(audience clapping)
- Everyone knows you as number 24,
which happens to be my lucky number, so whatever.
But, I know you as the guy who took Brandy to prom.
I mean, how did that happen?
That's amazing.
- I just saw her and asked her.
- [Kelly] She was Moesha back then.
- She was, yeah, she was Moesha.
You know, I'm just a high school kid,
but I needed a date, so.
- Oh my gosh. (audience clamoring)
Look at y'all!
You showed up to prom with Moesha!
- Yeah, yeah.
Damn, I didn't have hair by choice back then.
(laughing)
- That's all right, it's working, it's working.
Let's go back even further though.
Tell us about this.
Yeah!
(Kobe laughing)
Get it, get it!
You don't care!
I don't care, look at me!
(audience cheering)
Yeah, body roll.
Oh, you went off stage, you went off stage!
- You know.
- You exited, you danced and you exited.
- Back then, MC Hammer was like, the thing,
he was doing the snake, the typewriter.
- [Kelly] I know the typewriter.
- You know what I'm sayin'?
- Yes yes.
- It was like the running man was the real running man.
It wasn't like this little running man, people doing now.
And yeah, I was energetic, I was passionate.
- [Kelly] What was that school?
Was that a school talent show?
- Yeah, it was a school talent show in Italy,
and my sister was a part of it, and an act dropped out,
and so she asked me if I would do it,
and big sister kinda was like, hey listen, you're doin' it.
And so, I did it.
- Oh, so you all are close.
- [Kobe] Yeah, yeah.
- That's cool.
- So, I did that show.
- When do you think my children will be close?
When do you think that's gonna happen?
All my children, we got four, and they're all like
(mouth trilling)
- Yeah, well you know how it is.
It just happens, and then as they get older,
I think they get a little closer.
It hasn't quite happened for us yet.
- [Kelly] Me neither.
- They're close, but they're not.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- They love each other,
but don't necessarily tell each other.
- A battle, it's like Game of Thrones.
Which one's gonna be the ultimate.
- Who's gonna sit on the iron throne.
- Yes!
It's crazy.
- Yeah, and ours is 16, we got 16, 13,
two soon to be three, and one that just turned four months.
- Whoa.
You're tired.
Four months?
- Listen, I'm okay. - Or, she's tired.
(Kelly laughing)
- She's like, finally you're home, you get a chance
to do something, versus like being away.
- We have four too, but yours are all girls.
- All girls.
- That's a lot of estrogen, like you went
from hangin' out with all dudes to just rockin' with women.
- Pretty much.
- Yeah, that's a lot.
- It's all right, I just leave the remote where it is.
(laughing)
I'm not fightin' that battle.
- You just know.
- No, no, they just come down stairs, change the channel.
I'm just like.
(laughing)
- All we watch is animated stuff, so yeah.
- Yeah, so you probably watch a lot of Moana.
- Dude, I saw you singing Moana on Carpool Kara--
I was singing along with you.
- That too, dude, you got, well, how did I do?
- You did great!
- Yeah?
I thought it was so sweet too.
And, to see a grown man, like,
my husband sings to my children.
- You kind of have to though.
If you're changing them on a changing table,
and you see 'em start kinda go.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Real quick.
- [Kelly] Gotta make it happen.
♪ I've been staring at the edge ♪
(audience cheering)
And, they're like, they start smiling.
- [Kelly] They lot you know.
- Yeah, and all of a sudden I go from,
I turn from Black Mamba to the white mamba.
- To white mamba!
(laughing)
- Yeah, I can sing now.
- That's your other alter-ego, actually,
that's what we found, okay.
When you're coaching your daughter's team,
which I think is amazing that you do that.
Do people, are you Black Mamba or are you Dad?
- I'm a combination of both.
- Okay, 'cause you are a Virgo, so I know you gotta be
a little controlling about the situation.
- [Kobe] Yeah, perfectionist, perfectionist.
But, what I found is it's really fun to teach
all the girls, like, they're very passionate
about the game, they're very curious about the game.
So, I try to teach 'em the finite details of the game.
For example, we do things sometimes in, by the way,
this is my little Taurus right here.
- [Audience] Aw.
- [Kobe] Yeah, it's real sweet now until, uh-oh.
(audience laughing)
- [Kelly] Get it Taurus!
- Yeah, you're right, get off of me.
Yeah, she's a little aggressive.
- We are, Taurus' are.
- A little bit.
