BASKETBALL PLAYER

Jo Jo White

1946 - 2018

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Joseph Henry White (November 16, 1946 – January 16, 2018) was an American basketball player. As an amateur, he played at the University of Kansas, where he was named a second-team All-American twice. White was part of the U.S. men's basketball team during the 1968 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal with the team.In the 1969 NBA draft, White was drafted 9th overall by the Boston Celtics, with whom he would play for ten seasons, winning the NBA Finals in 1974 and 1976 and being named Finals MVP the latter year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jo Jo White has received more than 1,136,249 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jo Jo White is the 130th most popular basketball player (up from 136th in 2019), the 7,066th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,571st in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jo Jo Whites by language

Over the past year Jo Jo White has had the most page views in the with 107,990 views, followed by Spanish (4,978), and Italian (3,780). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (146.56%), Uzbek (142.47%), and Simple English (85.79%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Jo Jo White ranks 130 out of 1,757. Before him are Vlade Divac, Predrag Danilović, Tom Heinsohn, Valdemaras Chomičius, Marion Jones, and Kevin McHale. After him are Doc Rivers, Andro Knego, Otar Korkia, Detlef Schrempf, David Blatt, and Zurab Sakandelidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jo Jo White ranks 518. Before him are Rodrigo Valdez, Aynsley Dunbar, Ramazan Abdulatipov, Dori Ghezzi, Valdomiro, and Leif Mortensen. After him are Ram Vilas Paswan, Ryszard Szurkowski, Jo Bonfrère, Gordon Haskell, Roy Thomas Baker, and Helen Shapiro. Among people deceased in 2018, Jo Jo White ranks 328. Before him are Nancy Wilson, John Miles, Helena Almeida, István Géczi, Ferenc Kósa, and Aly Lotfy Mahmoud. After him are Chuck McCann, Jerry Van Dyke, Charlotte Rae, Al Matthews, Yoshiaki Arata, and Susan Anspach.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jo Jo White ranks 7,066 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara Rush (1927), Blind Willie Johnson (1897), Lewis Cass (1782), Pat Robertson (1930), Ash Carter (1954), and Ally Walker (1961). After him are J. Christopher Stevens (1960), Robert Parrish (1916), Laura San Giacomo (1962), Martin Dempsey (1952), Harold Becker (1928), and Leigh Taylor-Young (1945).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Jo Jo White ranks 73. Before him are James Worthy (1961), Bill Walton (1952), Dave Cowens (1948), Tom Heinsohn (1934), Marion Jones (1975), and Kevin McHale (1957). After him are Doc Rivers (1961), David Blatt (1959), Walt Bellamy (1939), Dave Bing (1943), Dennis Johnson (1954), and Gary Payton (1968).

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