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| Subject: Can’t Win ’Em All? Globetrotters Come Close Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:04 pm | |
| Lou Dunbar seems happy. He smiles a lot. He laughs constantly. He claims that his job has never felt like a job because he enjoys it too much. And it all begins to make sense once you consider that Dunbar, who goes by Sweet Lou, is the winningest basketball coach in the world. “Well,” Dunbar said as he mulled his career record, “I know I’m undefeated.” Dunbar, 61, coaches the Harlem Globetrotters, who made their way to Blue Cross Arena on a blustery night late last month to tackle a familiar foe, the Washington Generals. Few people have deeper connections to the Globetrotters than Dunbar, who has spent the past 40 years with the organization — the first 24 as one of the team’s fast-talking stars, more recently as its head coach and director of player development. An hour before tipoff in Rochester, Dunbar acknowledged that he liked his team’s chances. He cited the Globetrotters’ 15,071-game winning streak, dating to 1971, against traveling opponents like the Generals. Dunbar, who favors tailored suits and buckets full of confetti, was asked if he ever felt sorry for his hapless rivals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/sports/basketball/globetrotters-say-you-can-win-them-all.html?partner=rss&emc=rss |
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