# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wataru-misaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:00:17.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wataru-misaka"
name: "Wataru Misaka"
slug: "wataru-misaka"
description: "Wataru Misaka was an American professional basketball player. A 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) point guard of Japanese descent, he broke a color barrier in professional basketball by being the first non-white player and the first player of Asian descent to play in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The National Basketball Association (NBA), which was created in 1949 with the merger of the BAA and the NBL, later adopted the BAA's history and thus considers Misaka to be the first non-white player of the league."
tagline: "American basketball player (1923–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wat_Misaka.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: "1923-12-21"
deathDate: "2019-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.97
  momentum:             3.453884424033678
  historical:           10.51978266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4772322/"
    handle:    "nm4772322"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E9%98%AA%E4%BA%99"
    title: "三阪亙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "واتارو ميساكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "واتارو ميساكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Misaka"
    title: "Wat Misaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Misaka"
    title: "Wat Misaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wataru_Misaka"
    title: "Wataru Misaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "واتارو میساکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wataru_Misaka"
    title: "Wataru Misaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1"
    title: "Վատարու Միսակա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Misaka"
    title: "Wat Misaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AB"
    title: "ワッツ・ミサカ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wataru_Misaka"
    title: "Wataru Misaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2698565"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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