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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 ...
Gaines was born in Paducah, Kentucky to Lester and Olivia Bolen Gaines. [1] Clarence helped his family by working in a garage while in high school. [2] He attended local Lincoln High School where he excelled academically, played basketball, was an All-State football player, and played trumpet in the school band.
After a 12-year hiatus, the team returned to their Generals identity on October 9, 2007, playing against the Globetrotters at the 369th Harlem Armory. The Globetrotters won 54–50. [10] The monikers of "International Elite" and the "Global Select" were adopted prior to the 2011–12 World Tour.
He played professionally for three games for the Kentucky Colonels during the 1967–68 American Basketball Association season after a four-year stint with the Harlem Globetrotters. Gaines attended LeMoyne-Owen College from 1959 to 1963 where he was the first player to have his number retired.
From early on, the Globetrotters blended basketball with showmanship and ball-handling wizardry, but they were also extremely talented basketball players, winning most of their games. In 1940, the Globetrotters beat the legendary black basketball team, the New York Renaissance. [1]
Remaining in Chicago after high school, Watson went on to become a founding member of the Giles Post Legion squad and the Savoy Big Five, both direct precursors of today's Harlem Globetrotters. Legendary GlobeTrotters owner Abe Saperstein created a 'mirror' Globetrotters club patterned after the team founded by Watson's friend and old Wendell ...
Thornton opted to sign with the Floridians and played for the team through two seasons, averaging 6.6 points per game in the 1968–69 season and 8.8 points per game in 1969–70. [ 1 ] Thornton then played for the Harlem Globetrotters [ 2 ] and appeared in the 1981 movie The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island .
Frank Washington (4 April 1921 - 24 January 2013) [1] was an American basketball player. He was born and raised in Germantown and graduated from Germantown High School. Washington was a 6'4" guard from Wilberforce, Ohio. [2] Before joining the US Navy, he played one season for the New York Rens from 1941 to 1942 . [3]