The Harlem Globetrotters

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I'm assuming there isn't just one "Harlem Globetrotters" team but several different teams that tour around, because I saw them when I was living in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, so I must have been about 11 or 12, and based on that experience I would say CLASSIC.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them when I was about 12 too, and there was no curly! I was so disappointed! still, classic. I bought their Sweet Georgia Brown 7" and I still have it!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

my only knowledge of them comes from the animated team's appearance on scooby doo. quite excellent detectives, i think.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

THEN WHY HAVEN'T THEY CAUGHT THE NICOLE SIMPSON KILLER YET?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure that there is (or was) more than one. I know I saw them at some early age but can't recall where. At school?!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

As a kid I always thought that with their crazy skills, they could beat any NBA team and that they were disqualified because they were just too damn good.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My school mates tried to have it both ways. The second time I went to see them play, at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, I said I was in love with the girl player, the first female Globetrotter ever. They were horrified and told me I "loved a nigger." Um no I think the problem is more that I'm like 7 and she's in her twenties.

xpost Spencer haha yeah I think I thought that too.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them as a kid... they had this great gag where they took a lady's purse and started playing hoops with it... and with some slight of hand, an empty gin bottle flew out! We roared, she blushed.

― andy, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I saw them at some early age but can't recall where. At school?!
There was also a travelling team called the Harlem All-Stars, that played in smaller venues like schools. I don't know if there were multiple Globetrotter teams.. The Globetrotters were pretty well known for their individual players - meadowlark, curley, marcus, ..umm .. tito, germaine ..

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't there also a farm league, the Harlem Clowns? And who was Meadowlark Lemon involved with... was he a free agent?

― andy, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I was always disappointed that the water bucket contained confetti.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"THEY'RE TRAVELLING! THEY'RE TRAVELLING! ARRRGH, I can't believe I bet against the Harlem Globetrotters..."

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It's kind of weird that the Globetrotters didn't ride the coattails of the NBA when pro ball took off in the US.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

There was also a travelling team called the Harlem All-Stars, that played in smaller venues like schools.

Were they affiliated with the Globetrotters? Because it's not inconceivable that we got the real thing (we got visits from, like, Bernard King too). I think it might have been somewhere else, though.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think they were affiliated with the Globetrotters.. You may have had the real thing, but if you did, I don't think it "travelling version" .. I think it would either be the real thing or a ripoff fake.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember seeing them on New Year's Eve when I was a little kid, so classic. Also, possibly the last basketball game in a pro arena that I ever saw.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Whereas among the most well-known black barnstorming teams who found their beginnings in the 1920s were the New York Renaissance (or Rens), the Harlem Globetrotters, the New York Enforcers, the Harlem Clowns, the Harlem Road Kings, the Harlem Stars, the Harlem Ambassadors, and the Philadelphia Tribunes;

Whereas, despite the racism they faced, Negro basketball teams overcame great obstacles to play the game before black players were allowed to play in the National Basketball Association in the early 1950s;

Whereas the New York Rens became one of the first great basketball dynasties in the history of the game, compiling a 2,588-539 record in its 27-year existence, winning 88 straight games in the 1932-33 season, and winning the 1939 World Professional Championship;

Whereas the Harlem Globetrotters proved that they were capable of beating professional teams like the World Champions Minneapolis Lakers led by basketball great George Mikan in 1948;

― andy, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Harlem Globetrotters are my sign that the new year is officially here and the holidays are over. They seem to come to my down annually in the second or third week of January. When I see the television ads for their appearance next year, I'll think "Yup. It's 2005 alright..."

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

andy did you write that? Where's the rest of the sentence?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

RIP Curly

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 27 March 2020 18:59 (six years ago)

I was fascinated by the Globetrotters for a couple years as a youngster. There was virtually no footage of them playing actual games in their "golden era" so they were mythical beings to me. By the time they came around on tour, I had seen them on ABC or something and had lost interest as it was more fun n games shenanigans than crazy feats of hooposity.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:02 (six years ago)

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