- I can't wait to see Charles Barkley.
He don't want to play me one-on-one.
I'll break his other hip.
I'll murder him.
Big Baller's back, baby!
- Teach me how to shoot.
- That was loud.
Oh, what the...?
- Oh yeah, that's how quick it is.
- Ooh, you're gonna be a cowboy, Nate, after this.
Look out. - Yeah, I'm learning
- "Houseguest." Lets get it.
- What's up, guys? Y'all know what it is - "Houseguest."
I'm in Chino Hills pulling up at the Big Baller estate.
Its them triple B's.
We out hear to talk to Pops, who does it all.
You feel me?
- Big Nate! What's up, baby?
- My guy, what's good?
- Welcome to the Big Baller estate, baby!
- Hey, how you doing?
- It's all good, man. Good to see you, man.
- Yeah. Thanks for having me.
- One of the coldest houses in a 80-mile radius,
I don't care where you go,
Beverly Hills, San Diego, anywhere.
- Anywhere. - This one right here.
- This is nice. - They can't beat it.
- How'd you find it? - They can't get it, man.
I don't know. I'm just so lucky,
I always find the best thing, man.
- Family business. - How you like it?
- Talk to me.
- BBB, huh?
- That's how we role, baby.
- That's what's up, man
- But that's where it started, the youngsters man.
I knew I was gonna have me three cold monsters.
And I trained them all like this, and at a young age.
That's why people be like,
"Oh, LaVar how'd you make them superstars?"
No, I make 'em from Day One. - Right.
- You don't get all the way to the highest level and
all of a sudden you're a superstar.
- Where do you see your boys in the near future
- I see my boys ... in the near future, man,
they're gonna be the face of the NBA.
Everybody trying to create the Big Three.
They've been the Big Three since they've been babies.
And the people telling me - they said, "Man you know the
odds of all three your boys being on the same team?"
I said, "Yeah,
probably the same odds as me coming in the NBA
with my own brand."
So, don't tell me nothing about no odds.
- Right.
- Well, lets head on upstairs, man.
- Upstairs, huh? - Man....
- How we getting up there?
- How you getting up there, Big Baller?
Hey, the Big Baller elevator.
- Man got his own elevator in his house.
- Come on, man! We got to have this, man.
- Hop into it, hop into, man, on you.
Only two of us, though, man. Y'all got to catch the stairs.
- But you can't be a Big Baller,
without a Big Baller chandelier.
Holla at ya boy, man. Come on.
- Yeah, that's fire.
- With the triple B's on it. Let 'em know how we gets down.
And you see I got these two openings left, man.
One right here. - Yeah.
- And a big one right here.
- What's gonna go there?
- When all three of my boys get on the same team,
I'm puttin' a painting right there!
That's how its goin' down!
- Word.
- And then I can put me and Tina over there,
as the marquee.
That's how it gets down.
- Word, word.
- Come on in here.
Where a Big Baller be resting at. But I also got my....
I like to talk and relax in here.
- Talk and relax in here.
- That's why I put my big couch over there.
- Oh.
- Oh, man. I don't want you to get over there, though.
You sit on this side.
- All right, bet. I see you put your....
- What, you seen my foot massage?
- Yeah, I got one of those!
- Oh, my God, man!
You got one of these, man! - Yeah those is lit.
- I do like this, man.
And get up in this bad boy like this.
- And sit back and relax, huh?
- Oh, my God. I put the TV on,
kick these bad boys in here, and I do my
shiatsu.
That's what it's called. It does a figure eight,
and I figure my eight right here.
- Yeah.
- But hey, man,
we got to get back to what we was doin'!
Hold on, one gold second.
Good lord.
- So tell me about your upbringing, man.
- Man, my upbringing....
I got four brothers and two sisters.
- O.K.
- We had a big family.
My pops and mom stayed together, man,
and we was raised in L.A., South Central.
My dad, the way I was brought up,
we always thought family first.
So we don't let people kinda break us up.
- Right.
- No matter what happens, how big we get,
the money comes in, or whatever - we all the same.
So, we just stay with that family concept first.
- Then you birth three monsters.
- People are so shocked that today,
that when I say how good my boys are,
people be like, "Why you saying that?"
It'd be stupid if they got to the NBA
and I don't say nothing.
And all of a sudden I say,
"Keep working, son. You're going to be the best."
It's just like what they want to say,
"Oh, Melo's gonna go to Australia,
and he's gonna learn from these other guys."
I'm going to keep it real with you.
Melo ain't gonna learn s***.
He over there teaching them.
That's how to play, how to win.
That's why when I tell 'em they say, "Wow, LaVar."
I said, "Man, one-on-one I'll kill Jordan. He too little."
They thinking of Michael Jordan
playing five-on-five Chicago.
But one-on-one,
I will lift him off his feet - too strong too fast.
And to show you how good I was - he had sons, too.
Why they not as good as my sons?
That to show you it was oozing out of me.
