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.

HARLEM, NY — Basketball's hallowed ground, Holcombe Rucker Park in Harlem, is hosting a ground-breaking, genre-defying theater performance this week on its courts with the opening of "Bounce ...

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. The park gave ...