Harlem Globetrotters
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basketball team in New York City, New York, USA
Key facts
- Leagues
- Independent
- Founded
- 1926 ; 100 years ago ( 1926 )
- History
- 1926–27: Chicago GlobeTrotters 1928–29: New York Harlem Globetrotters 1929–present: Harlem Globetrotters
- Arena
- Barnstorming team
- Team colors
- Red, white, blue
- Head coach
- "Sweet" Lou Dunbar (coach) Barry Hardy (coach)
- Ownership
- Herschend
- Championships
- 75, including the 1940 WPBT
- Website
- harlemglobetrotters .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- New York City
- Sport
- basketball
- Official website
- www.harlemglobetrotters.com
- Image
- Harlem Globetrotters in Doha.jpg
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- Commons category
- Harlem Globetrotters
- topic's main category
- Category:Harlem Globetrotters
- inception
- 1926-00-00
- category for members of a team
- Category:Harlem Globetrotters players
- social media followers
- 811000
- different from
- Harlem Globetrotters
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Encyclopedic overview
The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, and comedy in their entertaining style of play. Over the years, the Globetrotters have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, 2007–2015, 2017–present) and the New York Nationals (1995–2006). The team's signature song is Brother Bones' whistled version of "Sweet Georgia Brown", and their mascot is an anthropomorphized globe named "Globie". The team is owned by Herschend.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harlem Globetrotters” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.