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Rik Smits

1966 - Today

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Rik Smits (born 23 August 1966), nicknamed "the Dunking Dutchman" is a Dutch former professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 7-foot-4-inch (2.24 m) center was drafted by the Pacers out of Marist College with the second overall pick in the 1988 NBA draft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rik Smits has received more than 950,060 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Rik Smits is the 350th most popular basketball player (down from 245th in 2019), the 1,055th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 875th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 950k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Rik Smits ranks 350 out of 1,757. Before him are Razija Mujanović, DeMar DeRozan, Chauncey Billups, Chris Webber, Danilo Gallinari, and Antoine Rigaudeau. After him are Goran Dragić, Frank Brian, Mehmet Okur, Darjuš Lavrinovič, Dimitris Diamantidis, and Darrall Imhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Rik Smits ranks 477. Before him are Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh, David Mackenzie, Timur Kulibayev, Artis Pabriks, Michiko Matsuda, and Joi Ito. After him are Andrea Temesvári, Aleksandr Skvortsov, Mário Centeno, Yūko Minaguchi, Andy Richter, and Tory Burch.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Rik Smits ranks 1,055 out of 1,646. Before him are Remko Pasveer (1983), Demy de Zeeuw (1983), Renate Dorrestein (1954), Marianne Vos (1987), Gerbrand Bakker (1962), and Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange (2003). After him are Lotte Verbeek (1982), Thekla Reuten (1975), Mark Jansen (1978), Ireen Wüst (1986), Mario Been (1963), and Headhunterz (1985).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among basketball players born in Netherlands, Rik Smits ranks 1. After him are Francisco Elson (1976), Dan Gadzuric (1978), Arvin Slagter (1985), and Dimeo van der Horst (1991).

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