Globe Trotters (Basketball)
 

Are they still around ? Seldom hear of them any more. They put on a terrific show.
Saw them play many years ago. Just wondering if they still exist.

Yes. It looks like they are playing in your neck of the woods now.

https://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/world-tour/schedule/

I loved watching them when I was a kid. I think I've seen a video of them sometime in the last 15-20 years, maybe it was online. I'm glad that they're still out there.

The original team cam to our school and played our varsity basketball team. They were hysterical, and amazing talent. Of course I was taking pictures for our yearbook, and they did the old bucket trick on me. I thought for sure my camera and myself were about to be soaked. Just confetti.

I was traumatized in the 7th grade when my english teacher explained the Globe Trotters weren't a real NBA team. Like, could that mean David Cassidy and the Partridge Family were also contrived by Madison Ave?

I saw them in the late sixties in Moncton NB while I was in college. They were magic.
Great entertainers !

there was another spin-off team traveling at the same time....I can't remember the team name, but I know it had the word Satellites in it.
They came to our HS in the early 70's.

They were founded in 1929...

They beat the Washington General's 19,000 times..

The General's had black dudes as well. Something ain't right. Like it was planned or something.

Here's some Satellite info.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1714262149.jpg

I want to say I saw the Globetrotters, but was there another basketball team that did the same thing? This was in the late 60s or early 70s.

I somehow completely missed the sports appreciation gene. Just don’t care about that stuff. But wow! I was completely consumed by the HG as a kid when I saw them. Pretty amazing.

I got to see Meadowlark Lemon play back in the day.

I saw them play in the early 70s as a kid with Meadowlark and Curly Neal, who was a local hs product so they always got plenty of attention when playing here. They were consumate b-ball talents and entertainers ... and brought joy to everyone :)!

Simply awesome they were...

The Savannah Bananas have evolved into baseball’s version of the Globe Trotters. Always sold out and you have to get into a lottery to try to obtain tickets.

Another exhibition was softball's The King and His Court. The king was an incredible pitcher that could throw from between his legs, throw strikes blindfolded, and other manoeuvres and still get some heat into the ball. He had 3 other players, a catcher, first baseman and shortstop handling the out field and some bases if he could get there. The 3 of them would beat just about any 9 player team. They didn't bring their own opponents but took on amaterur teams.

Yep, I get it about the sports gene. I generally don't know who's in the super bowl, world series, etc... unless I see it posted here or someone specifically talks to me about it. But as a kid, I thought the HG were awesome.

Man could that dude talk ! He was the verbal QB of the team . A talented player and entertainer .

I was trying to remember what the name of the team was. They had some talent, some of that action they did between Curly and Meadowlark was great choreography.

You think the Generals would have been eventually drafted a Michael Jordan type with the number of #1 picks over all those years. Even more amazing is that the globe trotters did it with lowly number 2’s. Something to be said for good coaching.

Wilt said Meadowlark Lemon was the best basketball player he ever saw

Went a few times with the grandkids. They have activities they have the kids do before too. Grandson did a reverse layup high on the glass, and the Globetrotter guy says, "Hey, do that again." so he did.