- But see then we would have to ask, Where is the film at?
- Don't need no film!
- You don't need no film on you?
- Why?
- No film?
- Everybody's in they head.
Everybody who saw me, saw me one time
and one time only.
Everybody want to come up and play me one-on-one now.
I told 'em that door is closed.
I had it open for 50 years.
But I'll take a 50-year-old and wear his ass out.
I can't wait to see Charles Barkley.
He don't want to play me one-on-one.
I'll break his other hip.
I will murder him!
Man, that was one of my favorite players, to this day.
I mean, he played hard, couldn't win nothing.
- Right.
- But I told him if he wanted to win,
he need a father like me.
- Show you this, man.
- The future.
- That's why I got my ropes down here.
You know what that mean?
When somebody got ropes like this, man,
you know you got to go up in here in my theater room, baby.
- Oh, nice.
- This were I be kickin' it, man.
- Nice, this is sweet.
- Yes! I'm about to have
some more chairs put in here.
But I got these wires so I can make the chairs rumble.
- So in a movie theater....
So, what's your favorite movie
of all time?
- I like movies that....
If they have a brotherly thing,
like brothers get together and go do their thing.
- Yeah.
- They had this one movie called "Four Brothers."
- Oh yeah, I love "Four Brothers,"
with Tyrese in it.
- Yes! All of them got together, baby.
"We all take it together!"
- Yeah, "We all...."
- I had to show my boys that's how you stay together.
- That's fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I tell my boys as they're little,
I said, "Yo, if a guy comes in a van and he takes....
Let's say he takes Melo.
What are you two gonna do?"
That's what I ask my boys?
"Aw, Dad, we gonna come get you."
I said, "By the time you done come and get me...."
- He gone. - "... he gone.
So two of y'all best not come back
talkin' about, 'They got him.'
All three of y'all jump in that van."
It's harder to tie up three of 'em.
- Yeah, facts.
- Yeah.
Uh-oh! Look at this.
- Nice picture, by the way.
- How are you going to have a picture wearing the T-shirt?
- Yeah, that's fire! That's pretty dope.
- But I'm going to tell you the story behind this now.
Melo, the fact that he's not in college,
get 50% of the proceeds from
the sales of this shirt.
- Oh, nice.
That's sweet, that's sweet.
- And by having your own brand,
if you trying to get with Nike or somebody,
these two guys, Zion and Morant,
they can't make no deals.
- Oh, wow.
- You're in college.
- Yeah.
- Melo ain't in college.
- Yeah, that's nice.
- Ah, lets sell some T-shirts.
And this right here,
the first Triple B All-American Game.
I created my own game,
and get the best players - that I think are the best.
If you ever see somebody with it engraved
on the pool table? Leave him alone.
Can't just go.... - So, you a pool shark?
- What?
- Are you good at pool?
- I'm not a pool shark, 'cause sharks do the swimming.
I'm a pool guerrilla. - A guerrilla?
- I tear up stuff. - O.K.
- Come over here to my world's greatest arcade.
- Arcade?
- Back in the day!
These guys playing PlayStation now.
I used to stand up for five and six hours, man!
-Oh man, you have Pac-Man. - Come on, man.
Got like 20 games,
I got Dig Dug, got everything, man.
But you don't know. Let me see what you got.
Oh yeah, O.K., O.K. You might know a little pattern or two.
Oh, you look like you done did this a couple of times.
- Yeah, you know, I got my.... - Oh, man!
- You know. - You tricky,
but you ain't gonna get all of 'em, though.
- You crazy.
- You ain't gonna get all of 'em.
- And I'm gonna get that.
- Yeah, Nate.
Every time I travel, and then I come back....
- Come back home, you come out here?
- ... come back home, I got to come out here
and let 'em know I'm here.
And the way I let 'em know I'm here, I do it like this.
Big Baller's back, baby!
Holla at your boy!
"Oh, man, he's back for sure.
We can tell, he loud again."
- So, BBB in the pool?
- Yes.
- I didn't even see that BBB
on the wall. That's crazy. - Oh yeah,
we got to let 'em know, man. We got to let 'em know.
How do you like that?
- I like it.
You got to show me your putt-putt skills, though.
- Oh, shoot!
- Since we out here.
- Let's get it, let's get it.
It's got to be a ball in there.
- Definitely a ball.
Let me see, which one you want to hit for?
- It don't matter.
- Uh-oh, uh-oh. I'mma go over here by the rocks.
- All the way down?
- Keep your eyes on it all the way down, baby
Check it out.
Watch it, watch it.
Oh, Big Baller's off a little bit.
- It's close.
- Let me see where you're at, though.
- Let me see what I got. - Let's see where you're at.
- To the left a little bit.
- Yeah, yeah. Aw, yeah.
- Right where you're at.
- We the same, we the same.
That's all we got to do.
- Let's talk about how the media try
to portray the kids to be a certain way,
or they try to bash 'em and talk down on 'em.
- Negativity sells.
