Harlem Globetrotters vs. ________ (1 Viewer)

[Tom Servo]

Just wondering how well you think they'd do in competition against some of basketball's best. I did not include the WNBA champs (whomever they are) since that would devolve into an argument about men's vs. women's bball, etc.

If the Globetrotters are playing Golden State, it's NBA rules. If they're playing Duke or the Pointers, it's NCAA rules.

And..go!

 

[Capella]

Lol at playing golden state

 

[AcerFC]

This is shtick right

 

[Fennis]

Globetrotters cant have college eligibility left

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Dead Meadowlark or live Meadowlark?

 

[Fennis]

what are the NCAA rules for honorary members?

Honorary membersThese nine people have been officially named as honorary members by the team:[40]

• Henry Kissinger (1976)
• Bob Hope (1977)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1989)
• Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
• Nelson Mandela (1996)
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1999)
• Pope John Paul II (2000) – Press agent Lee Solters arranged a ceremony orchestrated in front of a crowd of 50,000 in Saint Peter's Square in which the Pope was recognized as an honorary Globetrotter.[41]
• Jesse Jackson (2001)
• Pope Francis (2015)[42]

In addition, Magic Johnson (in 2003) was signed to $1 a year lifetime contract with the Globetrotters.[43][44] In 2009, the Globetrotters drafted Tim Howard, the goalkeeper for the U.S. national soccer team and a former basketball player, to be an ambassador for the club.

 

[joffer]

mini-Ditkas

 

[fantasycurse42]

Need to know where the games are being played before making any type of judgement here.

 

[The General]

Steph Curry couldn't handle the Confetti Bucket trick.

 

[The General]

what are the NCAA rules for honorary members?

Honorary members

These nine people have been officially named as honorary members by the team:[40]

• Henry Kissinger (1976)
• Bob Hope (1977)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1989)
• Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
• Nelson Mandela (1996)
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1999)
• Pope John Paul II (2000) Press agent Lee Solters arranged a ceremony orchestrated in front of a crowd of 50,000 in Saint Peter's Square in which the Pope was recognized as an honorary Globetrotter.[41]
• Jesse Jackson (2001)
• Pope Francis (2015)[42]

In addition, Magic Johnson (in 2003) was signed to $1 a year lifetime contract with the Globetrotters.[43][44] In 2009, the Globetrotters drafted Tim Howard, the goalkeeper for the U.S. national soccer team and a former basketball player, to be an ambassador for the club.

I saw Pope John Paul break Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan's ankles on a sick step back cross over. True story.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Dead Meadowlark or live Meadowlark?

How about one of each?

 

[Mors Venit]

What kind of wood is the court made of? Did any of the opposing players go out partying the night before?

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Who are the refs?

 

[Mors Venit]

Shot clock can't be used.

Going to be a long game. I guarantee you Bob Hope is a ball hog.

 

[Max Power]

Beat Duke. Lose to the Pointers

 

[-fish-]

beat the Lakers, but only if Kobe is playing.

 

[Tom Servo]

Who are the refs?

These guys.

 

[Bob Magaw]

what are the NCAA rules for honorary members?

Honorary members

These nine people have been officially named as honorary members by the team:[40]

• Henry Kissinger (1976)
• Bob Hope (1977)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1989)
• Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
• Nelson Mandela (1996)
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1999)
• Pope John Paul II (2000) Press agent Lee Solters arranged a ceremony orchestrated in front of a crowd of 50,000 in Saint Peter's Square in which the Pope was recognized as an honorary Globetrotter.[41]
• Jesse Jackson (2001)
• Pope Francis (2015)[42]

In addition, Magic Johnson (in 2003) was signed to $1 a year lifetime contract with the Globetrotters.[43][44] In 2009, the Globetrotters drafted Tim Howard, the goalkeeper for the U.S. national soccer team and a former basketball player, to be an ambassador for the club.

I saw Pope John Paul break Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan's ankles on a sick step back cross over. True story.

One time in a celebrity all star game Nique was in the middle of a spectacular 360 windmill dunk from the free throw line, when Kissinger did a flip from the top of the key, impromptu snatched it from his teammate and threw it down, hanging on to the rim so he could do a BACK FLIP over the backboard and stick the landing. True story.

 

[dickey moe]

Harlem alltime greats vs. 76ers would be decent shtick.

 

[jon_mx]

With the three-point rule, that half-court hook shot is money.

 

[Tom Servo]

This is shtick right

Maybe...

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Why don't those teams have to play by the Globetrotter's rules?

 

[Mors Venit]

Why don't those teams have to play by the Globetrotter's rules?

what are globetrotter rules?

the same rules governing Lebrons game?

 

[JuniorNB]

beat the Lakers, but only if Kobe is playing.

I can't imagine Kobe reacting well to the basketball-on-a-string free throw trick

 

[Doug B]

I know this thread is schticky, but it's interesting to take a look back at the Globetrotters' late-1940s history, and their rivalry with George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers.

 

[Fennis]

I know this thread is schticky, but it's interesting to take a look back at the Globetrotters' late-1940s history, and their rivalry with George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers.

You can also look at exhibition games in the 2000s.

Great college teams can't even beat the Harlem Globetrotters

defending national champion Syracuse Orange. And it wasn't just any pro team -- it was the Harlem Globetrotters, a barnstorming squad best known for doing basketball tricks in exhibition games against a fake team paid to lose. The Globetrotters are real basketball players, but the squad is comprised of players who couldn't find NBA jobs or high-paying European gigs in more serious leagues.

And the Globetrotters didn't just win: they won comfortably, taking a 17-point lead in the first half.

The Globetrotters did lose to college teams -- they went 7-1 in the year they beat Cuse, with a loss to Billy Gillespie's UTEP, and dropped a game to Michigan State when they were defending champions in 2000. But in 2004, the NCAA outlawed the Globetrotters' exhibition games against college teams, in part because a) blah blah blah amateurism b) it looks bad when your best teams lose games to a team that spends 350 days a year dedicated to throwing buckets of confetti and pantsing their opponents.

 

[Doug B]

Good links, Fennis. Somehow missed those more recent exhibition performances.