# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/natalie-nakase
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:42.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/natalie-nakase"
name: "Natalie Nakase"
slug: "natalie-nakase"
description: "Natalie Mitsue Nakase is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). After retiring as a player, she was a head coach for both men's and women's professional teams. Nakase was later an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). She then won two WNBA championships as an assistant coach for the Las Vegas Aces in 2022 and 2023. In 2025, she was named the WNBA Coach of the Year in her first season with the Valkyries."
tagline: "American professional basketball coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Natalie_Nakase_(45042021721)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1980-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.297674666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/NatalieNakase"
    handle:    "NatalieNakase"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Nakase"
    title: "Natalie Nakase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ناتالى ناكاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Nakase"
    title: "Natalie Nakase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BB"
    title: "ナタリー・ナカセ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%86%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ناتالی ناکاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Nakase"
    title: "Natalie Nakase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11323824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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