Taken in the mid-1970s, it captures the basketball team at Bryant Junior High in Minneapolis. “Prince was a darn good basketball player,” Al Nuness, Prince’s coach at Central High, told the Star Tribune in 2004. I’m telling you, a few more inches and, who knows, we might think of Prince as a basketball player, not a musician. He invited Carter to Paisley Park; allegedly wrote an unpublished song, “Betrayer,” about him; and was fond of wearing Carter’s No. In front of the couch, a television airs a basketball game on loop.

Source: thestar April 21, 2021 13:52 UTC