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Harlem Globetrotters |
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Harlem GlobetrottersAfrican American professional basketball team. The team was organized in 1927 in Chicago by the promoter Abe Saperstein and initially was a competitive team that won a world professional championship in 1940. Since the 1930s the team had incorporated comic routines into their games, and, with the integration of the NBA in the 1950s, the team increasingly emphasized comedy over competition. For the next 50 years the Globetrotters played exhibition games all over the world, displaying spectacular ball handling and humorous antics and always defeating their official opposition, the Washington Generals. In the mid-1990s the team returned to playing competitive games. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But in stretches of Game 4 of their first-round series against the Denver Nuggets, things looked easy - Harlem Globetrotter easy. Out archivists Jenni Olson and Karl Bruce Knapper's collection of black-themed trailers from the '40s to the '70s covers all, from The Harlem Globetrotters to Foxy Brown (above). On the other hand, he mentions Harlem Globetrotter defenders such as Jesse Jackson who is quoted in 1978 as saying, "I think they've been a positive influence . |
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