# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rasual-butler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:18:54.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rasual-butler"
name: "Rasual Butler"
slug: "rasual-butler"
description: "Rasual Butler was an American professional basketball player. In his 14-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career, he played for the Miami Heat, New Orleans Hornets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, Indiana Pacers, Washington Wizards and San Antonio Spurs. Butler was born in Philadelphia, and raised in the Point Breeze area of South Philadelphia. After playing college basketball with the La Salle Explorers, he was drafted in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft by the Heat. On January 31, 2018, Butler was behind the wheel when he and his girlfriend, Leah LaBelle, died in a single vehicle car crash in Los Angeles."
tagline: "American basketball player (1979–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rasual_Butler_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1979-05-23"
deathDate: "2018-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "RasualButler45"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump