Isn’t it amazing about some of the things you didn’t know …
While covering the Herman Schayes Memorial Basketball Tournaent in the new Yates Pavillion on the camous of Kent Denver in Cherry Hills Village, I happened across the coolest little factoid that’s actually large.
The tournament is put on by the Sun Devils and coach Todd Schayes, son of Herman and part of an historic basketball family.
But there it was right in the tourney’s program — Herman Schayes played for the Washington Generals.
Yep, that’s right, the Washington General, the team that lost regularly to the fabled Harlem Globetrotters. Those guys lost 13,000 times and won only six times as the primary foils of the Globetrotters.
According to Todd Scahyes, Herman, whose, brother, Dolph, was an NBA great, liked to brag that he lost about 2,000 of those games.
Plus, not only did Krusty the Klown of “The Simpsons” fame bet on the Generals “because I thought they were due,” but Post sports copy editor Mike Judson said it may have been the first time the Washington Generals made it into a local prep story.
