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Joe Fulks

1921 - 1976

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Joseph Franklin "Jumping Joe" Fulks (October 26, 1921 – March 21, 1976) was an American professional basketball player. The NBA's first scoring champion, he was sometimes called "the first of the high-scoring forwards". He was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Fulks is the 263rd most popular basketball player (down from 213th in 2019), the 11,046th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,424th in 2019) and the 149th most popular American Basketball Player.

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Joe Fulks ranks 263 out of 1,757. Before him are Ray Lumpp, Lou Williams, Pierluigi Marzorati, Theodoros Papaloukas, Sam Balter, and Carl Knowles. After him are Dick Van Arsdale, Alex English, Sergio Llull, Bam Adebayo, Juan Antonio Corbalán, and Patty Mills.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Joe Fulks ranks 428. Before him are Gilbert Stork, Muriel Pavlow, Víctor Balaguer, Sheb Wooley, Kathleen Byron, and Jerzy Stefan Stawiński. After him are Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn, Erwin Hahn, Gene Saks, Peter Sallis, Johnny Otis, and Ruth Barcan Marcus. Among people deceased in 1976, Joe Fulks ranks 261. Before him are Justin McCarthy, Alfredo Pitto, DeHart Hubbard, Richard Arlen, Miriam Cooper, and Piero Scotti. After him are Vasile Chiroiu, Nils Middelboe, Alan Baxter, Nikolai Ekk, Renata Viganò, and Sybil Thorndike.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Fulks ranks 11,048 out of 20,380. Before him are Howard Jones (1970), Mark Hanna (1837), Raymond Thorne (1887), Rob Kardashian (1987), Herbert H. Lehman (1878), and Leroy Carr (1905). After him are Barbara Crampton (1958), Abigail Breslin (1996), Robert Russell Bennett (1894), Lewis Black (1948), Cobi Jones (1970), and Susan Seidelman (1952).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Joe Fulks ranks 149. Before him are Bill Laimbeer (1957), Jim Pollard (1922), Ray Lumpp (1923), Lou Williams (1986), Sam Balter (1909), and Carl Knowles (1910). After him are Dick Van Arsdale (1943), Alex English (1954), Bam Adebayo (1997), Al Attles (1936), Spud Webb (1963), and Carmelo Anthony (1984).

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