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The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, since 2015) and the New York Nationals (1995 ...
Pages in category "Harlem Globetrotters players" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
' The Hawk ' playground legend, high-gliding star big man from Brooklyn. Career marred by alleged point-shaving scandal. Nonetheless starred for Harlem Globetrotters, ABL-ABA Pittsburgh Pipers, which he led to the first ABA title in 1968. [89] 1992: Bob Lanier: C: All-America at St. Bonaventure University, 1968, 1969, 1970 NCAA Final Four, 1970
Broadcast from September 12, 1970, to October 16, 1971, on CBS Saturday Morning, repeated from September 10, 1972, to May 20, 1973, on CBS Sunday Morning, and later re-run from February 4 to September 2, 1978, on NBC as The Go-Go Globetrotters—a two-hour show that also incorporated the animated shorts of a show of the previous year, The CB Bears.
The Generals played their last game against the Globetrotters on August 1, 2015, in Wildwood, New Jersey. [11] [9] Overall, the Generals had lost to the Globetrotters more than 16,000 times in their combined history [2] while winning a mere 3–6 games. [12] [13] From 2015 the Globetrotters' opposition was organised by their own management.
His shaved head earned him his nickname, a reference to the Three Stooges' Curly Howard, and made him one of the most recognizable Globetrotters. In the 1970s, an animated version of Neal starred with various other Globetrotters in the Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon Harlem Globetrotters as well as its spinoff, The Super Globetrotters.
Curley "Boo" Johnson (born February 10, 1965) is an American basketball player, best known as a member of the Harlem Globetrotters, ... Illinois, in 1970 at age 4. He ...
Lemon first applied to the Globetrotters in 1954 at age 22, finally being chosen to play in 1955. In 1980, he left to form one of his Globetrotters imitators, the Bucketeers. [11] He played with that team until 1983, then moved on to play with the Shooting Stars from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he moved on to "Meadowlark Lemon's Harlem All Stars" team.