# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uri-kokia
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:18:02.549Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uri-kokia"
name: "Uri Kokia"
slug: "uri-kokia"
description: "Uri Kokia is an Israeli professional basketball coach and a former professional basketball player. He is the current head coach for Ironi Ramat Gan of the Liga Artzit. Kokia played as a center/power forward position and was a member of the Israel national basketball team. He was named the Israeli Basketball Super League Most Improved Player in 2009. In November 2017, Kokia publicly came out as gay."
tagline: "Israeli basketball player (born 1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Uri_Kokia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1981-05-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.809396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "ارى كوكيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Kokia"
    title: "Uri Kokia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Kokia"
    title: "Uri Kokia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "אורי קוקיה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Kokia"
    title: "Uri Kokia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2017463"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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