Wilt Chamberlain, Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Willis Reed, Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond — and many others — will have their stories told, we hear.…
NBA legend Julius “Dr. J” Erving is executive-producing an upcoming TV series based on the bestseller by New York Times writer, Vincent M. Mallozzi, “Asphalt Gods,” Page Six has exclusively learned.The scripted project — being repped by JoAnne Colonna of Brillstein Entertainment Partners — takes an in-depth look at some of the legendary players who honed their skills at Rucker Park — the uptown mecca of basketball in NYC.
Wilt Chamberlain, Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Willis Reed, Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond — and many others — will have their stories told, we hear.and Barry Bookhard and Jules Feiler.The book “Asphalt Gods: An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament” could be headed to TV screens as a series.
Rucker Park basketball was also the subject of a 2020 exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, called “City/Game: Basketball in New York.”of Rucker’s legendary scene in a piece coinciding with the museum show that even former Knicks great Walt “Clyde” Frazier — who grew up in Atlanta — took his talent to the wildly competitive courts while he was playing as a pro, and that he likened the Rucker experience to “being a gunslinger in the Old West.
Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury and more have also been known to show up at the park while working in the NBA to test their mettle.
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