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Meadowlark Lemon Net Worth: $2 Million

Meadowlark Lemon was an American basketball player, actor, and minister who was best known for touring with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team under the nickname, the “Clown Prince of Basketball.” He played in more than 16,000 games for the Harlem Globetrotters and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.

Lemon was born on April 25, 1932, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and attended Florida A&M University. He first applied to the Globetrotters in 1954, at the age of 22, and began playing the following year.

Despite being with his own touring team, Lemon returned to the Globetrotters in 1994, playing 50 games with them. In addition to his career in basketball, Lemon also starred in a few television shows and was featured in the Grammy-nominated video, The First National Kidisc, an educational, interactive video.

Lemon is a born-again Christian and an ordained minister. He had 10 children with his wife, Dr. Cynthia Lemon.

Meadowlark Lemon died on December 27, 2015, at the age of 83.

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