# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thurl-bailey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:13:15.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thurl-bailey"
name: "Thurl Bailey"
slug: "thurl-bailey"
description: "Thurl Lee Bailey Sr. is an American former professional basketball player. A power forward, his National Basketball Association (NBA) career spanned from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Bailey has been a broadcast analyst for the Utah Jazz and the University of Utah— in addition to work as an inspirational speaker, singer, songwriter, and film actor. Bailey garnered the nickname \"Big T\" during his basketball career."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thurl_Bailey.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: "1961-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.65
  momentum:             15.35644970414201
  historical:           17.38733866666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047515/"
    handle:    "nm0047515"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "ثورل بيلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ثورل بيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BB_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B9"
    title: "Θερλ Μπέιλι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "تورل بیلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA'%D7%A8%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "ת'רל ביילי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "サール・ベイリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%A4_%EB%B2%A0%EC%9D%BC%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "설 베일리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Бэйли, Тарл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Bailey"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "تھرل بیلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%91%9F%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E8%B4%9D%E5%88%A9"
    title: "瑟尔·贝利"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1661518"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/583884"
    title: "Thurl Bailey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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