# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rich-alvarez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:28.483Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rich-alvarez"
name: "Rich Alvarez"
slug: "rich-alvarez"
description: "Richard Alvarez is a Japanese-born Filipino professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Macau Black Knights of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played his whole career in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was the first overall pick of 2004 PBA draft by the Shell Turbo Chargers."
tagline: "Filipino basketball player"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Rich_Alvarez_2007.jpg/330px-Rich_Alvarez_2007.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1980-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.05
  momentum:             10.3448275862069
  historical:           3.783193333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ريتش ألفاريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ريتش الفاريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Alvarez"
    title: "Rich Alvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Alvarez"
    title: "Rich Alvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7323161"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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