# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-pellom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:08:17.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-pellom"
name: "Sam Pellom"
slug: "sam-pellom"
description: "Samuel Troy Pellom is an American former professional basketball player born in Wilmington, North Carolina. The 6'9\" forward-center played professionally for the Atlanta Hawks and the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA and played college basketball for the Buffalo Bulls, and was the first player from UB's basketball team to play in the NBA. Pellom also played for the Washington Generals, the team that plays the Harlem Globetrotters."
tagline: "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: "1951-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pellom"
    title: "Sam Pellom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "سام بيلوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "سام بيلوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pellom"
    title: "Sam Pellom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pellom"
    title: "Sam Pellom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pellom"
    title: "Sam Pellom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1657660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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