It’s about five blocks from Joe Hammond’s building to the basketball court in Harlem. He can’t walk one of them without inspiring admiration. “Right here, this is the best there’s ever been,” says a ...

Portraits of Joe Hammond (l) and Pee Wee Kirkland are on display at an event in the Scientology Harlem community center on East 125th Street. Yet Hammond’s reputation was such that the Lakers took the ...

Playground legend Joe Hammond, aka The Destroyer, attends an event in the Scientology Harlem community center on East 125th Street. In his better days, Hammond owned the courts of Harlem, schooling ...