NEW YORK — In a different era of basketball — far away from the carefully-edited offseason workouts on Instagram — members of the New York Knicks spent their summers at the playground.
And that included The Captain.
Willis Reed, the Knicks legend who died Tuesday at 80, was a frequenter of Rucker Park, the famed streetball court in Harlem. Reed won a pair of Rucker Pro League titles during his summers with the Knicks, and involved himself in the community beyond basketball.
