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Nate Thurmond

1941 - 2016

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Nathaniel Thurmond (July 25, 1941 – July 16, 2016) was an American basketball player who spent the majority of his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Golden State Warriors franchise. He played the center and power forward positions. Thurmond was a seven-time All-Star and the first player in NBA history to record an official quadruple-double. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nate Thurmond has received more than 1,401,665 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Nate Thurmond is the 64th most popular basketball player (up from 67th in 2019), the 4,610th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,796th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Basketball Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Nate Thurmond ranks 64 out of 1,757Before him are Terry Dischinger, Muggsy Bogues, Don Nelson, Dragan Kićanović, Steve Kerr, and Pete Maravich. After him are Willis Reed, Chuck Daly, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Ivo Daneu, Tony Parker, and Dejan Bodiroga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Nate Thurmond ranks 288Before him are Pedro Carmona, Anatoly Levchenko, Airto Moreira, Félix Rodríguez, Stephen J. Cannell, and Ryuichi Sugiyama. After him are Albert Shesternyov, Neelie Kroes, Sara Nazarbayeva, Arie den Hartog, Renato Corsetti, and Peter Brötzmann. Among people deceased in 2016, Nate Thurmond ranks 233Before him are Doris Roberts, Juan Mujica, Sigge Parling, Manuel Velázquez, Steven Hill, and William H. McNeill. After him are Zoltán Kocsis, Kigeli V of Rwanda, Alphons Egli, Miruts Yifter, Nicole Courcel, and Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nate Thurmond ranks 4,610 out of 20,380Before him are Beau Biden (1969), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Keith David (1956), Yusuf Estes (1944), Olive Thomas (1894), and Bob Crane (1928). After him are Willis Reed (1942), Maude Adams (1872), Alvin York (1887), Al Taliaferro (1905), Chuck Daly (1930), and Roy J. Plunkett (1910).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Nate Thurmond ranks 40Before him are Allen Iverson (1975), Robert Parish (1953), Terry Dischinger (1940), Muggsy Bogues (1965), Don Nelson (1940), and Pete Maravich (1947). After him are Willis Reed (1942), Chuck Daly (1930), Elvin Hayes (1945), Sam Jones (1933), Len Bias (1963), and Lenny Wilkens (1937).