All 83 outdoor basketball courts in Memphis.

Tom Lee Park reopened on the Mississippi riverfront in September 2023 after a rebuild by Studio Gang and SCAPE, and the basketball court is the centrepiece. It sits under the Sunset Canopy, an open-air pavilion named for Tyre Nichols, the young Memphian who died after a police beating earlier that year.

The playing surface is a multi-colour painting based on a work by James Little, the abstract painter who was born and raised in Memphis. Penny Hardaway unveiled the court. Very few public courts in America carry that much meaning in a single slab of paint.

The park posts 3,791 Google reviews at a 4.6 average. Come at sunset, when the canopy earns its name and the river turns gold behind the far basket.

Orange Mound was founded in 1890 and is widely cited as one of the first neighbourhoods in the United States built by and for Black Americans, carved out of a former plantation and sold in small lots to Black families at a time when few other options existed. The court at Orange Mound Park sits in the middle of that history. It is a straightforward neighbourhood court with a local run, and the neighbourhood's pride in itself is visible on it.

Tobey Park sits near the Liberty Bowl in midtown-east Memphis, 392 Google reviews at a 4.5 average, one of the highest-rated parks in our Memphis data. OpenStreetMap confirms a basketball court inside the grounds.

Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park runs along the bluffs south of downtown, 607 Google reviews at a 4.5 average, with a basketball court on Riverside Boulevard listed separately on Google. Quieter than Tom Lee a mile north, and the river views from the bluff are nearly as good.

The court at Douglass Park anchors the Douglass neighbourhood of north Memphis, named for Frederick Douglass and home to generations of Memphis's Black working families. The community centre on the same grounds covers the indoor side. A neighbourhood court with a neighbourhood crowd.

Gaisman Park on Macon Road posts 613 reviews at a 4.3 average, with a community centre on site and basketball mentioned by the people who use it. A dependable east Memphis park court with an indoor fallback next door.

The Lincoln Park courts on Cincinnati Road serve south Memphis, listed on Google as a dedicated basketball address. A straightforward neighbourhood run and one of the few purpose-listed outdoor courts in that part of the city.

The Cherokee Park basketball court on Filmore Avenue rounds out the Memphis outdoor list, a dedicated court serving the Cherokee and Orange Mound border neighbourhoods.