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TIL the exhibition team that travels with Harlem Globetrotters actually won, once. “The Globetrotters lost track of the game and the score. Down 12 points with two minutes left to go. Forced to play normal basketball, they rallied but could not recover […] The crowd was dumbfounded.”

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