# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tristen-newton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:02.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tristen-newton"
name: "Tristen Newton"
slug: "tristen-newton"
description: "Tristen Jamal Newton is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the East Carolina Pirates and with the UConn Huskies where he won both the 2023 and 2024 national championships. Newton was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 49th overall pick in the 2024 NBA draft. He has also played for the Minnesota Timberwolves."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tristen_Newtown_White_House.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: "2001-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.394826666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%86_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%B9%D9%86"
    title: "ٹرسٹن نیوٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristen_Newton"
    title: "Tristen Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristen_Newton"
    title: "Tristen Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristen_Newton"
    title: "Tristen Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristen_Newton"
    title: "Tristen Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristen_Newton"
    title: "Tristen Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristen_Newton"
    title: "Tristen Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Ньютон, Тристен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristen_Newton"
    title: "Tristen Newton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100890869"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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