Meadowlark Lemon Dead at 83

[oldgraylady]

www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/sports/basketball/meadowlark-lemon-harlem-globetrotter-who-played-basketball-and-pranks-with-virtuosity-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

[oujour76]

Dec 28, 2015 12:02:40 GMT -5 oldgraylady said:

www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/sports/basketball/meadowlark-lemon-harlem-globetrotter-who-played-basketball-and-pranks-with-virtuosity-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

RIP. He was a good guy...I worked with him and his PR guy a few years back helping him sell his book called "Trust Your Next Shot."

[mscott59]

Dec 28, 2015 12:34:51 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Dec 28, 2015 12:02:40 GMT -5 oldgraylady said:

www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/sports/basketball/meadowlark-lemon-harlem-globetrotter-who-played-basketball-and-pranks-with-virtuosity-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

RIP. He was a good guy...I worked with him and his PR guy a few years back helping him sell his book called "Trust Your Next Shot."

would love to hear some stories about that. very sorry to learn of lemon's passing. by the time i was old enough in the late 60s to start understanding sports he was already in his mid to late 30s, but the memories of watching him and curly neal and the rest of the trotters have fun while still displaying their incredible athletic ability (half court hook shots? first time i tried that i thought i'd torn my rotator cuff-lol-let alone come close to making the shot) are very very good ones.

[Walter]

Dec 28, 2015 14:56:24 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Dec 28, 2015 12:34:51 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

RIP. He was a good guy...I worked with him and his PR guy a few years back helping him sell his book called "Trust Your Next Shot."

would love to hear some stories about that. very sorry to learn of lemon's passing. by the time i was old enough in the late 60s to start understanding sports he was already in his mid to late 30s, but the memories of watching him and curly neal and the rest of the trotters have fun while still displaying their incredible athletic ability (half court hook shots? first time i tried that i thought i'd torn my rotator cuff-lol-let alone come close to making the shot) are very very good ones.

The first few times I saw the Trotters, I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I thought it was real basketball. I was transfixed by their moves and how they toyed with and demolished the Generals. To that little kid, they were a marvel; by far the greatest basketball players in the world.
After growing up, I discovered that, at the time, they actually may have really BEEN the best basketball players in the world.

Now that I wrote that....didn't the Trotters actually play an exhibition or two against NBA teams?
Seems to me they did.

[mscott59]

Dec 28, 2015 20:42:39 GMT -5 Walter said:

Dec 28, 2015 14:56:24 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

would love to hear some stories about that. very sorry to learn of lemon's passing. by the time i was old enough in the late 60s to start understanding sports he was already in his mid to late 30s, but the memories of watching him and curly neal and the rest of the trotters have fun while still displaying their incredible athletic ability (half court hook shots? first time i tried that i thought i'd torn my rotator cuff-lol-let alone come close to making the shot) are very very good ones.

The first few times I saw the Trotters, I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I thought it was real basketball. I was transfixed by their moves and how they toyed with and demolished the Generals. To that little kid, they were a marvel; by far the greatest basketball players in the world.
After growing up, I discovered that, at the time, they actually may have really BEEN the best basketball players in the world.

Now that I wrote that....didn't the Trotters actually play an exhibition or two against NBA teams?
Seems to me they did.

back in the late 40s they played, and beat, the minneapolis lakers, who went on to win the nba that year. a lot of folks credit that game with helping break the color barrier in pro hoops.

[mscott59]

Dec 28, 2015 22:12:12 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Dec 28, 2015 20:42:39 GMT -5 Walter said:

The first few times I saw the Trotters, I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I thought it was real basketball. I was transfixed by their moves and how they toyed with and demolished the Generals. To that little kid, they were a marvel; by far the greatest basketball players in the world.
After growing up, I discovered that, at the time, they actually may have really BEEN the best basketball players in the world.

Now that I wrote that....didn't the Trotters actually play an exhibition or two against NBA teams?
Seems to me they did.

back in the late 40s they played, and beat, the minneapolis lakers, who went on to win the nba that year. a lot of folks credit that game with helping break the color barrier in pro hoops.

Btw the trotters are actually in Ohio right now. Played in Cleveland last night and are doing 2 games here at OSU today/tonite.