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Phoenix (AFP) - Marques Haynes, whose incredible skills dribbling a basketball made him a legendary showman with the Harlem Globetrotters, died Friday of natural causes in Plano, Texas, the team announced. He was 89.
Haynes played in more than 12,000 games in almost 100 countries for the Globetrotters during a 46-year career and was the team's first player to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, an honor he received in 1998.
His elusiveness with the ball would confuse and confound opponents, epic ballhandling that fit well with the comedic style of the Globetrotters, whom he played for from 1947-1953 and again from 1972-1979.