Walking through the heavy night of Harlem, New York, turn right from 153rd Street into 155th Street, where the former site of the Polo Baseball Stadium is.

That stadium had been the home of the New York Giants since 1891. In 1911, its wooden bleachers caused a fire and the entire stadium was razed to the ground.

Now there is a 17-story "slum building" that you can guess people call "Polo Stadium Apartments".

The rooftop terraces of the apartment buildings were deserted, save for a haphazard spread of clotheslines and TV antennas.

Looking down from this former baseball mecca, you can see an asphalt basketball court painted with red and green paint. Some empty beer bottles in brown brown paper bags have nowhere to hide under the pale street lights.

That's another holy place: Rucker Park.

Rucker Park has been the mecca of street ball since 60 years ago, and it has as long a history as the NBA.

In 1946, New York Park Department employee Holcombe Locke was determined to find some entertainment for the idle children in Harlem on sweltering summer nights, so he founded a summer basketball league.

What caused a headache for the park was that the nets in Rucker Park always fell into pieces within two days. In the end, the park administrator simply stopped replacing the nets, so to this day the bare hoops are still the eye-catching symbol of the street court.

The function of the net is to slow down the falling speed of the basketball. It is also an eye-catching symbol when shooting from a long distance.

The direct consequence of not having a basketball net is that there were very few long-range shots in early street ball. Players liked to score by dunking or layups. To do this, they had to get past their defenders first.

The fancy style of street ball was born, but at that time there was no crotch dribbling, and the most skilled players were only good at changing directions.

In the 1960s, the political instability in the United States caused a sense of despair in the hearts of many people, especially young people, and this feeling was even more obvious in Rucker Park.

It was an era when streetball heroes emerged in large numbers. Streetball legends such as "The Destroyer" Hammond, "The Goat" Manigat, and "Pee Wee" Kirkland were making waves in Rucker Park. They were called "streetball poets" or

“Gods on Asphalt.”

The appearance of these legendary players made Rucker Park famous, and many people came here specifically to watch them play.

The hoods of cars parked next to the stadium are the best courtside seats, the bridge over 155th Street is the second-floor boxes, and the rooftops of the high-rise buildings around the park are cheap seats.

The best players in the NBA also come here to compete with the street ball masters. Wilt Chamberlain, Irving, Knight Archibald, Cowens and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are all regular visitors to Locke Park.

"Those street heroes were never afraid of professional players," said "Tango Duke", who has been a commentator in Rucker Park for many years. "That makes them even greater. They see professional players as ordinary people who are just lucky enough to enter a professional league.

Play ball. Outside the NBA, those professional players are no different from the poor boys in the surrounding communities." Almost all streetball legends have performed in Rucker Park, and many NBA stars have also come here to compete with streetball masters.

NBA players who have played here include: Allen Iverson, Allen Iverson, Rafael Alston, Kenny Anderson, Ron Artest, Kobe Bryant.

Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, Baron Davis, Joe Forte, Steve Francis, Kevin Garnett, Lamar Odom, Stephon Marbury

Shawn MarionJamal MashburnTracy McGradySmush ParkerPaul PierceSebastian Telfair

Telfair Jamaal Tinsley Kevin Durant Kevin Durant Jermaine O'Neal As the craze of street basketball culture continues to sweep across China, streets belonging to Chinese people are also rising in China.

Basketball mecca "Rock Park", the park's first venue is located in Yangpu District, Shanghai, China.

The fall of the completion caused a whole craze.

As soon as the stadium was completed, it attracted various stars and well-known teams such as Wilber Pan, Song Seung-hyun, Yao Ming, Ding Junhui, TFB, and S.K.Y.

However, due to municipal construction, the stadium was closed.