# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roscoe-pondexter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:36.710Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roscoe-pondexter"
name: "Roscoe Pondexter"
slug: "roscoe-pondexter"
description: "Roscoe Pondexter Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Long Beach State 49ers from 1972 to 1974. Pondexter was a third round pick of the Boston Celtics in the 1974 NBA draft, but played his professional career in Europe and South America. He became a prison guard after his retirement from basketball and was involved with a gang at California State Prison, Corcoran who earned notoriety for their brutal treatment of inmates."
tagline: "American basketball player"
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: "1952-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.410872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Pondexter"
    title: "Roscoe Pondexter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Pondexter"
    title: "Roscoe Pondexter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3941406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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