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Also known as Globetrotters, Globe Trotters

basketball team in New York City, New York, USA

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Harlem Globetrotters appears in Vinony's Hollywood Walk of Fame collection — one of 2,437 entries.

Within Vinony's link graph, Harlem Globetrotters is referenced by 1,760 other articles, and connects out to Nathaniel Clifton, Vassar College and Yeshiva University.

It is catalogued under topics including 1926 establishments in Illinois, Basketball teams established in 1926 and Basketball teams in Chicago.

Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.

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

Headquarters
New York City
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
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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.

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