# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-shepherd
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:58:38.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-shepherd"
name: "Sam Shepherd"
slug: "sam-shepherd"
description: "Sam Shepherd, also known as El Mago, is an American/Venezuelan former professional basketball player who played for the Venezuelan basketball team in the 1992 Summer Olympics and world games in 1990, and for Colombian professional teams. He also went to two NBA camps for Washington Bullets tryouts and ABA Baltimore Claws. Throughout his long professional career, he scored more than 30,000 points and won more than 20 International Tournaments, in addition to holding the record for 20 years for most three-pointers made in a game 14 and more than 25 games scoring more than 50 points only player to average 52 points in tournament with Brazil, Dominican Republic, and Colombia."
tagline: "Olympic 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: "1953-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.45
  momentum:             12.53164556962025
  historical:           5.681462666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepherd_(basketball)"
    title: "Sam Shepherd (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "سام شيبرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "سام شيبرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepherd"
    title: "Sam Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%AF_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "سم شپرد (بازیکن بسکتبال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepherd"
    title: "Sam Shepherd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3946356"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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