Harlem Globetrotters bring tricks, tips to Tacony [video]
Two members of the Harlem Globetrotter’s basketball team walked across the Tacony Palmyra Bridge this afternoon to speak to students at Planet Abacus Charter School.
Teammates Fatima “TNT” Maddox and Brawley “Cheese” Chisholm dribbled and spun pink basketballs from N.J. to Philly to kick off the team’s season-long campaign against breast cancer.
Maddox is a Temple University graduate and the only woman on the Globetrotters. Chisholm was a basketball star at Cherokee High School in Marlton, N.J,. and is called “Chesse” because he never stops smiling.
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