{"id":20921,"date":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/20\/prince-looks-cool-in-throwback-middle-school-basketball-photo\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T08:15:47","slug":"prince-looks-cool-in-throwback-middle-school-basketball-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/prince-looks-cool-in-throwback-middle-school-basketball-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Looks Cool in Throwback Middle School Basketball Photo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Prince<\/strong> undoubtedly looked cool in one of the best celebrity throwback childhood photos we have seen in a long time!\u00a0The man who discovered the photo and posted it on <strong>Twitter<\/strong>, is no other than Minneapolis <strong>Star Tribune<\/strong> reporter, <strong>Libor Jany<\/strong>. The photo is dated back to Prince&#8217;s middle school years when the 56-year-old singer was attending &#8216;Bryant Junior High School&#8217; and is taken from the school&#8217;s yearbook. The funk &amp; Rn&#8217;B star is shown posing in basketball uniform and afro hair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28206\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pix.jpg\" alt=\"pix\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to his coach, <strong>Richard Robinson<\/strong> who spoke to the Star Tribune, Prince was a decent player but he had already shown his inclination in music:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8216;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Though music was his calling, Prince was an excellent player. But apparently, Prince wasn&#8217;t too pleased being the sixth or seventh man, and wanted to be on the starting lineup. He was unhappy and he expressed that many, many times.&#8217;, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">his coach insists.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, who knows what would have happened if Prince had followed a basketball career instead of music?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PRINCE-SUPER-BOWL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28208\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PRINCE-SUPER-BOWL.jpg\" alt=\"Prince\" width=\"570\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince undoubtedly looked cool in one of the best celebrity throwback childhood photos we have seen in a long time!\u00a0The man who discovered the photo and posted it on Twitter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,297,1511,298],"tags":[821,6034],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}