Connie Hawkins
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Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins was an American professional basketball player. Hawkins was a legendary high school basketball player in New York City at Boys High School in Brooklyn and at Rucker Pa
Hawkins with the ABA's most valuable player award in 1968
Hawkins in 1962
Hawkins in 1969, with his attorney, Roz Litman, celebrating the settlement of his antitrust case against the NBA
Hawkins as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers
Harlem Globetrotters
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The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, and comedy in their entertaining style of play. Over the years, the Globetrotters have played mo
Connie Hawkins
…27-years old, after years of litigation against the NBA. He had a winding and varied professional playing career in three different leagues and with the Harlem Globetrotters, during which Hawkins excelled at every level; and he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. Nicknamed "the Hawk", his career…
The 1950 World Series Harlem Globetrotters, with owner Abe Saperstein (right) and team secretary W. S. Welch (left)
The Globetrotters' Magic Circle in 2019
Wilt Chamberlain, the first Globetrotter to have his jersey number retired, played for the Globetrotters from 1958 to 1959