Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters are one of my favorite entertainers to watch. Not only are they excellent basketball players by themselves, they are also like magicians that turn and twist basketball into a show that is unlike any other. They perform insane shots and also employ some aesthetics that we have talked about earlier. I feel that they use some call and response between them, like they way they pass between each other and when they would use a 4 man line to dunk. Another characteristic that I noticed is that the Globetrotters are flowing and flexible in everything they do. This reminded me of the article that Malone mentions something how black dance is flexible because it is matching the defense mechanisms of African Americans at the time, as in they are flexible and can deal with different problems in life easily. So I thought that the Globetrotters had a little bit of that flexibility Malone was talking about. Overall, awesome entertainers.