But many forget that in their earlier days, the Globetrotters won games in more conventional ways – barnstorming the U.S.to play local all-star teams and college teams and the like.
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As an accomplished athlete, Lemon achieved that dream when he was contacted by the Harlem Globetrotters before finishing high school.
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Marques Haynes: Considered by many the greatest dribbler of all time, he played for the team from 1947-53 and 1972-79. “He was all for it, he loved it, when we were back at the Basketball of Fame, that’s all he talked about, he wanted to do it again”.
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Lemon became an ordained minister in 1986, working with young people at basketball camps and youth prisons from his Scottsdale home base. He influenced many including Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain, who once said, “Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I’ve ever seen”.
Lemon grew up in North Carolina and joined the Harlem Globetrotters in 1954.
The team willingly went into war zones, behind the Iron Curtain, and, during the two dozen years that Lemon was active, they played in almost 100 countries, many of which were nations with which the United States had strained relations. Before the film, a newsreel ran about the Harlem Globetrotters.
Lemon was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003, three years after receiving the John W. Bunn Award, named in honor of the Hall of Fame’s first executive director, recognizing outstanding lifetime contributions to basketball.
“People would say it would be Dr J or even Jordan”.
The end of Lemon’s career with the Globetrotters in 1978 buttressed the dawn of the NBA’s golden era, with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson entering the league a year later. “I want you to always remember that life’s most meaningless statistic is the half time score and as far as I’m concerned it’s always half-time”, he once said on his website.
Besides, his fame surpassed antics on the court and soon he became a popular star among children.
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In an interview with United States broadcaster ABC in 2001, Lemon said that the Harlem Globetrotters were never driven by money.
