Sylvester "Sy" Blye is a former American street

Streetball

Streetball or street basketball is a variation of the sport of basketball, typically played on outdoor courts and featuring significantly less by way of formal structure and enforcement of the game's rules...

 and professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player.

Blye was famous in the Rucker Park

Rucker Park

Rucker Park is a basketball court in the Harlem neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard across the street from the former Polo Grounds site...

 league in New York City

New York City

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, being named to its Hall of Fame. He played briefly in college for Seattle University, before officials found he had played professionally for the Harlem Clowns, and also played at West Hills College

West Hills College

West Hills College is a public two-year community college serving students in the San Joaquin Valley. There are two campuses: the original campus in Coalinga, established in 1932, with 1,200 students, and the Lemoore campus, built in 2002 and serving 3,200 students...

 in California.

He also starred for the Philadelphia/Washington/New York Tapers

Philadelphia Tapers

The Philadelphia Tapers were an American amateur and professional basketball team. Originally the New York Tapers, the team played in the NABL and was sponsored by Technical Tape Corporation, makers of Tuck brand adhesive and recording tapes....

 of the professional American Basketball League. In the 1962/63 season, he scored the 4th most points, and is 5th in career points and 7th in career rebounds in the ABL.

ABL Statistics

Year	Games	Points per game	Rebounds per game	Assists per game	Minutes per game
1961/62	81	16.0	7.7	1.3	33.3
1962/63	28	17.7	10.0	1.0	34.8