Similar to Scooby-Doo and all its clones, this animated series featured a group driving around and getting into adventures. Not counting the semi-serious 1951 sports drama The Harlem Globetrotters (starring "Pop" Gates, "Babe" Pressley, and "Goose" Tatum as themselves), the squad stormed onto screens with its fun and wacky vibe intact on the 1970-73 CBS Saturday morning cartoon Harlem Globetrotters.
African-Americans Chuck Cooper and Earl Lloyd were both drafted in 1950, while the New York Knicks signed Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Globetrotters' center. As a direct result of those two games, the NBA opened up to non-white athletes.
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A year later, the Globetrotters would best the all-white Lakers once more.īeating a major pro squad made African-American players both undeniable and attractive to what were by then NBA owners. As time ran out, the Globetrotters' Elmer Robinson sank a deep shot, giving his team a 61 to 59 victory. Globetrotters coach Abe Saperstein ordered his players to contain Mikan by double-teaming him, an effort that held the center to just nine more points and which resulted in a score tied at 59-59 with 90 seconds remaining.
Before that day, the Globetrotters had won 102 games in a row, but the Lakers proved formidable, leading 32 to 23 at halftime. More than 17,000 basketball fans showed up to watch the showdown between the Globetrotters and the Lakers, with their star rookie George Mikan on the court.
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