# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-cohalan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:18:44.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-cohalan"
name: "Neil Cohalan"
slug: "neil-cohalan"
description: "Cornelius Joseph \"Neil\" Cohalan was an American basketball coach. He was the first coach of the New York Knicks and has the distinction of being the winning coach of the first game played in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the forerunner to the modern National Basketball Association (NBA). The game, a November 1, 1946 contest between the Knicks and the Toronto Huskies played in famed Maple Leaf Gardens, was won 68–66 by the Knickerbockers."
tagline: "American basketball coach (1906-1968)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1906-07-31"
deathDate: "1968-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.91
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.022068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Cohalan"
    title: "Neil Cohalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Cohalan"
    title: "Neil Cohalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Cohalan"
    title: "Neil Cohalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Cohalan"
    title: "Neil Cohalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Cohalan"
    title: "Neil Cohalan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3874293"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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