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343 - Never Forget
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June 20, 2023, 10:06 PM
konata88
I remember seeing them live a long time ago. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Talented guys they were.
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June 20, 2023, 10:49 PM
oddball
I was a big fan of the Globetrotters when I was a kid, and at the time, they were the most popular basketball team by far. I followed the Lakers with Wilt, Jerry West, Gail Goodrich, etc, but the Globetrotters were kings, and Meadowlark Lemon was the guy. He was Michael Jordan famous before Jordan played high school ball, he was a global celebrity. Hell, they had their own Saturday cartoon show and variety TV show.
It was well known Lemon could consistently make that half-court hook shot whenever he wanted. And speaking of Chamberlain- until his dying days, he always considered Lemon to be the best basketball player in history, even though he never played pro ball.
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June 21, 2023, 04:31 AM
gearhounds
I remember going to a Globetrotter game as a kid- it was hilarious to my brothers and I.
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June 21, 2023, 05:02 AM
mark60
I saw them live in the 70's and Meadowlark was The Man. They put on an incredible show.
June 21, 2023, 05:09 AM
SW_Sig
I saw them play the Dallas Cowboys in 1976 in Little Rock.
June 21, 2023, 05:53 AM
Bassamatic
I remember seeing the Globetrotters live when I was around 12 years old. That would have been 1960. The coach took our little league basketball team to the big city.
I've been a fan my whole life.
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June 21, 2023, 08:02 AM
NOCkid
Saw them about 60 years ago in Cleveland. Wilt was no longer with the team and Curley Neal had replaced Marques Haynes. Meadowlark was quite the showman. Red Klotz and the Washington Generals were the Globetrotters' perennial victims.
June 21, 2023, 08:30 AM
HRK
He was great as was the whole group, remember seeing them as a kid in person and then on TV.
They were talented, creative and hilarious!
June 21, 2023, 10:23 AM
jhe888
My dad took us to see them in the early '70s - Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal were on the team then. I was about ten or eleven and thought it was great.
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June 21, 2023, 12:56 PM
clipper1
Meadowlark, and the Globetrotters, = Talent loaded with a Magnum of Class. I have never heard Sweet Georgia Brown without simultaneously thinking of them. Good memories.