Basketball Legend Rivers, Longtime Globetrotter, Dies at 73

Basketball Legend Rivers, Longtime Globetrotter, Dies at 73
Larry "Gator" Rivers, a member of the Chatham County Commission and a former Harlem Globetrotter, shows off his ball handling skills as he rides in the annual Veterans Day Parade in Savannah, Ga., on Nov. 11, 2021. Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News via AP
The Associated Press
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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.