Streetball is the raw and raucous version of pro basketball. Games run short and sharp, players sub in and out, and trash-talking is encouraged.

Beijing’s Dongdan basketball courts are the spiritual homeland of streetball in China. For 10 Sundays every summer, players sweat it out for bragging rights and street cred in the now famous Sunday Sunset tournaments.

And the man who started it all is 35-year-old Wu You, who’s been spreading the streetballing hype across China for the past 15 years.

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Producers: Venus Wu and Joel Roche
Videographer: George Zhi Zhao
Narrator: Joel Roche
Editor: Joel Roche
Mastering: Joel Roche

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