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Paul Arizin

1928 - 2006

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Paul Joseph Arizin (April 9, 1928 – December 12, 2006), nicknamed "'Pitchin Paul", was an American basketball player who spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Philadelphia Warriors from 1950 to 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Arizin has received more than 515,186 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Paul Arizin is the 84th most popular basketball player (up from 97th in 2019), the 5,129th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,838th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Paul Arizins by language

Over the past year Paul Arizin has had the most page views in the with 68,209 views, followed by Chinese (4,924), and Spanish (3,618). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (409.09%), Persian (272.84%), and Chechen (71.60%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Paul Arizin ranks 84 out of 1,757. Before him are Sam Jones, Len Bias, Lenny Wilkens, Pau Gasol, Kevin Durant, and Dino Rađa. After him are Jānis Krūmiņš, Modestas Paulauskas, Sergio Scariolo, Wes Unseld, Dino Meneghin, and Nate Archibald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Paul Arizin ranks 322. Before him are Leonid Bronevoy, Bella Davidovich, Eugenio Monti, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Peter Shirayanagi, and Karl Josef Becker. After him are Ann Blyth, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mary Daly, Giuseppe Pinelli, Angus Ogilvy, and Tzannis Tzannetakis. Among people deceased in 2006, Paul Arizin ranks 200. Before him are Anita O'Day, Arif Mardin, Pío Leyva, Sven Axbom, Max Merkel, and Rainer Barzel. After him are Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, André Schwarz-Bart, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Eugene Lazowski, and Jean-Louis de Rambures.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Arizin ranks 5,129 out of 20,380. Before him are Dennis Meadows (1942), Kevin Durant (1988), John Lurie (1952), Alice Pike Barney (1857), Jack Irons (1962), and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918). After him are Greta Gerwig (1983), Johnny Thunders (1952), Carlos Hathcock (1942), Ross Ulbricht (1984), Elizabeth Strout (1956), and Tony Accardo (1906).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Paul Arizin ranks 48. Before him are Chuck Daly (1930), Elvin Hayes (1945), Sam Jones (1933), Len Bias (1963), Lenny Wilkens (1937), and Kevin Durant (1988). After him are Wes Unseld (1946), Nate Archibald (1948), Bob McAdoo (1951), Reggie Miller (1965), Jerry Sloan (1942), and Jerry Lucas (1940).

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