Must-see: Prince's junior high basketball photo goes viral


We all know Prince is an artist, but a photo that made the rounds on social media Wednesday proves that he's an athlete, too.

The fun started when Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany tweeted some old clips from the paper's 1984 series about the music icon. The image was taken from an early 1970s Bryant Junior High School yearbook, according to the Star Tribune's Jon Bream.

"He was an, um, undersized guard – a talented reserve (No. 3 in the photo), according to one of his coaches – but one of the stars of the team was his half-brother Duane Nelson (No. 21 in the photo)," Bream said.

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