Red Klotz - "Washington Generals" & "New Jersey Reds"
10 videos • 798 views • by Don Coleman Louis Herman "Red" Klotz (October 21, 1920 – July 12, 2014) World Champion Red Klotz is a basketball legend was known for the incredible accuracy of his two-handed set-shot. He also built, managed, was a team member & coached the Washington Generals basketball team, that toured with the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters, for many decades. The team beat the Globetrotters. Red Klotz was a 5-foot-7-inch guard on the 1947 Baltimore Bullets team that won the championship of the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the N.B.A. THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS - Basketball Association of America / NBA Championship - 1947-48 Baltimore Bullets. 1942-43 Championship in Philadelphia on the Spha’s team. 1941 freshman Championship team at Villanova University. Along the way, his teams team would also compete as the Boston Shamrocks and New York Nationals, among other names, but at heart they were always the Generals, and always a mirror image of Klotz’s vision for how basketball should be played. “Beating the Globetrotters,” Red Klotz once explained, “is like shooting Santa Claus.” Boston Shamrocks (1971–1972) New Jersey Reds (1971–1972) Baltimore Rockets (1971–1972) Atlantic City Seagulls (1971–1972) New York Nationals (1995–2006) International Elite (2011–2012) Global Select (2011–2012) World All-Stars (2013–2014)