--- title: Prince As Middle School Basketball Player: Photos description: Nothing compares 2 this photo canonical: https://time.com/3731606/prince-middle-school-basketball-player-photos/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-04T16:49:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:56.846Z og:title: Here's What Prince Looked Like as a Middle School Basketball Player og:description: Nothing compares 2 this photo og:url: https://time.com/3731606/prince-middle-school-basketball-player-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Prince Looked Like as a Middle School Basketball Player twitter:description: Nothing compares 2 this photo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's What Prince Looked Like as a Middle School Basketball Player > Sponsored content. 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He found the above photos from Prince’s stint as a basketball player at Bryant Junior High, along with the following newspaper clipping about his skills: > [](https://twitter.com/StribJany/status/572780851072667649) Looks like there could be some truth behind that [famous _Chappelle’s Show_ skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnL8sCi4BM) after all. ### Celebrities Who Look Uncannily Alike  Jessica Chastain & Bryce Dallas Howard Getty Images (2)  Orlando Bloom & Luke Evans Getty Images (2)  Javier Bardem & Jeffrey Dean Morgan Getty Images (2)  Minka Kelly & Leighton Meester Getty Images (2)  Daniel Radcliffe & Elijah Wood Getty Images (2)  Will Ferrell & Chad Smith Getty Images (2)  Henry Cavill & Matt Bomer Getty Images (2)  Tom Hardy & Logan Marshall-Green Getty Images (2)  Natalie Portman & Keira Knightley Getty Images (2)  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Josh Holloway Getty Images (2)  Mark Ruffalo & Chris Messina Getty Images (2)  Jeremy Irons & Daniel Day-Lewis Getty Images (2)  Johnny Depp & John Mayer Getty Images (2)  Mila Kunis & Sarah Hyland Getty Images (2)  Zachary Quinto & Eli Roth Getty Images (2)  Will Arnett & Patrick Wilson Getty Images (2)  Ryan Gosling & Ryan Reynolds Getty Images (2) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3731606/prince-middle-school-basketball-player-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3731606/prince-middle-school-basketball-player-photos/"},"headline":"Here's What Prince Looked Like as a Middle School Basketball Player","datePublished":"2015-03-04T16:49:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:56.846Z","description":"Nothing compares 2 this photo","url":"https://time.com/3731606/prince-middle-school-basketball-player-photos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3731606/prince-middle-school-basketball-player-photos/","name":"Here's What Prince Looked Like as a Middle School Basketball Player"}}]}] ```