# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ossie-schectman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:18:44.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ossie-schectman"
name: "Ossie Schectman"
slug: "ossie-schectman"
description: "Oscar Benjamin \"Ossie\" Schectman was an American professional basketball player. He is credited with having scored the first basket in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which would later become the National Basketball Association (NBA)."
tagline: "American basketball player (1919-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Ossie_Schectman.jpg"
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: "1919-03-30"
deathDate: "2013-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51
  momentum:             23.55749940409979
  historical:           9.057353333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Шектман, Осси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اوسى ستشيكتمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Schectman"
    title: "Ossie Schectman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Schectman"
    title: "Ossie Schectman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Schectman"
    title: "Ossie Schectman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Schectman"
    title: "Oscar Schectman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%96%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "אוזי שכטמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Schectman"
    title: "Ossie Schectman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Schectman"
    title: "Ossie Schectman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossie_Schectman"
    title: "Ossie Schectman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q454850"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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