# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikki-mccray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:03:08.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikki-mccray"
name: "Nikki McCray"
slug: "nikki-mccray"
description: "Nikki Kesangane McCray-Penson was an American basketball player and coach. She was the head coach of the Mississippi State Bulldogs women's basketball team from 2020 to 2021 and a professional basketball player from 1996 to 2006. She played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for eight seasons. In 2008 after leaving the WNBA, McCray joined the coaching staff as an assistant coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks. McCray-Penson was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012."
tagline: "American professional basketball player (1971–2023)"
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: "1971-12-17"
deathDate: "2023-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.62
  momentum:             17.37974683544304
  historical:           15.50187466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "尼基·麦克雷"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيكي مكري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيكى مكرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray"
    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray"
    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray-Penson"
    title: "Nikki McCray-Penson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray"
    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "نیکی مک‌کری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray-Penson"
    title: "Nikki McCray-Penson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray-Penson"
    title: "Nikki McCray-Penson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99"
    title: "ניקי מקריי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray"
    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray"
    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray-Penson"
    title: "Nikki McCray-Penson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray"
    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Маккрей, Никки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_McCray"
    title: "Nikki McCray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2017351"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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