The game was scheduled to start at 7 p.m. At 7:30, the Harlem Globetrotters, like most other entertainers, took the court against the New York Nationals a fashionable half hour late, with “Sweet Georgia Brown” playing over the speakers in Hilton.The Globetrotters won easily, 86-64.But what the fans will remember more than the box score is Curly “Boo” Johnson passing the ball off his back side, Michael “Wild Thing” Wilson coming close to spraining his ankle after descending from one of his many viscous dunks and Paul “Showtime” Gaffney taking a time-out to douse fans with water.”Always we are trying to entertain, some form of entertainment,” Gaffney said, an eight season veteran with the Globetrotters.When Gaffney was not watering down the patrons or exposing a referee’s bare front side from the belly up to a filming news camera, he was directing an offense with a microphone attached to his jersey so the fans could hear every word that “Mr. Globetrotter” (another moniker) uttered.Referee Barry Terry spent time in junior colleges and Division I schools before hopping aboard the Globetrotter tour. Although putting on a good show is key, the team does not spend extended time at acting school.”If you stay here for a couple of years, you are a pro athlete,” Terry said. “Two things that [owner] Mannie Jackson stresses: great athlete, great personality.”Terry has reffed for the club for five years, but Charles “Tex” Harrison has given his professional life to the Globetrotters.He has coached the team since 1978, and from 1954-1972 he threw on the red-and-white shorts as a player.”To watch them carry on the tradition that was started way back and still be a part of it is quite gratifying,” Harrison said. “It beats working.”Gaffney looks at what he does in a more humanitarian light.”To be a part of an organization … there is no racial difference, no financial difference, no age difference. It’s just people enjoying themselves, [its] really a model of how the world should be. It’s spectacular to be a part of,” he said.