Kobe Bryant on His Harry Potter-Meets-Basketball Book Series, Coaching His Daughter

CLIP03/19/19

Kobe shares Phil Jackson's reaction to him coaching his daughter's middle school basketball team to run triangle offenses and teases turning his Harry Potter-like fantasy basketball novel, The Wizenard Series: Training Camp, into a Broadway production.

Appearing:Jimmy Fallon

Tags: The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon, Kobe Bryant, harry potter, basketball, Book Series, Coaching His Daughter, TSJF Interview

S6 E1056 minInterviewTalk and InterviewLate Night

2018

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