-There's so much to talk to you about.
-There's a lot. -There's a lot.
There's basketball. There's a fashion line, your charity.
But also you have your hands full at home.
How are the twins? How are the babies?
[ Audience "aw"s ]
-Same thing I say every morning.
-Yeah, yeah, right, yeah. -Yeah, it's great.
-How old? -My son is two.
And my daughters are nine months now.
-Wow. -I know, it's so great.
-Is he a big brother now? Does he love it?
-Yeah, he loves it until I got the girls with me
and he gets upset. -Then he gets jealous.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]
And you and your wife Nina just celebrated
your fourth wedding anniversary?
Is that right? -Fourth, yeah. Fourth.
-That's great. -Yeah.
[ Applause ] Yeah.
-You -- you dated for a while, right?
-Yeah. 12 years. -How long did you guys date?
-12 years. -No, no.
-Since college.
-Russ, you can't date someone for 12 years.
[ Laughter ]
Dude, what is wrong with you, man?
How'd you get away with that?
-Yeah, I don't know. -Oh, my gosh.
How did you do that? Yeah, but, you met in --
in college, right? UCLA? -Yeah. Yeah.
-And she played basketball as well.
-She did. She was actually a lot better than I was in college.
-Yeah. -She was.
She was a lot better than me.
-Do you guys ever play one on one?
-You know, we did. We did.
Uh, she won. She won. [ Laughter ]
And then she never played me again.
So I guess she just -- -She wanted to go out on top?
-That's it, that's it. -Yeah, smart.
Over the summer, you -- you got traded to Houston.
-Yeah. Yeah. -The Houston Rockets.
So this is a whole new -- -Yeah, it's exciting, man.
-Whole new life for you.
-Yeah, man, it's kind of different hearing you say,
"Welcome, starting point guard from the Houston Rockets."
It was kind of weird for me for the first time.
But -- -It is, right?
-You know, it's exciting. I'm happy.
I'm so thankful for all the people in Oklahoma City
and just excited for a new journey, so...
-Yeah. Well, Houston's great.
I mean, they got some good -- good food over there.
[ Laughter ] -That is true. That is true.
-They really got good food in Houston.
-Their food is hot though. It's really hot.
-It really is hot. But then you've got your pal
James Harden. -Yeah, the bearded one.
-Yeah, the bearded one. Yeah, exactly, yeah.
He's got a great -- he's got one of the best beard games
in the business.
-I mean, yeah, that may be true.
-Yeah. But you've knew him your whole life, right?
-I did. Since about 10, 11 years old.
-Is that right? -Yeah, yeah.
-Would you ever grow a James Harden beard?
-Well, see, this is the problem.
I've never shaved in my life.
So, what I got is what I got. That's it.
[ Laughter ] That's it.
So, whatever you see... -Really?
-That's it. -Wow.
-So, this is what you're gonna get.
-That -- that's -- that's you on, like, on a bender.
-Yeah. So, like, I've been growing this
for about 30 years.
[ Laughter ]
This is it. This is it.
This is it.
-We mocked it up to see what you would look like
if you had a beard. -Let's see.
-And, uh... [ Laughter ]
[ Applause ] Dude, not bad.
[ Laughs ] Not bad, though.
-It ain't bad. See, look at that.
-That's not bad, yeah. -It's not bad.
Only if I can grow it.
-You know, "NBA 2K20" just came out.
-Yep. -And a lot of people --
It just came out. Everyone's excited to play.
But I don't know if you saw your rating.
You know, they rate the players in the game.
-You know what? I haven't.
I haven't even played the game yet.
You know, I think -- as you know --
-Would you like to know what your rating is tonight?
-I mean, sure. Why not?
-I mean, LeBron is 97.
-Okay. -Yeah.
-That's the best? -That's the best.
-Okay. -Yeah.
Do you want to know your rating? Drum roll, please?
-Let's check it out. -Your rating is...
[ Drum roll ]
...90.
[ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪
Is that good?
[ Applause ]
-I mean, I feel like they're clapping because it's good.
-Yeah.
-But to me it just doesn't mean [bleep].
Nothing. [ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
-Even you throwing that, I want to give you a 100.
Right there, just for that. It was that good.
Yeah, you think the numbers should be higher, obviously.
Come on, it's Russell Westbrook.
-I just think it should be...
-Yeah. -...a number.
[ Laughter ]
-You're handling it really well.