The Harlem Globetrotters, An Exhibition Basketball Team

For this assignment I choose to attend a Los Angeles Clippers game even though I am a big Lakers fan; mainly because it better fit into my budget and the appeal of watching this young high flying team made it seem like it was going to be a good night. Going into the game it was being dubbed as the “battle of the double-doubles” as the Minnesota Timberwolves led by Kevin Love and his 28 straight double doubles took on Blake Griffin and his 26 straight double doubles.

The New York colony was the second colony founded after Virginia. To learn more about the New York colony: the history, culture, and leaders of the colony will help picture life in the New York colony. The New York colony was founded in 1626 by the Dutch and was named New Netherlands until the English led by the Duke of York came in 1626, renaming New Netherlands, New York. Colonists from the New Netherlands colony had peaceful relationships with the Native American tribes surrounding the colony. They relied on peaceful relationships in order to make money from the fur trade. The culture and weather in New York was successful.

In the early spring of 1969 a group of Boston community leaders had an idea about creating a city-wide basketball program to both introduce the

The Harlem Rens first established on February 13, 1923, by Robert “Bob” Douglas, the owner and coach of the team, and also known as the “Father of Black Professional Basketball”. By creating an agreement with the owner of the Harlem Renaissance Casino and Ballroom, Douglas was able to secure the ballroom as the location for the team’s home court. As a result, the first professional African American basketball team was created, and because they were the only non-white basketball

The game of basketball, credited to Dr. James Naismith, began in Massachusetts, but what about

In 1845, Alexander J. Cartwright, an amateur player, organized a club in NYC and set down rules that used features of an English sport called rounder. Then five years later, 50 baseball clubs had risen up in the US. New York owned 12 clubs of their own in the mid 1860’s. The team Cincinnati Red Stocking started to tour the country in 1869. Soon more and more clubs started to do the same. This lead to the formation of the National League in 1876 and the American League in 1900. In 1903 the first World Series was help and the Boston Pilgrims beat the Pittsburgh, Pirates. Some African American baseball players were denied from both leagues, so they would form their own clubs and two leagues. These two leagues were the Negro National League and

In 1947, Florida State University named itself the Seminoles. They did this in order to show the strength of and the pride in the Seminole heritage of Florida. Contributions of a lesser known African American, John Horse, helped to define the Seminole people as the “unconquered people” that they are so celebrated for in Florida today.

Nicholas Andrade 1/9/18 Period 4 Washington Generals The Washington Generals are an American exhibition basketball team. This basketball team is best known for their losing streak against their nemesis The Harlem Globetrotters. The Washington Generals team’s coach was Louis “Red” Klotz and was also a player of his team.

The Famous Five were a group of

This time the Globetrotters had their sights set on revenging last year's loss to the New York Renaissance; the Globetrotters got their revenge when they defeated New York in the semi-finals. The Globetrotters then went on to defeat the Chicago Bruins in overtime to capture their first ever World Basketball Championship. Despite their clowning play, this title provided substance to Saperstein's long-ignored claim that given the opportunity the Globetrotters were among basketballs best.

Basketball became an international phenomenon and blew up in popularity due to graduates of the ymca spreading the sport and it's fun, simple, and easy to learn nature leading it to be played across the country in the 1930s.

Albany bigs would double Jameel Warney down low, while more often than not there would be 4 total Albany players in the paint.

These great numbers of blacks along with economic aggressive black businessmen is how Harlem's newly developed real estate was seized from the white middle-class and was converted into the biggest and most elegant black community in the Western world (Huggins p.14). With this acquisition, Harlem had become a great concentration of blacks from all over the country within the most urbane of American cities (New York) just feeling its youthful strength and posturing in self-conscious sophistication. The growth and flourishing of Harlem came at just the right time for black Americans to rekindle dreams of innocence and a new start in America . An essay written by one of Harlem's most prominent leaders Alaine Locke stated that "without pretense to their political significance, Harlem had the same role to play for the New Negro as Dublin has had for the New Ireland or Prague for the New Czechoslovakia."(Knopf p.115). This idea spread like wildfire causing Harlem to be viewed by many as the "black metropolis or mecca".

Butler University founded their Men’s Basketball team as early as 1892, but no results of how well these early teams played

Additionally, as new teams are created and teams are relocated, teams have the opportunity to create their own identity. One example of this is the Brooklyn Nets, who rather than trying to establish their identity through excellent play on the court, have been working hard to identify strongly with the borough of Brooklyn, giving their fans the appearance of being true to Brooklyn. Brett Yormark, the chief executive of the Brooklyn Nets said, “We Brooklyn-ized who we are, which I think is critical. The goal is to become a lifestyle brand”. Because of this, fans of the Brooklyn Nets take on a group identity representative of the culture that is prominent in Brooklyn. The newest example of a team choosing their identity is