Eddie Murphy confirms Prince basketball game story: 'The blouses won'

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The legendary story about Eddie Murphy and his brother losing to Prince in a game of pickup basketball is true.

During an appearance on Thursday's episode of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," Murphy reiterated the story first told by his brother, Charlie Murphy, in a "Chappelle's Show" sketch in 2004.

"That is totally and absolutely accurate ... we had on our club clothes and Prince had on that outfit that was in the 'Kiss' video," Murphy said.

The actor confirmed Prince's team won, but believes the result may have had something to do with the shoes one of his teammates was wearing.

"The blouses won. They beat the shit out of us," Murphy said. "But you know what I think? 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 maybe 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. The one dude that could play, Prince's shoes had him shut down, so he couldn't execute."