# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-moncrief
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:44:59.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-moncrief"
name: "Sidney Moncrief"
slug: "sidney-moncrief"
description: "Sidney Alvin Moncrief is an American former professional basketball player. As an NCAA college basketball player from 1975 to 1979, Moncrief played for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, leading them to the 1978 Final Four and a win in the NCAA Consolation Game versus #6 Notre Dame. Nicknamed Sid the Squid, Sir Sid, and El Sid, Moncrief went on to play 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association, including ten seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks. He was a five-time NBA All-Star and won the first two NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards in 1983 and 1984. He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019."
tagline: "American basketball player-coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sidney_Moncrief_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1957-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9008365639665374
  historical:           17.18466
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump