Monday, 1 May 2023

Basketball legend Larry 'Gator' Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, has died at 73

Larry "Gator" Rivers, a member of the Chatham County Commission and a former Harlem Globetrotter, shows off his ball handling skills as he rides in the annual Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11, 2021 in Savannah, Ga.

Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died on Saturday.

(Image credit: Richard Burkhart/AP)



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