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 the
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, has died.
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Larry “Gator” Rivers helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia, showed his skills to the world as Harlem Globetrotters, and then became a community leader in his native Savannah. He died over the weekend at 73 years old.