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2 unusual facts about Rucker Park


Fonde

Fonde has been featured as a playable location in several NBA video games, including the NBA Live series, along with other well-known underground hoops hotbeds such as New York's Rucker Park, Goat Park, and The Cage, Chicago's Jackson Park Cages and Venice Beach.

Rucker Park

The court is named after Harlem teacher and playground director for the New York City Parks Department Holcombe L. Rucker, who started a basketball tournament in 1950 in order to help less-fortunate kids stay off the streets and aim for college careers.


Darren Phillip

Phillip has a long standing reputation as being one of the best big men in the New York City summer hoops circuit, winning numerous championships and awards at Hoops In the Sun at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, Nike Pro City and EBC Rucker Park.

Lance Stephenson

Stephenson received his "Born Ready" nickname from Bobbito García, a courtside announcer at Rucker Park, in the summer of 2006 during a game against older players.


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