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Insiders: Dave Chappelle's Skit on Prince Was 'True' and Icon Compared to Steph Curry

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The late Prince was a noted basketball fan who surely would've enjoyed watching the NBA playoffs this year, and it sounds like his basketball skills once matched his fandom.

The legendary artist was the subject of a "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" skit on Dave Chappelle's Chappelle's Show in 2004 that detailed an outlandish story about Prince challenging Murphy and his brother, Eddie Murphy, to a game of basketball and absolutely destroying them on the court.

It turns out that the skit wasn't just a tall tale, as ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk spoke to some who grew up with Prince in St.