Harlem Globetrotters Tour 2023 | Basketball and magic at the Palau de Son Moix

The eternal New York team, which in 1926 will celebrate a century of life, stopped in Palma to stage one of the episodes of a tour that has circulated throughout Tenerife, Barcelona, ​​Valencia y Madrid and that, after his stop in Mallorca, he will travel this Wednesday to A Coruña to continue later, without rest, for Vitoria, Tarragona, Malaga y Sevilla. Ten days, ten cities.

Accompanied by their characteristic tricolor ball —blue, white and red— and with the Washington Generals Exerting as the villains of the show, the Globetrotters began to raise the public from the warm-up. Embedded between the stands, the base Speedy Artisthe smallest of the entire squad, kept up the tension trying to score from the stands while some of his teammates pulled the classic juggling to warm up the atmosphere and regulate a temperature that would end up rising completely the music, the dances of the protagonists and Globethe first of the pets to be seen at a party that his older brother would later join, Big G.

The game was already getting off to a heated start. The microphones incorporated into the shirts of some players were used to fly the first darts from one side of the field to the other and to Thunder Lawhe showman of the group, officially presented himself before an audience in which bags of popcorn and giant palm trees with LeBron James or Pau Gasol shirts and emblems of multiple clubs on the Island coexisted. Thunder gave it his all. Whether it was asking a follower from the front row to dance, provoking the closest children or taking the shoe from some clueless spectator who, in order to recover it, had to win it in the middle of a track where there was another classic brand in the matches of the Harlem: the four point line.

Directed by the coach At Clocker, the Globetrotters soon marked territory against the Generals. The spectacular mates of Prime Time Moore y Baller Mossthe somersaults of Flip Whitelas skills of Moose Weekes y Turbo Porter-Bunton or the chained triples of Kayla Gabor, one of the two women from the team that presented in Palma —the other was Ace Porter— tilted the score towards a legendary formation that gave the little ones a show that they will surely not forget in their lives. In his head, as in that of all those who once vibrated with them, the Globetrotters will always be eternal.