# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/danny-schayes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:27:27.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/danny-schayes"
name: "Danny Schayes"
slug: "danny-schayes"
description: "Daniel Leslie Schayes is an American former professional basketball player who played for Syracuse University and played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1981 until 1999. At 6' 11\" and 235 pounds, he played both the center and power forward positions. He is the son of the late Dolph Schayes, who was selected for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Since his retirement from the NBA, Schayes has served as co-host of Centers of Attention, a sports talk show on ESPN Radio Syracuse in Syracuse, New York. His co-host is Etan Thomas, also a retired American professional basketball player."
tagline: "American basketball player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1959-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.32
  momentum:             16.32196162046908
  historical:           9.876464
  currentAttention:     8.4
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 214
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81"
    title: "Денні Шейс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "داني شيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "دانى شيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Schayes"
    title: "Danny Schayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Schayes"
    title: "Danny Schayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Schayes"
    title: "Danny Schayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Schayes"
    title: "Danny Schayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%99%D7%96"
    title: "דני שייז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Schayes"
    title: "Danny Schayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Schayes"
    title: "Danny Schayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Шейес, Дэнни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324842"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump