Meadow Lemon (April 25, 1932 – December 27, 2015) was an American
basketball player, actor, and
Christian minister (ordained in 1986). From 1994, he served Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in
Scottsdale, Arizona. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring
Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He played in more than 16,000 games for the Globetrotters and was a 2003 inductee into the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. When basketball legend
Wilt Chamberlain was asked his opinion on the best player of all time, he responded, "For me it would be Meadowlark Lemon." Fellow Wilmington great
Michael Jordan called Lemon a "true national treasure" and a personal inspiration in Jordan's youth.