Elite 24: Rucker Park legends
https://www.espn.com/high-school/boys-basketball/story/_/id/7939736/rucker-park-legends Ronnie Flores ESPN - May 17, 2012 Naming the 24 best players famed Rucker Park ever produced will stir plenty of debate. Basketball junkies would have beef if we ranked the 124 best players to come through the famed park in Harlem. Still, we're putting it out there. In order to limit the Rucker ruckus, we left the players unranked. On this list, you'll find NBA icons, streetball legends and -- in some cases -- both. What you won't find are big-name ballers who came to Rucker once or twice, never to return. The one thing everybody on this list has in common is that they regularly thrived on the most famous outdoor court in the world. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Power Memorial (New York, N.Y.) '65 Probably the greatest high school player of all-time (sorry, LeBron), Abdul-Jabbar, then known as Lew Alcindor, led Power on a 71-game winning streak. He also killed cats