# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-brunson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:52:37.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-brunson"
name: "Rick Brunson"
slug: "rick-brunson"
description: "Eric Daniel \"Rick\" Brunson is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Temple Owls. He played nine seasons in the NBA and has worked as an assistant coach for several teams. As a coach, Brunson won an NBA championship with the Knicks in 2026, where his son Jalen also played."
tagline: "American basketball player-coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/20140322_Rick_Brunson_2.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: "1972-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.898801333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Brunson"
    title: "Rick Brunson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريك برونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريك برونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Brunson"
    title: "Rick Brunson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Brunson"
    title: "Rick Brunson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Brunson"
    title: "Rick Brunson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E4%BC%A6%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "里克·布伦森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3935002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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