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BECAUSE YR NOT REALLY A GLOBETROTTER TIL YOU'VE OPENED AN OFFICE IN BEIJING
I get press releases.
Sometimes they’re about fake basketball teams.
No surprise, in a way – after all, basketball has a respectable following in China, thanks to Yao Ming going pro. And hey, they’re called the Globetrotters for a reason, I guess.
BACKGROUND: Like a lot of people my age, I first learned about them via Saturday morning cartoons. Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal were a part of my pop-culture landscape. They never made me want to pick up a basketball beyond some backyard hoop-chaw (as we call it in Tennessee), but they were a whole lotta fun to watch.
And even then, I had no idea the team had been around since the late 1920s. And they were actually from Chicago, not Harlem.
The things you learn about yr pop-culture past.
FUN FACT: Henry Kissinger is an honorary Globetrotter. Make of that what you will.
ANOTHER FUN FACT: The Globetrotters’ theme music is “Sweet Georgia Brown” by Brother Bones.
Sometimes they’re about fake basketball teams.
No surprise, in a way – after all, basketball has a respectable following in China, thanks to Yao Ming going pro. And hey, they’re called the Globetrotters for a reason, I guess.
BACKGROUND: Like a lot of people my age, I first learned about them via Saturday morning cartoons. Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal were a part of my pop-culture landscape. They never made me want to pick up a basketball beyond some backyard hoop-chaw (as we call it in Tennessee), but they were a whole lotta fun to watch.
And even then, I had no idea the team had been around since the late 1920s. And they were actually from Chicago, not Harlem.
The things you learn about yr pop-culture past.
FUN FACT: Henry Kissinger is an honorary Globetrotter. Make of that what you will.
ANOTHER FUN FACT: The Globetrotters’ theme music is “Sweet Georgia Brown” by Brother Bones.
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