The 2025 HBCU All-Star Dream Classic returns to the iconic Holcombe Rucker Park in Harlem, New York on Saturday, August 9, ...

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.

Holcombe Rucker's tools: compassion, books and basketball. In that order. Seventy years later, the seeds planted by this humble community servant have grown, flourished and covered the globe.

The NBA and NCAA have officially sanctioned Rucker Park Streetball for basketball players in both respective leagues.