Lemon enraptured audiences with half-court hook shots, constant on-court chatter, stunts like handing out hot pretzels to Madison Square Garden referees (mid-game no less), and most of all his ball-handling skills and wizard-like passing.
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Lemon left the Globetrotters in 1978 over a contract dispute and formed his own traveling teams – the Meadowlark Lemon’s Bucketeers, the Shooting Stars and Meadowlark Lemon’s Harlem All-Stars. Between 1983 and 1994, he joined and created a variety of different teams before heading back to play for the Globetrotters.
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ROSE: Still, Meadowlark Lemon insisted Globetrotters were more than just court jesters, as he told NPR in 2001. “It’s been wonderful”, Lemon said at his Hall of Fame induction speech in 2003. The basketball icon died Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Meadowlark has played basketball before Kings, Queens, Presidents, Popes, and for millions of fans all over the World!
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“Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I’ve ever seen”, NBA great and former Globetrotter Wilt Chamberlain said shortly before his death in 1999.
But the squad in red, white and blue uniforms had also been a thriving professional team, once winning the World Professional Basketball Tournament before the rise of the National Basketball Association. The athlete was forever immortalized in the animated Saturday morning TV show Harlem Globe Trotters, which debuted in the 70s.
“I met him many years ago when I was a player”, said Wilkens on Monday in Seattle, hours after hearing the news.
Basketball Hall of Famer Meadowlark Lemon has died. “I was receiving a dream in my heart”. He also became an ordained minister in 1998.
When Dr. James Naismith was pulling that basketball out of the peach basket many years ago in Kansas, it was simply impossible that he could envision the growth and popularity of the game today.
Lemon is survived by his wife and 10 children.
“Meadowlark was a committed Globetrotter”, said Mitchell, who last talked to Lemon four to five years ago.
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He was the nucleus of a Globetrotters team that became so big, it had its own cartoon in the 1970s.
