Ryan Leak

On the Queen Latifah show, my wife in the Queen surprised me by getting me connected with the late, great Kobe Bryant.

Comes on a video, says, hey, Ryan, heard about this fabulous wedding that you had for your bride and just wanted to return the favor and invite you out to Staples Center to come hang out with me and the Lakers.

I passed out on Queen Latifah's couch and I had three months to prepare to meet Kobe.

And I was thinking like, man, I've never actually like,

tried to really go for this professional basketball thing.

But I've always like, I would go to games and I would be like, man, he should have went left, man.

He should have went right.

Like I always had this idea, like I could do their job better than they could, but I'd never actually done anything about it.

And so in getting ready to meet Kobe, I said, I'm going to get back in all American D three is shape.

And I'm going to go for it.

I started playing a friend of mine who had just got cut from the Chicago bulls.

And I,

He beat me every single time pretty easily.

I'm 6'3", 205 pounds.

He's 6'5", about 245.

So there was a pretty big gap between us.

And I was like, man, just forget this, dude.

Like, you're not going to make it in the league.

Just go meet Kobe.

Take a picture like a normal person and just go home.