Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar (born April 8, 1953) is the Director of Player Personnel, and a former 27-year veteran basketball

Basketball

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 player for the Harlem Globetrotters

Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater and comedy. The executive offices for the team are currently in downtown Phoenix, Arizona; the team is owned by Shamrock Holdings, which oversees the various investments of the Roy E. Disney family.Over...

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Dunbar was born in Houston

Houston, Texas

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, Texas

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 but grew up in Minden

Minden, Louisiana

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, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana

Louisiana

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, and played basketball for the former African American

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 Webster High School (since consolidated into Minden High School

Minden High School (Minden, Louisiana)

Minden High School is the public secondary educational institution in Minden, a small city of 13,000 and the seat of Webster Parish located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana...

). His father, Louis Dunbar, Sr., was a deputy for Sheriff

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 O.H. Haynes, Jr., the father of the Minden football star Fred Haynes

Fred Haynes

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Lou played for the University of Houston

University of Houston

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 between the years 1972–1975.

He currently served as a boys’ basketball coach

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 in the Houston area and conducted private basketball lessons. He also coached at First Presbyterian School.

Dunbar is a member of "Legends of Basketball", the National Basketball Retired Players Association.

Dunbar is also founder of the R&B outfit, The GT 5,6, Seven. They had a minor hit in 1985 with "Pass The Rock".

External links

• "Sweet" Lou Dunbar via Globetrotters site