The one dude who could play, Prince’s shoes had him shutdown.
We had one dude on our squad that could play, named Larry, and he didn’t have no shoes, so Prince gave him some sneakers.
And Prince wore like two, three sizes smaller than Larry, but Larry was so excited to have Prince’s sneakers on, he put those tiny sneakers on his feet, so he couldn’t do his game right. He couldn’t execute, so we lost.
[Laughs] And the blouses won, they beat the shit out of us.
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