# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/preston-shumpert
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:26:16.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/preston-shumpert"
name: "Preston Shumpert"
slug: "preston-shumpert"
description: "Preston Anthony Shumpert, also known by his Turkish name of Mert Shumpert, is an American-born, naturalised-Turkish professional basketball player. He was twice named to the All-Big East first team while playing college basketball for Syracuse."
tagline: "American-born, naturalised-Turkish professional basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PrestonShumpert.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1979-08-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.678438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Shumpert"
    title: "Preston Shumpert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "ميرت شومبيرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "ميرت شومبيرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mert_Shumpert"
    title: "Mert Shumpert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Shumpert"
    title: "Preston Shumpert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Shumpert"
    title: "Preston Shumpert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1117860"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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