By: Harlan (Hucky) Austin

Dave Chappelle (Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories) tells a funny story about playing basketball with Prince and Eddy Murphy. Well, I have my own court-side tale to share when it comes to “shirts vs. blouses.”

I used to play basketball with some of my boys from the hood. We’d get a few guys together to play every Wednesday night. These games were always a lot of fun, and could get pretty colorful in terms of smack-down talk. Prince caught wind of these games, and one day asked me “how come you never invite me to play?” He asked if he could join in on a game. I was surprised, but I knew that Prince liked to play basketball, in fact his brother Duane Nelson was an All-State basketball player (Prince’s lyrics “I wish I were handsome and tall like my brother” were truthful–Duane was a towering basketball star.)

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