo, California native was selected 32nd by the Suns in the 1985 NBA draft after playing at Hillsdale High School and Santa Clara University. He played only two seasons in the NBA, both of them for the Suns at center, ending with his death in a plane crash in 1987."
tagline: "American basketball player (1963–1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Nick_Vanos.jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1963-04-13"
deathDate: "1987-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.74
  momentum:             11.36523517382413
  historical:           5.735138666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vanos"
    title: "Nick Vanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "نيك فانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "نيك فانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E7%93%A6%E8%AF%BA%E6%96%AF"
    title: "尼克·瓦诺斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vanos"
    title: "Nick Vanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vanos"
    title: "Nick Vanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3876044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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