Larry 'Gator' Rivers, Harlem Globetrotter legend from Georgia, dies at 73
article SAVANNAH, Ga. - Larry "Gator" Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters an...
article SAVANNAH, Ga. - Larry "Gator" Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died Saturday at age 73. Rivers died from cancer, Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis told the Savannah Morning News. Campbell and Sons Funeral Home said Rivers died at a hospital in Savannah. Rivers was a sophomore on the all-Black Beach High School team that won the first Georgia High School Association basketball tournament to include Black and white players in 1967.