Bounce: A Basketball Opera” will be staged at Holcombe Rucker Park, where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Erving have played.

The New York Knicks are in the Mecca of Basketball, as they say, but the last time they’ve won an NBA championship was in 1973, around 50 years ago.Their recent resurgence may strike fans as an ...

S treet basketball has been a cornerstone of urban culture for decades, with the legendary Rucker Park at its epicenter. Established in Harlem in the 1950s, the Rucker League became a proving ...

Rucker Park is where the true hoopers play. Legends have graced the caged court in the history of the Harlem basketball court. Gladiators of the concrete jungle battle on this stage, with New York ...

Rucker Park is where the true hoopers play. Legends have graced the caged court in the history of the Harlem basketball court. Gladiators of the concrete jungle battle on this stage, with New York ...

The Harlem park is named after Holcombe Rucker, who was a World War II veteran, scholar, mentor, and coach. Many iconic New Yorkers took to the basketball court to showcase their skills to those ...

Rucker Park was a proving ground, a cultural furnace that cooked up streetball heroes and legends alike. And for Erving, it became the birthplace of something bigger than basketball.

When talking about places that are considered sacred in the basketball world, few come to mind. There's the old Boston Garden, where those Celtics squads made their historic title runs.