MEADOWLARK LEMON – UNDISCLOSED

Meadowlark Lemon was a former basketball player and Christian minister in Scottsdale, Arizona. He became a world-class performer with the help of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, which he was a part of for more than two decades. Even some of the greatest athletes in the sport give credit to Lemon. Wilt Chamberlain once said that he’s the best basketball player of all time and the G.O.A.T, Michael Jordan himself, described him as a real national treasure.

Outside of basketball, Meadowlark Lemon also busied himself with TV and film appearances. From 1974 until 1975, Meadowlark appeared in the TV show The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine alongside Avery Schreiber and Rodney Alley Rippy. Then in 1979, he had a brief TV stint in the sitcom Hello, Larry. On December 27, 2015, media outlets reported Lemon’s death. He passed away at 83 years old. Many of his paid tribute to him, and Lemon was given the highest honors possible in the world of sport.