Meadowlark Lemon
Meadowlark Lemon was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States on April 25th, 1932 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 83, Meadowlark Lemon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Meadow Lemon III (April 25, 1932 – December 27, 2015), also known as Meadowlark Lemon, was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister (ordained in 1986).
He worked with Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona, beginning in 1994.
He was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team for 22 years.
He appeared in over 16,000 games for the Globetrotters and was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. "For me, Meadowlark Lemon" would be the best player of all time," basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain said when asked his opinion on the best player of all time. Michael Jordan, a Wilmington native, called Lemon a "true national treasure" and a personal inspiration in Jordan's youth.
Early life
Lemon was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, and attended Williston Industrial School, graduating in 1952. He then matriculated at Florida A&M University, but he was immediately recruited into the United States Army and served for two years in Austria and West Germany.
Personal life
Lemon had ten children: Richard, George, Beverly, Donna, Robin, Jon, Jonathan, Jamison, Angela, Crystal, and Caleb.
Lemon, a born-again Christian, became an ordained minister in 1986 and graduated with a Doctor of Divinity degree from Vision International University in Ramona, California. In several Gaither Homecoming videos, he was also featured as a gospel performer. He took up residence in Scottsdale, where his Meadowlark Lemon Ministries, Inc., is based.
Career
Lemon made his first basketball hoop out of an onion sack and coat hanger by using a empty Carnation milk can sink his first 2-point hoop.
Lemon joined the Globetrotters in 1954 at the age of 22, eventually being chosen to play in 1955. In 1980, he started to form the Bucketeers, one of his Globetrotters imitators. He played with the squad until 1983, then went on to play with the Shooting Stars from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he joined the Harlem All Stars team of "Meadowlark Lemon." Despite being with his own touring company, Lemon returned to the Globetrotters, playing 50 games with them in 1994.
Lemon was voted the John Bunn Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame outside of induction. In 2003, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
An animated version of Lemon, narrated by Scatman Crothers, appeared alongside numerous other Globetrotters in the Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series Harlem Globetrotters, as well as its spinoff, The Super Globetrotters. The animated Globetrotters appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies for three years.
Lemon appeared alongside Fred "Curly" Neal, Marques Haynes, and his other fellow Globetrotters in a live-action television show called The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine in 1974–1975, which also included Rodney Allen Rippy and Avery Schreiber.
Lemon appeared in a memorable Burger King commercial in 1978 by building a tower of burgers before finding a double-beef pickles and onions with no cheese.
Lemon appeared in an episode of the NBC television anthology series $weepstake $.
Lemon appeared as the head coach of the basketball team from The White Shadow in a series of guest skits for Order/Disorder Week on 3-2-1 Contact in 1980.
Lemon appeared in a Charmin toilet paper commercial with actor Dick Wilson in 1983.
Meadowlark Lemon, Brain's best friend in the parody of Brian's Song in 1996, was "Brain's Song."
The name of Meadowlark, which Ed Wuncler I mentioned as the park's name in 2006, was used on an episode of adult swim's "The Itis."
The name Meadowlark Lemon was used for a dog's name in 2009, as a pet for Rallo Tubbs on FOX's TV show The Cleveland Show. In the second episode, the dog died.
Lemon appeared in the educational geography film Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World in 1979. He appeared on the cast of the short-lived television sitcom Hello, Larry in season two in 1979 to help raise the show's ratings. He appeared in Rev.'s first year as well as Rev.'s in the same year. Grady Jackson appears in the film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. It was several years before he became an ordained minister himself.
He wrote a song called "My Kids" by Dalton & Dubarri, which was released by the artist and Dubarri. Dubarri produced the album and was released on Casablanca NB 969 in March, 1979. It was named Top 40 by the reviewer in the Cash Box Singles to Watch section.
Lemon was featured in the Grammy-nominated video Fun & Games, an interactive educational film produced by Optical Programming Associates and Scholastic Productions, on the then-emerging LaserDisc format in 1982.
Lemon was featured in a Nickelodeon episode "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" in 1994. "You know, in a matter of seconds, we're all going to be famous like Meadowlark Lemon," one of the characters said.