# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roland-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:31:28.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roland-taylor"
name: "Roland Taylor"
slug: "roland-taylor"
description: "Roland Morris \"Fatty\" Taylor was an American professional basketball player. A 6’0\" guard born in Washington, D.C., and an alum of La Salle University, Taylor joined the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1969. After one year playing for the Washington Capitals, he moved on to the Virginia Squires, with whom he spent the prime of his career, tallying 3,495 points, 1,737 assists, and 1,715 rebounds in five seasons. Taylor became known as one of the few outstanding defensive players in a league known primarily for a \"run-and-gun\" style. On the Squires Taylor played with former or later NBA stars including Adrian Smith, \"Jumbo\" Jim Eakins and Julius \"Doctor J\" Erving. For one-and-a-half seasons Taylor was a teammate of George Gervin, and Taylor has been credited with coining Gervin's nickname \"The Iceman\". Taylor spent one season in the NBA (1976–77) as a member of the Denver Nuggets, and he retired in 1977 with combined ABA/NBA totals of 5,098 points, 2,563 assists, and 2,524 rebounds."
tagline: "American basketball player (1946-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roland_Taylor_1972.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: "1946-03-13"
deathDate: "2017-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.09
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.228548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Taylor"
    title: "Roland Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "رولاند تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "رولاند تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_Taylor"
    title: "Fatty Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_Taylor"
    title: "Fatty Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_Taylor"
    title: "Fatty Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Taylor"
    title: "Roland Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Тейлор, Фатти"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3740253"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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