# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-ray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:36:39.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-ray"
name: "Don Ray"
slug: "don-ray"
description: "Donald L. Ray was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player. As a senior at Western Kentucky University, Ray was selected to the All-American second team by the Helms Foundation. Ray was drafted with the eleventh overall pick in the 1948 BAA Draft by the Philadelphia Warriors. He made his NBA debut in the 1949-50 NBA season for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. In sixty-one games for the Blackhawks, Ray averaged 6.0 points and 1.0 assist per game."
tagline: "American basketball player (1921-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Ray_basketball.jpeg?width=1200"
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: "1921-07-08"
deathDate: "1998-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669186666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ray_(basketball)"
    title: "Don Ray (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "دون راي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "دون راى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ray"
    title: "Don Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ray"
    title: "Don Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ray_(cestista)"
    title: "Don Ray (cestista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5293380"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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