Pamela McGee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Pamela McGee

American professional women's basketball player

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1962

Place of Birth: Flint, Michigan, United States

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Pamela McGee

  • Pamela Denise McGee (born December 1, 1962) is an American retired professional women's basketball player and assistant coach.
  • At age 34, she was the second overall pick in the 1997 WNBA Draft.
  • She played in the league for two seasons with the Sacramento Monarchs and Los Angeles Sparks. McGee grew up in Flint, Michigan, where she attended Flint Southwestern Academy before graduating from Flint Northern High School. McGee won back-to-back NCAA Championships as an All-American at the University of Southern California, where she was a teammate of twin sister Paula, and Cynthia Cooper and Cheryl Miller.
  • In 1984, she won Olympic gold in Los Angeles before embarking on a professional career that included stints in Brazil, France, Italy and Spain.
  • She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012.
  • She has been noted as one of the few women basketball players who has won on every level.
  • 2 State Championships in Michigan with a still standing record of 75-0 wins.
  • She then won 2 National Championships at the University of Southern California in the eighties.
  • That same year she graduated as student-athlete in 4 years with a BA in Communications and Social Science.
  • That same year she was the first to win a Gold-Medal in Women's Basketball.
  • She then won World Championships in Barcelona Spain, Brazilian World Championships, and the European Ronchetti Cup with 4-time WNBA MVP Cynthia Cooper.
  • She culminated her career as a coach by winning the 2003 WNBA championship. McGee has once again made history when both her son and daughter were drafted in the NBA and WNBA.
  • JaVale McGee was the 18th pick in the 2008 NBA draft and Imani was the 10th pick in the 2016 draft, making her the first WNBA mom to have a son and daughter drafted.

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