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KARE11: Prince and Basketball

Source: The story talks not just about the Charlie Murphy story, but touches on Lovesexy Tour, and the snip of him playing basketball at the end of the "Daisy Chain" video. Video behind the link, plus the full story.

Basketball, blouses and pancakes: Paisley Park unpacks the hoops history of Prince after video goes viral

A short highlight of Prince shooting hoops on stage in the late 1980's generated more than 3 million views online in just a day. Here's the story behind it.

A short, 25 second video of the iconic musician spinning a basketball on his finger and then casually draining a jump shot on stage during a tour in the late 1980’s, already has more than 3 million views on Twitter, after being posted by @freezp0p on Thursday.

KARE11 visited with Mitch Maguire, Legacy Preservationist at Paisley Park about the clip and how basketball is became a part of Prince’s legacy.

Kent Erdahl: "That was actually part of his tour, correct?"

Mitch Maguire: "It was. It was part of the Lovesexy Tour, which began in 1988 and finished in 1989. It was a very elaborate tour. There was a lot of production value involved in that one, including a basketball hoop that was on stage with Prince.”

Erdahl: "You have to be pretty talented at basketball to pull off, not only shooting something like that live in front of a crowd, but doing it in his famous platform shoes."

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