The touring group of basketball players are known for their skills handling of the balls, dodging and sidesteps, and humor. From Pete Maravich to Magic to the skillful showmen of today’s NBA, Lemon’s influence on the game ran deep. And they (Globetrotters) seemed to make that ball talk.
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In 2003, Lemon was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Some of Lemon’s persona was the result of circumstance rather than plan. The Globetrotters understood the intersection of sports and entertainment. So he was drafted into the role of clown, eventually building on Tatum’s stock bits with stunts of his own. Not only would he have been good enough to play in the league, but Wilt Chamberlain, who played for the Globetrotters for one year before he was eligible for the NBA, once called him the greatest basketball player he ever saw – “better than Michael Jordan” (via the New York Times). Lemon would throw buckets of confetti on unsuspecting referees and fake injuries, among other gags. But he was upset because he wanted to play more than one quarter. He would go on to perform his high-flying antics for popes, kings, queens, presidents and countless fans. They could sell out venues of 75,000. The team was founded in Chicago when a group of students from Wendell Philips High School, became the Savoy Big Five. “You can not improvise currency, though”. Lemon and Curly Neal (who was bald) formed the backbone of the Globetrotters act for years. Check out some of Meadowlark Lemon’s moves below. We’re playing every night. In the early years, the Globetrotters would play double-headers with National Basketball Association teams to help the National Basketball Association draw fans. He also (memorably) appeared with the team on The Ed Sullivan Show, a couple of Gilligan’s Island episodes, three Scooby-Doo specials and as a pitchman for Charmin toilet paper.
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“We (our family) shared him with the world”. He decided then and there that he would someday join that team.
“He wasn’t a great basketball player but he could play”.
Lemon became an ordained minister in 1986 and spent the last years of his life trying to spread a message of faith through basketball. The sound of “Sweet Georgia Brown”, the Globetrotters’ theme song, was known worldwide. The Globetrotters had to sleep on the team bus, since the hotels were off-limits to African-Americans.
“The comedians were the ones who got cut first”, Lemon said in 1977. Acting never really panned out.
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No sense risking injury to his leggggg. “I like to step on things, not people”.