- Yep.
This is the future.
(laughing) - Yeah, hey.
- You're welcome.
- My wife's a Taurus too, and so like.
- Oh my gosh, she's crazy too then, she's awesome.
I love being a Taurus, I did ask my nanny though,
and my assistant, because I don't know,
all being sportsball, but my nanny and assistant
are crazy when it comes to sports,
they know more than any man around me.
It's crazy.
So, sportsball fans everywhere wanna know.
- All right.
- There are a lot of high-profile duos this year,
besides LeBron and Anthony Davis, who are you most excited
to see play together?
- Okay, um.
- So, are there duos that stick out or something
on different teams?
- Yeah, there's dynamic duos.
- Dynamic duos.
The ambiguously gay duo, do you remember that?
(laughing)
From SNL?
(laughing)
Literally, that's where my brain went!
- Okay, I got a Taurus at home right here.
- What two people do you think stand out though?
Which ones are you excited about seeing?
- So, there's another duo in LA,
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George that are really tough.
- Yeah?
- Really really tough.
And then, there's one in Houston,
James Harden and Russell Westbrook.
- [Kelly] I'm going to Texas.
- These are all phenomenal, like, if you watch them play
they're all insane.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, yeah, really talented.
- I do get into sports when I'm at a game.
I really enjoy it.
I don't like watching it on TV, I like being there.
- You know what?
I kinda don't like watching on TV either.
- Yeah, it's not fun.
- It's real long.
- Oh, there's so much stuff I could be doing at my house.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I'm like, if I'm at the game,
you would think I am a die-hard, I'm like, yes!
And I have no idea what's happening.
- You're at home and you're like.
- Yeah, I would much rather do anything else.
So, tell me about, you're an author,
so tell me about your new book.
- Yeah, so we have a book coming out
called Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof.
It's about a young girl and a young boy
who grow up on opposite sides of the spectrum.
One's a princess, other one grows up in the streets,
and they go to a very prestigious sports academy,
and at that sports academy some evil crap happened,
and they gotta figure out how to save the day.
So, even though it's a sports book,
it's really not much to do with sport.
In a sense that sport is just a metaphor for life.
So, when you feel anxiety, when you feel nervousness,
when you have to learn how to communicate better
with others, we have a way of manifesting that magically
into the sport itself, so kids have a visual
of how to learn about emotional intelligence
and how to develop that through the journey
of the characters, and so that's what we try to do.
- Wow, I love it.
It sounds deep.
- [Kobe] Yeah, it is. (audience clapping)
- It sounds so deep for, I love that.
- We gotta do that for our kids though.
Our kids keep gettin' content that's very superficial.
- Yeah.
- You know?
And also, wanna have stories out there
that teach my daughters, like, it's okay to have ambition.
And, the thing that always drives me crazy
is that every story with a female protagonist
feels like you need to have a romantic counterpart.
I'm like.
- We don't need that.
(audience members laughing) - No, no no.
Like, she loves tennis, she loves track,
she loves basketball, that's it, you know?
(audience clapping)
Maybe that's just the father in me.
- You're like, so get away from our girls!
- That's exactly right, that's exactly right.
I don't want them to date, so I'm like,
yeah yeah, there's romantic, you know.
(audience laughing)
- It is true though, it's like that.
Well, so you don't have enough jobs.
You also have a podcast for kids.
- [Kobe] I do, I do.
- You are so awesome.
- [Kobe] No.
- I thought I had a lot of things going on.
I've met my match.
Tell us about the podcast for kids.
- It's a fun podcast called The Punies.
And that was inspired by,
if you guys have ever seen the movie The Sandlot?
- Yes!
Oh gosh, forever.
- [Kobe] It's inspired by The Sandlot.
Come on, man, Sandlot's a classic.
We watch it every 4th of July as a family,
we sit around with burgers, hot dogs,
and we watch The Sandlot.
- That's such a good film.
- And one year, I was watching it, I was like,
man, we need something like that again.
And so, that's when I created the podcast show
called The Punies, which is just about a bunch
of neighborhood kids that play sports together
and learn from each other.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Like, very valuable lessons through sports.
We don't have coaches in the podcast.
There aren't parents in the podcast,
it's literally the kids ribbing each other
and joking with each other.
- [Kelly] Like Sandlot, yeah.
- Like, Sandlot.
- [Kelly] That is so clever.
- Thank you. (audience clapping)
- [Kelly] Dang, all right.