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Larry ‘Gator’ Rivers, Longtime Harlem Globetrotter, Dies at 73

‘HOMETOWN LEGEND’

Before joining the famed exhibition team, Larry ‘Gator’ Rivers helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia in the 1960s.

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