#SWEET J HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS PROFESSIONAL#

The Harlem Globetrotters® are legendary worldwide, synonymous with one-of-a-kind family entertainment and great basketball skills for the past 92 years.

In the course of a little over one year, he amassed a following of more than 200,000 followers – including Drake. Crutchfield began building his reputation on Instagram for his hops in November of 2016, where he can be seen making spectacular dunks, clean jumps over 23-feet wide roads, midsized sedans, and leaping to the top of vending machines that stand 6 feet tall. The native of Greenville, N.C., became a two-time National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All American in the long jump, earned fourth place at the NJCAA Championship (7.34m) and jumped his personal best at 7.55 meters prior to heading into the NJCAA Division I Outdoor Championships in 2018. Like his teammate Torch George, Crutchfield joins the Globetrotters after a collegiate career at Iowa Western Community College where he was part of the men’s track and field team. Five-foot-eight Dexton “Bounce” Crutchfield joins the Globetrotters after building his reputation across the internet and national news outlets for his insane ability to leap over almost anything. I think it is great that the Globetrotters have women on their squad.Brooks is not the only rookie Globetrotter to have taken such an unconventional route to the roster. It is also about extolling those things that men excel at and minimizing things where women excel. But sexism in a culture isn’t just or even primarily about explicit exclusion of women. And I understand: the Globetrotters are in a position to do this in a way that the Lakers are not. The first female Harlem Globetrotter was Lynette Woodard, who joined the team in 1985 - almost 30 years ago. Unless women are dressed in bikinis, most men are not too interested in watching them play sports. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course but for something that obsesses a bunch of ostensibly straight men, it seems weird.

#SWEET J HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS PROFESSIONAL#

I’ve always found professional spots to be awfully homoerotic. This season, the Globetrotters added Joyce “Sweet J” Ekworomadu, who towers over the others at 5'10'. And there have been only three that were 5'6' or less. There have only been 24 players who were 5'9' or less in the 68 year history of the NBA. I know that small men do occasionally play in the NBA, but this is still remarkable.

They also have Tammy “T-Time” Brawner, who is only 5'5'. But Fatima isn’t the only woman on the current Harlem Globetrotters. See if you don’t notice something:Īrsenio Hall isn’t that tall! Fatima is tiny - Shorter than I am! - just 5'6'. At that time, the most recent female player was Fatima “TNT” Maddox. I had no idea that the Globetrotters had ever had women on their team - much less nine of them. The reason I bring this up is that I came upon an article, Female Globetrotters - 9 Women Who Have Worn the Red, White, and Blue. But it indicates that for most people, basketball doesn’t provide a whole lot of entertainment value. That strikes me the same as reading a book to find out what happened. I remember a roommate telling me that he didn’t see the point of watching a whole basketball game, when you could get everything out of it by watching the last three minutes. So they are able to diversify their roster. The Globetrotters don’t have this problem. So it doesn’t matter how good someone like Luis Da Silva might be at a particular part of the game. That means that the teams will be filled with not just the best players but the best players of the specific kind of game that is played in the NBA. The problem with the NBA is that the purpose of each team is to win. This is a problem with professional sports generally: all the players are so great that the exposition of talent doesn’t show much. Compare that to the NBA, which really provides damned little entertainment value. They are entertainers and they’ve managed to spice up the act of a basketball game so that it has a much higher entertainment value. Now I don’t especially care what they do on the court, but I find their business model fascinating. When I was a kid, I loved the Harlem Globetrotters.

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