They perform fundraisers at local schools for the students and the rest of the community, displaying their fancy trickery through dribbling, passing, shooting, and dunking.
The Wizards get the crowd involved, often bringing children out onto the floor to be part of a basketball trick or a comedy act.
"[1] They hold the second longest known winning streak in all of professional sports—over 5,000 games[2] after the Harlem Globetrotters 24-year, 8,829 game streak[3] According to harlemwizards.com, in 1943, Harlem Wizards creator Howie Davis was working as a Sports Promoter and the Sergeant and Recreation Director at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
The Dive Bombers pulled the upset and the Globetrotters' manager, Abe Saperstein, refused to even shake Davis' hand after the game.
Davis was intrigued by this event, and twenty years later, he decided to create his own show basketball team, the Harlem Wizards.