{"id":975079,"date":"2022-02-03T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/watch-harlem-globetrotters-attempt-22-guinness-records-break-18\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:31:25","slug":"watch-harlem-globetrotters-attempt-22-guinness-records-break-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/watch-harlem-globetrotters-attempt-22-guinness-records-break-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Harlem Globetrotters attempt 22 Guinness records, break 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Harlem-Globetrotters-attempt-22-Guinness-records-break-18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"sYFsUcker4s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS SET 18 NEW WORLD RECORDS - Guinness World Records\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYFsUcker4s?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The Harlem Globetrotters paid tribute to a former player by attempting 22 Guinness World Records in two days &#8212; and successfully broke 18 of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Globetrotters said they decided to begin 2022 by attempting 22 records in two days to honor Frederick &#8220;Curly&#8221; Neal, who played 22 seasons with the team while wearing No. 22 on his jersey.\n<\/p>\n<p>Neal died in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the pandemic, we didn&#8217;t get a chance to give Curly the send-off that he deserved, [and] what better way to honor him than to attempt 22 records in his name. I hope he is looking down and smiling, like he always is,&#8221; Globetrotter Julian &#8220;Zeus&#8221; McClurkin told Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<p>Player Rock &#8220;Wham&#8221; Middleton set one of the records, most basketball bounces in one minute, when slow-motion video footage confirmed he had completed 762 bounces in the allotted time.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton also broke the records for most basketball underhanded half-court shots in one minute, 7; farthest basketball hook shot, 74 feet and 9.74 inches; fastest time between baselines dribbling a basketball, 3.529 seconds; and most basketball bounces between the legs in one minute, 360.<\/p>\n<p>Teammate Pawel &#8220;Dazzle&#8221; Kidon, the first Harlem Globetrotter from Poland, broke the record for most consecutive catches of a spinning basketball, managing 26.\n<\/p>\n<p>Other records broken by the team during the two-day event include farthest basketball off-the-wall bounce shot, farthest behind-the-back basketball alley-oop slam dunk, most basketball alley-oop slam dunks in one minute and most consecutive basketball alley-oop slam dunks.<\/p>\n<p>Also, farthest under the legs basketball shot, farthest windmill basketball shot, most basketball layups in one minute, most blindfolded basketball slam dunks in one minute and most basketball 3-pointers made by a pair in one minute.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212; The Harlem Globetrotters paid tribute to a former player by attempting 22 Guinness World Records in two days &#8212; and successfully broke 18 of them. The Globetrotters said they decided to begin 2022 by attempting 22 records in two days to honor Frederick &#8220;Curly&#8221; Neal, who played 22 seasons with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}