Shooting Hoops & Flossing with L.A. Clippers' Boban Marjanović

You show me your moves, you show me your moves in dance. Done. Okay, deal. Everything opposite. I'm failing at flossing. Boban Marjanovic next to me, all 7'3". Wow. Of him. Are you on the keto diet? I can't hear you. Boban Marjanović: 7'3" and a half.

7'3" and a half. Yeah, thank you. Lesley Robbins here for young Hollywood all 5'4" of me. Boban Marjanović: You pronounce my name is so good. Are you practice?

Yeah, a little bit of practice. Okay, perfect. We are here crashing your practice. We're at the Clippers facility here in Los Angeles. We're coming up on your one year anniversary of you being here. Boban Marjanović: Yes, almost.

What has been most surprising to you being in the city of Los Angeles? Boban Marjanović: You know, when you have a son everybody has smile on the face. Of course, maybe I need to mention first, people around me, it's amazing. I really like to be here.

Well, you like to be here. You have your bromance on the team that makes it that much better. Boban Marjanović: Uh, with the boys, like we have friendship, we have friends. We have fun what we do outside of the court. I have fun, we like by ourselves. Friendship is so, it's so powerful uh no just for us. I think for everybody and everybody need to keep their friends and enjoy with them in that time. It's funny how I sound like so smart, you know.

Take me back to Serbia. You were a young boy. When did this growth spurt happen? Can we can we talk about it? Boban Marjanović: I was taller than everybody. I was smarter than everybody. I was good looking than everybody. No. Of course. And uh and uh like from the beginning, of course, like when I when like immediately when I start, you know, like it's my basically my friends, like it's like a girl's size. I'm like a teacher's size, you know, like and this is like this is like start in that time, I will I will know what I'll be tall. Like and it's not like I was regular size and then one moment I was like 7'3".

7'3" and a half. I just mentioned that to you, now I make my mistake. Now, I have to Do you get your clothes custom made? Is there a shop for you? Boban Marjanović: Basically, in the United States, you can find the clothes. If you cannot find they'll try to make for you.

Shoe size? Boban Marjanović: Shoe size 20.

Weight? Boban Marjanović: 297, 8. They go up and down but 300, 300 pounds.

You weigh almost 300 pounds. Well, you have a lot of body. But you're ripped also. You are ripped. Boban Marjanović: Yes. Yeah, this is me.

So how do you maintain that? Boban Marjanović: With that weight and with that like uh muscle, I try to like because I'm tall, I try to my muscle be stronger because like my body need to like that muscle need to hold my body. Basically, you know, when you start to lift, you never enough. You know, I say, "Hey, I want to stay more to live." They say, "I must go home." You must go home sometimes. And uh and this is like I don't want to go home, you know, like like a small baby. Like my son do that to me and I do that to him. They do that to them and of course, they win. My son win. I have every time lost basically.

Oh. What's the funniest thing or most surprising thing you're learning as a parent? Boban Marjanović: When you're like youngest and you think like this like 30 years old guy, it's so smart, you know, like he know everything. But now I'm 30 years older and I remember like, hey my kids like sometimes like I can like learn from something like, you know, like everybody make mistakes. But you know in that moment of mistakes, you learn better and sometimes they like they they bigger lesson for me and they show me like I make a lot of mistakes and sometimes they're right.

Now I know part of your family tradition, food is a big thing for you, of course and soup. Boban Marjanović: Yeah, I like soup. I love it. I don't like, I love it.

I love soup too. Boban Marjanović: In Serbia, we start meal with the soup. You know, they ask you, what kind of soup you want? Like basically, every meal starts with a soup and it's like our tradition. Tomato soup, mushroom soup, pumpkin soup. Butternut squash is the best one.

Butternut squash is the best one. I love it. It's my favorite. Sweetened though. Boban Marjanović: Sweet like they put they put little bit like like some seeds inside.

So I see you're using your hands a lot while you talk. Boban Marjanović: You know, because my English is not so good and I was like, hey let's go to to improve it with my hands.

But you're usually holding a ball. We're practice. We practice but we we cannot broke the board. Just no, don't broke the board. Boban Marjanović: I can't make any promises.

Okay, deal. You're ready to go. Oh, okay. But before you play basketball, I want to dance. You show me my moves, you show me your moves in dance. Done. Okay, deal. I just secretly like high fiving you. Okay, huh. Okay, you throw me ball, you just do this. I waited you to do this. No way. Hey, you you you broke your face. You know, it's everything it's a practice. Oh, you know it. Yeah. Are you are you practice? You practice like my name, you practice the basketball? No. You play before? No. Close your eyes and shoot. Try it. But be on the be on the front. It's easier.

Where would you like me to go? Boban Marjanović: There. Close your eyes. Okay. Oh, that's hard. We need what? You throw me alley-oop. Oh, okay. Okay. Ready? Yeah. Oh. Nice. Good job. Woohoo. I showed you my basketball moves. Oh, but you showed me which weren't so bad, right? Boban Marjanović: No, it's good. I really like it. I surprised. I surprised they're good.

Thank you. Yeah. Now, keeping your word, friend, we gotta dance. Okay. I don't I don't know how to dance here. See oh, do you know how I can't do that. Do you know how to do it? Go like this. This is called flossing, right? Yeah. Okay. Hold this. Pop. Move the hands front and do it again. Same stuff. Everything opposite. I think my basketball game is better than my flossing. You say you better dance than you're a basketball player but you're a basketball player and a dance. So you're saying my basketball is better than my dancing? Boban Marjanović: Yes. From you, here. Another excuse. Get a high five. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much.