So, you don't want to hear about all the good stuff
my boys are doing, or the good stuff I'm doing.
It's better to have us riffraff and going at each other,
and that's just what it is.
People look at that better as far as the media.
But people who get to know us is like,
"Man, their not tripping off about that."
So, the best thing to do
is make us go our separate ways,
'cause together as a family, we gonna be super strong.
- Yeah. When people see you,
you know, being hard on your boys,
you know, the little bit of tough love
that you give 'em....
- Right.
- You know, like....
- I mean, that's a saying - tough love.
I don't think it's tough love.
S***, it's just love.
S*** ain't tough if you used to it.
But don't comment on how I'm raising my boys.
How about you get some boys and raise them.
Let me see what you doin'. - Yeah, right.
- But don't be looking all on the outside like,
"You should have did it this way,
you should know."
No, I should do it the exact way I want to do it.
I think as a parent,
that the main thing you want to do is
make sure that your kids
are well taken care of after you leave.
And you just want 'em to do better than what you've done.
- Right.
- I think you've won in life
if you have a passion for doing something
and you happen to get paid for it,
and you can make a living.
That's the best, I think you've won.
- I have four kids,
but I have a son that just entered high school -
freshman, he goes to my high school.
Shout out to Rainier Beach, baby.
Vikings, all day. - Yeah, yeah.
- Do you have any advice for me,
as in dealing with the recruiting process when kids....
You know, when coaches and....
- Don't go to the school because of the name.
Sometime it's better to go to a college
that's maybe closer to home, that has a coach
that believes in you,
that's going to let you do what you do to be successful.
Do you want your family to come see you?
A lot of people say, "Get away from home."
That's if you're talented as hell,
you're in the hood,
all your friends is gangbangers that been in jail,
and they waiting for you to go to school.
And they want to come hang out with you and party.
That's when you say, "I'm going to take my ass to Nebraska.
I got to go to Nebraska."
'Cause you won't have all of your friends
looking for tickets and families and all that.
That's the thing.
But if you already cool in your surrounding,
and you have your family behind you,
why wouldn't you stay home?
- Right.
Do you think all the s*** that you talk -
I would not necessarily say for them,
but just about them - does that
weigh on other players
that really want to, you know,
go after them in the games and, you know....
- But here's this thing right here,
I'm from the hood.
When we beat your ass,
we be like, "Get the hell up out of here,
y'all sorry as hell."
- Talking that s***.
- People be like, "Your boys are nothing like you LaVar,
because they're raised in Chino Hills.
They're not raised in South Central."
I want the best person's game to go at my son the hardest.
That's what competitive stuff is.
So, why would I want everybody to go easy on my sons.
Play your best game against them.
I have confidence in what I put into my boys,
20 years of training, hard work.
Like when I said he was better then Steph Curry.
I don't know what Steph Curry does,
but I know what I did for my boy Lonzo.
So I'll put my stuff up against anybody.
- Facts.
- Until you beat him, that's my product.
- Yeah, so my boy, he goes hard. All of 'em,
they work hard.
I just want them to....
I told him, I said, "Man, I might not be perfect,
but the blueprint of making it is grit,
is the hard work that I put in.
If I don't leave you nothing then I'm going to leave you....
You're going to know how to work hard.
So if you know how to work hard,
you'll know how to do whatever you want."
- Whatever you want!
- Facts.
- People don't look at that hard work like that, man.
I never told them, "When you get 20
you going to have all the money."
I keep telling them, "You trying to be the best ever.
And you already got a better start than Michael Jordan,
on the fact that you're earlier."
My boys win three or four championships in a row?
And win more than six, win seven? You better than Jordan.
- You GOAT.
- You the GOAT, man. Why not?
Somebody got to be.
Hey, but they so young, if they hook up early together?
That's a wrap.
- Man, if you ... listen.
If you pulled that off, bruh,
you need to be going for president.
- Listen, you pull off three Ball brothers
on the same team, bruh. - Same team.
- Listen, bruh.
- You feel me?
- Nate, I appreciate you, dawg.
- Bro, thank you for having me, bro.
- This is lovely, man.
- Appreciate you, bro. Thank you so much.
- Much love.
- I'm going to show you something you ain't seen.
- The Big Baller weight room?
- The Big Baller weight room.
- This that penitentiary pig iron.
You don't know nothing about no 25s, old school.
This that heavy-duty right here, man.
See, you talking about 45s, man.
Look, we got 50s on the ground with the little holes.
- O.K.
- You ain't seen no dude who bench 400, 500.
You ain't seen no boy bench 700.
Dudes in the hood used to do that, where we was at.
Let me tell you, you ain't never heard nobody....
"Hey, that brother do 14 quarters on each side."
You know what's 14 quarters on each side?
- That's crazy.
- Seven hundred, don't nobody hit it like that.
He said, "How many quarters you lift?
He had 14 on each side."
- Uh, that's tough.
- Hey.
- That's too heavy. - Hey.