# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-westhead
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:47.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-westhead"
name: "Paul Westhead"
slug: "paul-westhead"
description: "Paul William Westhead is an American former basketball coach. He was the head coach for three National Basketball Association (NBA) teams and an assistant for four others, and also coached in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), American Basketball Association (ABA), and Japan Basketball League (JBL). In his first year as an NBA head coach, he led a rookie Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers to the 1980 NBA Finals, which they won in six games for the team's first title in eight years. Westhead won titles in both the NBA and WNBA, and he is also remembered as the coach of the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) men's basketball team. Westhead is known for an unorthodox, run-and-gun style called \"The System.\" He was nicknamed \"The Professor\" due to his former career as an English teacher prior to coaching and his tendency to quote Shakespeare and other literary sources while coaching. He attended Saint Joseph's University."
tagline: "American basketball coach"
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: "1939-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.02
  momentum:             4.363142857142857
  historical:           10.54308933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 244
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1631485/"
    handle:    "nm1631485"
sources:
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    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پول ويسثياد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westhead"
    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westhead"
    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westhead"
    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%94%D7%93"
    title: "פול וסטהד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westhead"
    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westhead"
    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westhead"
    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1609483"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3526521"
    title: "Paul Westhead"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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