Though basketball is a popular sport the world over, there is a variation of it called streetball. Every year, one place in China turns up with a throng of people coming from distant lands to catch a glimpse of Beijing's legendary streetball tournament at Sunset Dongdan.
Streetball is more fast and loose than your NBA variety of the sport, typically played with less enforcement of the rules, more flair and tricks. There are courts around the world that draw perennial crowds hoping to catch some of the city’s — even country’s — most talented streetball players in action.
For New York, it’s Rucker Park; for LA, it’s the courts at Venice Beach. For China, that court is Dongdan, which plays host to the aforementioned yearly streetball tournament that falls between May and June.
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