# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-hovasse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:05:30.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-hovasse"
name: "Tom Hovasse"
slug: "tom-hovasse"
description: "Thomas Wayne Hovasse is an American basketball coach and former player. After growing up in Security, Colorado, he played college basketball for the Penn State Nittany Lions. After not being selected in the 1989 NBA draft, he played professional basketball from 1989 to 2001, including a brief stint with the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association during the 1994–95 season and 10 seasons for teams in Japan."
tagline: "Basketball player and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Hovasse.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: "1967-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.3
  momentum:             0.1951032899770467
  historical:           6.629273333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A4%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E7%93%A6%E6%96%AF"
    title: "汤姆·霍瓦斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "توم هوڤاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hovasse"
    title: "Tom Hovasse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hovasse"
    title: "Tom Hovasse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hovasse"
    title: "Tom Hovasse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hovasse"
    title: "Tom Hovasse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9"
    title: "トム・ホーバス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3992482"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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