# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-hood
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:41:03.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-hood"
name: "Steve Hood"
slug: "steve-hood"
description: "Steven Lamarr Hood is an American former professional basketball player born in Lynchburg, Virginia. In high school Hood starred for DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, from 1983 to 1986 and was selected as a 1986 McDonald's All-American. He then received an athletic scholarship to play for the Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team. After two seasons, Hood transferred to James Madison University (JMU) to play for coach Lefty Driesell, who recruited Hood from high school. Driesell was the coach at Maryland when he recruited Hood but left the summer before Hood went to play at UMD."
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: "1968-04-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.52
  momentum:             7.745227745227745
  historical:           5.672462666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hood"
    title: "Steve Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "ستيف هود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "ستيف هود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hood"
    title: "Steve Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hood"
    title: "Steve Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hood"
    title: "Steve Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3973351"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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