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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 ...
The Globetrotters ended up in a basketball game against his knights on horseback in order to reclaim the stolen monuments. After the Globetrotters won, Merlo reluctantly returns the monuments to their rightful locations. He is a spoof of Merlin. Knights of the Crooked Table – A group of knights that serve as Merlo's henchmen.
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.
Haynes, circa 1950. Haynes played with the Globetrotters from 1947 to 1953. One of the exhibition games in which he played was the famous game in West Berlin on August 22, 1951, where a landmark 75,000 people were recorded in attendance—although Haynes later insisted the turnout was closer to 90,000—and Haynes met track star Jesse Owens, with whom he roomed on the tour.
The animated Globetrotters also made three appearances in The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Neal himself appeared with Meadowlark Lemon, Marques Haynes, and his other fellow Globetrotters in a live-action Saturday morning TV show, The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine, in 1974–75, which also featured Rodney Allen Rippy and Avery Schreiber. [2]
Many of the towns where the Globetrotters played in their first few years were all white, and Saperstein did not want other teams or spectators to be surprised that his team was black. [1] The Globetrotters played their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. The team netted a grand total of $8, which was split evenly among the six members of the ...
The 1948 Globetrotters–Lakers game was a dramatic match-up between the Harlem Globetrotters and the Minneapolis Lakers. Played in Chicago Stadium, the game took place two years before professional basketball was desegregated. The Globetrotters' 61–59 victory – by two points at the buzzer – challenged prevailing racial stereotypes about ...
Eugene Edgerson (born February 10, 1978, in New Orleans, Louisiana) [1] is an American basketball player who used to play for the Harlem Globetrotters.As is tradition with the Globetrotters, Edgerson has a nickname: "Wildkat", presumably in honor of his alma mater, the University of Arizona.