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Ever see them play?

On on TV for me. They trounced the Hollywood AllStars,

Pat Boone playing some.


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When I was a youngster my dad coached my basketball team for several years and he’d work overtime so that he could swing the tickets for the entire team. I saw them several times back then and it was always fun.


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Met Meadowlark Lemon. Very nice Christian man.

Got Wilt Chamberlain's autograph. He played with them too.


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I watched them as a kid when they came to town..twin city's, MN


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bu then I went to donkey basketball plenty of times to ....


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Meadowlark Lemon probably got a hellified speeding ticket on i-75 in N. Florida. He sucked our headlights out, then about 10 miles up the road FHP had him pulled over.

Pretty sure it was him, pimped/out El Dorado, gold rims, BFN driving, license plate some chit like MDWLRK on it. Had to be him.

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I saw them a couple times as a kid. I saw Meadowlark one time when he was with the Harlem Allstars.


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Never heard of em...

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Originally Posted by renegade50
Never heard of em...



You been living under a rock? Or in Salmon, Idaho?

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Some of them came through a place I was employed in about 1987. They were not as big of arseholes as the second string Trailblazers that also did.


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I never got to see them. Are they still around?

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I can never hold political office because I’m sure there’s a picture of me somewhere as a second grader in black face dressed as Meadiwlark Lemon for Halloween.

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ya i saw them with my kids about 10-15 years ago. it was great. they made some amazing shots.


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Watched them play the Washington Generals in the old Pittsburgh Civic Arena a long long time ago. Meadowlark Lemon and the rest of the team put on quite a show. Remember they whistled the Sweet Georgia Brown tune , Great times,


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Never saw them live, only on TV. I did see the King and his Court several times in Royal Oak, MI. They were an impressive fast pitch softball team. I think they only used with 6 players.

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Saw the original HGT's when I was young.

They were something!

I remember Meadowlark Lemon particularly. Curly Neal too.

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Back in the day, I saw them several times in Monroe, La. Meadowlark Lemon and Curly are the only names I remember. Girlfriend and I were setting on about the 2nd or 3rd row, next to the aisle, and the water bucket with paper confetti was thrown on us.

I know a guy that played for the Washington Generals, the road team that played the Globetrotters.

My high school coach was a referee and umpire, and got asked to referee a Globetrotter game. Well he was suppose to let them play, but he started calling 'traveling' and 'carrying the ball', so at half time, the got rid of him.


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My dad (a high scholl basketball star in the 30s) took my brother and me to watch them in the late 60s or early 70s.
Meadowlark, Curley etc were there. I never liked basketball much but those guys were quite the acrobats.

Better story is when I got kicked out a filming of an all star wrassling TV show in 1975.

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My dad (a high scholl basketball star in the 30s) took my brother and me to watch them in the late 60s or early 70s.
Meadowlark, Curley etc were there. I never liked basketball much but those guys were quite the acrobats.

Better story is when I got kicked out a filming of an all star wrassling TV show in 1975.

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I saw them twice, when i was young and when my kids were young in Jonesboro, AR. They were entertaining and could shoot the ball from anywhere.

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