Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, has died.
FILE - The Harlem Globetrotters are honored with a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, on Jan. 19, 1982. The Globetrotters became the first athletic team to be honored with a star on the sidewalk. From left are, Billy Hobley, Dallas Thornton, Hubert"Geese" Ausbie, Nate Branch, Fred"Curly" Neal, Robert Paige and Larry Gator Rivers.
Rivers once told WTOC-TV that during his tryout for the Globetrotters, team legend Marques Haynes led Rivers into a closet storing tables and folding chairs, handed Rivers a basketball and said “Let’s see you dribble around this.” Rivers came home to Savannah and got involved in the community, volunteering in schools, promoting the rebuilding of neighborhood basketball courts and opening the non-profit youth mentorship organization Gatorball Academy to teach basketball.
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