Prince on MSN homepage...basketball related.

I was wondering why a picture of 15 year old Prince from his high school team was just on the local six o clock news on TV,

I guess they just surf the web for filler now.

Yeah this is also in the NY Daily News and popping up on Twitter:

http://www.nydailynews.co...-1.2136946

Boy, even a novice Prince fan must have seen that photo of him from Bryant. I remember first seeing in a Prince book that came out around Purple Rain.

off topic. Is the Daisy Chain video the only footage of Prince playing basketball?

PHOTOS: Prince had a giant afro and wasn’t happy with his playing time as a high school basketball player in Minneapolis

SETH POPPEL/YEARBOOK LIBRARYPrince (No. 3 on the right) played for Minneapolis' Bryant Junior High in 1972.

Prince is actually 5-foot-2 — with the afro 5-6 — and was a pretty good dribbler in high school.

Photos of an afro-rocking, short short-wearing Prince circulated online this week, along with clippings of a story about the music icon’s days playing basketball in junior high and high school in Minneapolis in the mid 1970s.

“Prince was an excellent player; he was like the sixth or seventh man,” Richard Robinson, his coach at Minneapolis’ Central High School, told the Star-Tribune. The clipping was shared by a reporter at the paper, Libor Jany, who discovered the yellowing piece of newsprint while digging through the newspaper’s archives. It’s unclear when the interview was published.

“He was an excellent ball handler, a good shooter and very short. Probably with a different group of people he would have been a starter. But, as they turned out, they were probably the best ball team that ever came along at Central. I knew he wanted to be starting and felt he should be starting. He was unhappy and he expressed that many, many times.

Murphy told a story of meeting Prince while at a club with his brother, Eddie Murphy, in Los Angeles in around 1985. Murphy said that Prince invited them back to his house, and, after listening to some music, Prince suggested they all play some basketball. According to Murphy, he and his friends changed while Prince and his crew didn’t.

“Prince was wearing like a Zorro-type outfit with ruffles coming down the front ... it looked like something that a figure skater would wear,” he said.

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Everyone knew Prince was a sports fan (above l. at the French Open last year and r. at an NBA game in Toronto in 2002), but who knew he was such a jock?

Murphy claimed that he mocked Prince when he took the floor dressed the way he was.

“The shirts against the blouses,” he joked before getting undressed by Prince’s squad.

“This cat can ball, man. He was getting rebounds like Charles Barkley.”

Prince, who also played football, basketball and baseball at Bryant Junior High and Central HS, addressed the game in an interview with MTV.

“That part (about the clothes) isn’t true. But the whupping's true,” he said.

Asked if he had some game, “a crossover dribble,” Prince gave the most Prince answer ever:

“We didn't call it crossover back then.”

What'd you call it?

“Just speed.”