Harlem Globetrotters Game at Allstate Arena on Friday, December 28, at 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. (Up to 54%)

With their distinctive, red, white, and blue candy-striped uniforms, the Harlem Globetrotters are instantly recognizable on most courts and maddeningly difficult to guard during pickup games in barber-pole factories. Witness basketball at its most colorful with this GrouponLive deal to see the Harlem Globetrotters play at Allstate Arena on Friday, December 28. Doors open one hour before game time for ticket holders and two hours before game time for ticket holders with a Magic Pass. Magic Passes grant access to a special 30-minute exhibition of tricks and hands-on basketball fun with the players 90 minutes before game time; pass holders also get the chance to meet the Globetrotters and their mascot, Globie, and to collect autographs. Choose from the following seating options:

• For $36, you get one ticket for lower-level seating in rows OâEUR"R of sections 105, 108, 113, or 116, plus a Magic Pass (a $67.90 value, including all fees).
• For $45, you get one ticket for seating in sections 8âEUR"10, 101, 104, 109, or 112, or in rows DDâEUR"FF of lower-level section 102, 103, 110, or 111 (up to a $90.85 value, including all fees).
• For $55, you get one ticket for seating in any row of sections 8âEUR"10, 101, 104, 109, or 112, or in rows DDâEUR"FF of lower-level section 102, 103, 110, or 111, plus a Magic Pass (a $119.15 value, including all fees).
• For $92, you get one ticket for courtside seating in row 2 of section 3 or 4 (up to a $183.10 value, including all fees).

For each of the above options, choose between the following game times:

• 2 p.m.
• 7 p.m.

Since forming in the 1920s, the Harlem Globetrotters have continued to entertain millions of parents, children, and general basketball admirers with a trademark blend of athletic precision and razzle-dazzle showmanship. For the team's 2012 tour, a rotating roster of Globetrotter favorites take to the hardwood each game, so spectators might spot Special K sharing a behind-the-back pass with dunker Quake, whose high jump once cleared 7 feet, cruelly dashing his dreams of working in a ceiling-fan store. The Globetrotters might also present a study in contrasts with 5-foot-2 Too Tall and 7-foot-8 Tiny, the world's tallest pro basketball player.

During each Globetrotters game, youngsters laugh along and witness the jovial jocks performing classic routines of unconventional passing and sudden transmutations of water into confetti. Having performed in 120 countries and on all six penguin-overrun continents, the Globetrotters are one of the few teams inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as ambassadors of the sport.