Rucker Park had a lot of influence on shaping modern basketball culture. It influenced many players, including Julius Erving and his style. And he, in turn, helped to popularize streetball's ...

Julius Erving, one of the most acrobatic basketball players the NBA has ever seen, is producing a TV series on the legendary Rucker Park.

Julius Erving is executive producing a TV series based on the best-selling book about the Rucker Park basketball tournament, “Asphalt Gods." ...

Holcombe Rucker Park is famous for basketball. It’s where stars like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Erving once put their reputations on the line, playing street legends.

The park became a legendary basketball site, with NBA stars like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant coming to play pickup games ...

The park will reopen with a community event that will include youth basketball clinics, skills competitions and guest appearances from current and former players.

NEW YORK — You can find the origins of basketball legends Wilt Chamberlain and Julius Erving on a certain hallowed court in Harlem and, throughout New York City, you can find a spiritual love ...

In 2002, Kobe Bryant cemented his status as a pure street baller at the legendary Rucker Park in Harlem. The mecca of street basketball that helped produced the likes of Julius "Dr. J" Erving bore ...

(On this day, Erving was wearing some sweats that said “Rucker,” the famed Harlem park where he got his nickname after people initially called him Black Moses and Houdini.) ...

Nate Archibald. Julius Erving. Wilt Chamberlain. Earl Monroe. Since the early 1950s, aspiring basketball stars have made their names playing at the historic Holcombe Rucker Park in Harlem, New York.

Julius “Dr. J” Erving returned to his hometown of Roosevelt Wednesday to the park where he got the call to be an alternate to the 1972 Olympic team. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and ...

In a projected funded by the NBPA, the renovation of the Greg Marius Court at Holcombe Rucker Park will include new bleachers, backboards, baskets and scoreboard and the addition of team benches.