プリンスさんのインスタグラム写真 - (プリンスInstagram)「Music wasn't the only thing Prince was passionate about. He also had a lifelong love of basketball, which was cultivated at an early age when he played on the team at Bryant Junior High in south Minneapolis. • The young Prince Rogers Nelson was talented enough at the sport that he made the junior varsity team at the highly competitive Central High School when he was in the ninth grade, and became known for his agility and his endurance. He quit the team when he wasn't getting enough court time, however. • "Probably with a different group of people he would have been a starter," Central High coach Richard Robinson would tell Jon Bream of the @startribune, "but, as they turned out, they were probably the best ball team that ever came along at Central. He was unhappy and he expressed that many, many times. He always has been a person who felt he had to do things his way." • While basketball always remained one of Prince's favorite hobbies — a pastime that was forever memorialized in a famous skit by the comedian Dave Chappelle — it was to the world's benefit that he was discouraged from seriously pursuing it at that pivotal age. Once he left the team, he turned all of his energy toward making music. • This basketball season, the @timberwolves have been paying tribute to Prince and his love of the game with their 2018-2019 Prince-Inspired City Edition uniforms, and have hosted halftime performances by Minneapolis Sound legends like @morris_day_and_the_time, @jbjexperience, and @sheilaedrummer. They will cap off the season with a final City Edition night on April 5, 2019, at the @targetcentermn in downtown Minneapolis — and attendees at that game vs. Miami will receive an exclusive, collector’s edition seven-inch vinyl copy of "Rock and Roll is Alive! (and it lives in Minneapolis)."」3月22日 5時33分