New York City’s Parks and Recreation Department maintains more than 170 basketball courts in Brooklyn. Touring them all took two weeks, a serious bicycle tuneup, gallons of water and one warning that players might raze me if I kept taking pictures at midcourt.

After weaving through that fast break at Bushwick’s Maria Hernandez Park, I now have the results of what might be the most comprehensive survey ever of the borough’s courts.

The quick take: About a third of the courts are in good shape. The rest have issues.

That’s not to say any of the courts are unplayable. You can play basketball, the city's sport, on all of them—well, besides the two that are entirely missing hoops—as long as you’re willing to deal with balls that don’t bounce true off the rim or pavement. The most common problems were bent baskets and faded paint. The worst playing surfaces had cracks so wide that weeds grew out of them.