Lemon played 24 seasons and almost 16,000 games with the Globetrotters, the touring exhibition basketball team known for its slick ball-handling, practical jokes, red-white-and-blue uniforms and multiyear winning streaks against overmatched opponents.
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He had dreamed of joining the Globetrotters since seeing the team in newsreel footage in his native Wilmington, N.C., and, according to various interviews, never regretted not playing in the National Basketball Association. In 1993, he returned to the Globetrotters for a 50-game comeback tour.
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Lemon and the famed Harlem Globetrotters took the game of basketball from Kansas farm towns, and introduced the sport all over the world.
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“We played serious games too, against the Olympic teams and the College All-Stars”, Mr. Lemon said.
“My destiny was to make people happy”, he said as he was inducted into the basketball hall in 2003.
“I said ‘That’s mine”.
In 2000 Lemon was honored with the highest award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame outside of induction -John Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award. He was called the “clown prince” of the Globetrotters and became famous the world over playing before presidents, popes, kings, and queens.
Globetrotters spokesman Brett Meister said Lemon’s wife and daughter confirmed to the team that he died in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lemon was a fan of the team as a kid and joined up with them after finishing a stint in the US Army in 1954.
Lemon was admired by both basketball fans and players alike. He also started three comedy-basketball teams of his own over the years but none caught on like the Globetrotters. Later in life, he became a minister and motivational speaker. The athlete was forever immortalized in the animated Saturday morning TV show Harlem Globe Trotters, which debuted in the 70s.
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Lemon did more than basketball, and was also in movies, talk shows, and even Scooby Doo.
