-I'm gonna make a couple of calls so I can see you play
with some guys on your level tomorrow.
-I gotta work. -How old are you?
-22.
-Basketball years are like dog years.
If we're gonna do this, we actually gotta do this now.
-And...how much money will you pay him?
-To come to Philly?
It'll be a pro-rated league minimum.
-But you say he was great, for great, you pay the maximum, no?
-[ Chuckles ] Yeah, yes.
NBA contract of any kind is maximum, no?
-And how much is the minimum?
-Minimum salary in the NBA is $900,000.
-He will call in sick.
-Welcome back to "Late Night." We're here with Adam Sandler.
That was a clip from his new film, "Hustle," which is great.
-Thank you, man. -And this is...
this script came via
Lebron James' production company.
-Yes, yes. -Him and Maverick Carter,
they're wonderful guys. -Great guys,
and they have a movie business,
and they had this great script
about a scout that discovers a guy overseas,
and he tries to get him in the NBA.
It really was amazing.
So I read the script, and I was like,
"This is awesome, and thank you so much for thinking of me."
And I called the guys up, and I said, "I loved it,
I loved the character, and I loved the fact that,
you know, he was a scout.
He's smart, he weighs 220 pounds."
And they were like, "What do you mean with the 220 pounds?"
And I go, "Well, it said it in the script
he weighs 250, right?"
And they go, "You just said 220."
I go, "He weighs 280 pounds..."
[ Laughter ]
"...and I'd love to do it."
And they were like, "Do you weigh that now?"
I said, "No, I'm 160, but I can get there in a day."
[ Laughter ]
-Incredible cast, I mean, you're a natural in it.
Juancho, who's an actual NBA player,
is a fantastic actor in this. -Unbelievable. I know.
-Does it drive you crazy when an athlete's also a good actor?
-All these guys in the movie,
all the NBA guys, they're just cool.
They're cool, they're confident.
They probably, their entire life,
have been told they're cool.
They're just better at everything.
Juancho's just handsome as hell.
He's 6'9", there's no room he doesn't walk into
that everybody doesn't go, "Hey, look at that guy."
So, I don't know, he just --
but he was such a great guy, such a great actor.
And I would tell him after takes,
'cause he would play it so real
and look deep into my eyes and say stuff,
and I was going, "Geez, this guy's good."
But I would tell him how great he was,
and he'd be like, "At what?"
I'd be like, "At that scene, you were just great."
He'd go, "oh, okay."
[ Laughter ]
He didn't care. He didn't care. It meant nothing to him.
-I always thought athletes were great at "SNL",
because they would never get nervous
because it was so meaningless
compared to what they actually did for a living.
-Ah, you're right, you're right. -Like, no athlete
could be so bad on "SNL" they'd get cut from a team.
[ Laughter ] -That's so funny.
-"I'm one of the best players in the world, this is stupid."
-Who did you have? You had Peyton Manning.
-We had Peyton, we had Brady, yeah.
We had Barkley. Did you have Barkley?
-We had Barkley, too. Great, funny guy.
We had Barkley, we had Michael Jordan.
When I was there, Michael Jordan hosted.
He hung out with us.
That was, like, we were so in love with him.
Everyone was in love with MJ
'cause he was such a sweetheart and so nice to us.
And he would say your name.
Remember when a superstar says your name,
you're just like, "He knows my name."
And it's just incredible. You know what's funny?
I don't know if I ever told you this -- Bruce Springsteen.
I love Bruce Springsteen, and so I was working out --
I might've told this story, but I'll tell it anyways
and you can cut it out if it's too long.
So I went to a gym on, like, 60th Street in East Side.
I used to work out.
I used to go,
"I'm not as funny as everybody on the show,
but I'm gonna look better."
[ Laughter ]
Right, so anyways, I work out, I go to this gym,
and I'm working out at this real crappy gym.
I forget the name of it.
But anyways, I keep seeing this guy.
I'm like, "That guy looks like Bruce Springsteen."
So I go, "Oh, this can't be Bruce Springsteen."
Anyway, I'm going, "From that angle,
it looks like Bruce Springsteen.
We're working out at the same gym.
There're no way he'd be at this crap gym," blah, blah, blah.
Anyways, I know I'm talking a lot, but here we go.
So [laughs] anyways,
Bruce Springsteen walks by, I'm on the thing that --
this one, I'm doing this.
He stops right on me, I'm looking right at Springsteen.
I'm like, "That is Bruce Springsteen."
He goes, "Hey." I go, "Hey."
And he goes, "I know you," and I go, "You do?"
And he goes, "You're, uh, Allan Stanley."
[ Laughter ] And I go, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
So, anyways, I come back to the show,
and I see Farley, I'm like, "Dude,
I saw Bruce Springsteen at the gym."
He's like, "No you didn't." I go, "He knew me! He knew me!"
And he's like, "There no way that's -- there's no way."
I go, "He called me Allan Stanley, but he knew me,
he recognized me from the show," and blah, blah, blah.
So anyways, and then everyone's kind of, the next day,
walking around, they're going, they're saying, like,
"You're lying."
And I was like, "It was Bruce Springsteen,
he knew me," and blah, blah, blah.
So, like, two years later,
Springsteen is the musical guest on the show,
and he's coming by
and he's saying hi to everybody and blah, blah, blah.
And I'm standing there, I'm like, "There's no way," right?
Then he looks at me and goes, "Hey, man,"
and everyone kind of looks and he goes,
"You still go to that gym?"
[ Laughter ] And I was like, "That's right."
[ Laughter ]
-Allan Stanley! -Allan Stanley.
-Keeping it tight. -Yeah.
-Hey, congratulations on the film. It's fantastic.
It is always the best to have you here.
You guys, Adam Sandler. [ Cheers and applause ]
"Hustle" in select theaters now
and available on Netflix tomorrow.
We'll be right back with James Patterson.