# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walt-hazzard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:48:05.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walt-hazzard"
name: "Walt Hazzard"
slug: "walt-hazzard"
description: "Mahdi Abdul-Rahman was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach. He played in college for the UCLA Bruins and was a member of their first national championship team in 1964. He also won a gold medal that year with the US national team at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Hazzard began his pro career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Los Angeles Lakers, who selected him a territorial pick in the 1964 NBA draft. He was named an NBA All-Star with the Seattle SuperSonics in 1968. After his playing career ended, he was the head coach at UCLA during the 1980s."
tagline: "American basketball player (1942-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walt_Hazzard_(UCLA).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: "1942-04-15"
deathDate: "2011-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.41
  momentum:             10
  historical:           15.157284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walt Hazzard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Hazzard"
    title: "Walt Hazzard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walt Hazzard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walt Hazzard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Hazzard"
    title: "Walt Hazzard"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Hazzard"
    title: "Walt Hazzard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walt Hazzard"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump