Caitlin Clark Shoots Cheeseballs into Jimmy's Mouth, Talks Nike Friendship Bracelet Caitlin 1s

I'm a giant fan. I want to get into your new book. I want to get into everything. I'm so happy that you're here. I want to show something that you brought. This is a drawing you did, a project you did, in the third grade. It's called Future Dreams. And this is, you filled this out in third grade. And look at this. Number one was V in the WNBA. We did it. Kalen. A lot of these dreams... It's interesting that's at number one. That is number one, and you did your future dream in the third grade. But a lot of these you did. Number nine was get a basketball scholarship. Well, you did that as well. I like this. Number 12 was you want to have two Bernese Mountain Dogs. Yeah. Hasn't happened yet, but... That hasn't happened yet? No. Well, we're about... Why don't you give me any? Ladies and gentlemen... Here? No, I'm just kidding. That's me. I should have done that, by the way. Yeah. I like number five is own a restaurant. Yeah, I did want to own a restaurant. I still do. But when I was a kid, like, I had this, like, weird obsession with ribs. I don't know why. I think because my mom never wanted to make them. My brothers didn't like ribs. So I always asked for ribs on my birthday. So I wanted this place to be called the Rib Crib. Barbecue food. Which is strange. I know. I had, like, the land picked out. It's since, like, people have built on the land. It's like a similar living home now. Yeah, but you're like, that's where the Rib Crib, it's the home of the Rib Crib. Yeah, so I don't think that's going to work out for me, but we can do something else. We can pivot. I always wanted to do a restaurant called Booth's. Because my mom loved booths. Any restaurant we would go to, I was like, do you have a booth? Tooth. Do you have a booth? Yeah, and I was like, what if the restaurant was only booths? Booths. Just booths. She would be so happy. Yeah, you could have themed booths. All right, I'll put that in in my restaurant. One could be rib crib booth. Like, each booth is a different thing. Anyways, think about it and just cut me in on that. I got you. Give you a cut. You're very competitive on the court. Were you always competitive growing up? Always competitive. You were. Any game, any board game, any video game? Literally anything. Any board game growing up, I did not like to lose. Candyland was probably my favorite. Game growing up now Catan is probably my favorite game right now. Yes played tons. Yeah, it's the greatest which I like my attention span It's not great So I didn't think I would like it at first but like once you figure it out and like you start strategizing and part of It is luck And then I get mad that I can't win. So then I have to keep playing but I want your sheep. I was competitive Yeah, exactly. I don't I don't want your sheep. Yeah, I want hey man Yeah But I read somewhere that you played Nerf Hoop with your brothers. Yeah, I cracked his head open, my little brother's head open. Correct. Yeah. You cracked his head open. He's lucky he doesn't have a buzz cut anymore, or else he'd have a gigantic scar in the back of his head, so. That's an intense game of Nerf. I mean, I was trying to win. Like, what am I supposed to be doing? What did your mom and what? Oh, she was mad. I was in trouble. It was like, you know, I grew up in the Midwest, so, like, there's snow day. So, I'm pretty sure it was a snow day. I was at home, and I was like, me and my little brother were playing on this Nerf Hoop in the basement. It's like where two walls meet. with two hands and I just chucked him into the wall and hit his head just right and he like he didn't really react then he put his head back or his hand back and it was just like a cup of blood oh my gosh oh my gosh he taught him a lesson yeah exactly yeah absolutely what's up uh you've done something that not only a few a handful of athletes have done you came out with your own nike signature shoe this is a fantastic thing the caitlin ones The blue colorway, I saw there's a yellow one. Yellow's out. Yellow's out now. The hot pink, but this one's not out yet. This is the friendship bracelet colorway. Only you have worn this one. Yes, but I do have something for you. Come on. I brought you a little gift. Caitlyn. Nobody has these other than me so far. Are you serious? I brought a little gift for Jimmy. Dude, I'm freaking out right now. Look at those. They even put the, so. Oh, my God. Can you see this? It says, two-night, two-night show. Yeah. Come on. Wait, are you kidding me? Aren't they amazing? I love these. Yeah, so they come with charms, and then everybody will be able to, like, kind of make it their own, which I think is fun, because you can pick a color, but you don't really get to, like, customize the shoe, and you buy it off the shelf. I'm going to put them on right now. Do you mind? Do it. Are these inspired by your buddy, Taylor Swift? Yeah. Obviously, I'm a big Taylor fan. Me, too. Me, too. Yeah, she's the best, you know. And I think a lot of my games, like, people always bring friendship bracelets. They want to trade. So I was like, let's put it on a shoe. How fun. People can make it their own. When is this shoe coming out? I think it's, like, in late February. So, yeah. I want to show that angle of it. I'm so excited about this. Thank you for doing this. I want to talk to you about your book, Extraordinary, by the way. This is a little extra to reach big dreams. Congrats on this. I love this because any book, anything that's going to get kids reading, I love. But also anything that's going to inspire them as well. And the thing that I really loved about this, this is a real photo in here, from your bedroom. You had a mirror. In your bedroom, the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is a little extra. And this is your real thing that was in your room. I think that's why I, like, loved writing the book is because this is a story that was so impactful in my life. Like, and I get to share that with so many young people and just really special. And whose idea was it to get you this mirror? I think my mom's. I won't give my dad too much credit. My dad will also give my mom a lot of credit. But my parents, yeah. That's wild. And you kind of, and it made you push yourself and go a little extra and everything. Yeah. And I think every kid reading this is going to be like, yeah, I love this. I can relate to these kids. Thank you, kids. But also, they don't have to be athletes. No, they don't. It's just in general. I think it's just, I think that's kind of like what I've always said is like, as a young person, I hope you watch me play and you feel inspired to just want to achieve whatever it was. And growing up, I had idols that weren't always basketball players, too. Like, I loved athletes and other sports or whatever it was. So I hope people read this book. I feel like they can dream and they can imagine. Like, I feel like the illustrations are so creative and so bright. Great job. It's gorgeous. There are Easter eggs up here, too. Like, my dad's number was number six. Obviously, the girl scoring is number 22. That's mine. Yeah, yeah, of course. That might be a little selfish. You had to do that. Yeah, you had to do that. You had to be a little selfish. And then some other Easter eggs. But, yeah, no, it turned out amazing. I'm really proud of it. It's so great. I love it. And also, I like there's a message in here, too. Like, even when you don't have a winning day, it's going to be fine. I think that's probably my favorite. My favorite specific part is about courage. When you get knocked down, you've got to get back up. I think sometimes as an athlete, people think it's so glamorous and easy all the time, but it's not. There's hard moments, and just having courage and confidence in yourself to achieve whatever. Good for you. I agree. I appreciate it. I love this. Caitlin, you're one of the greatest shooters in basketball history, but tonight I want to test your accuracy in a whole new way. I want to see how many cheese balls you can shoot into my mouth in 24 seconds. Where are you going to be? Okay, it's time for the cheese ball challenge. Here we go, yeah. All right, you can play this at home, okay? The rules are very simple. We have to stand at least... Parents might not be happy about that. No, yeah, no. We're encouraging it. Yeah, no, this is fun, because they look like little basketballs. This might be hard. We have to stand at least six feet apart. Caitlin, let's stand at the end of the couch here. Here, you can grab the cheeky ball. All right, and then I'm going to... Oh, you're going to be here? No, no, you stand here, but I'm going to measure six feet using my Caitlin ones. One, two, three, four. Five. It has to be exactly six feet. There we go. This is six feet apart, okay? Now you have 24 seconds to get as many cheese balls into my mouth as you can. I'm going to have cheese fingers after this. You can only throw one cheese ball at a time. If you throw more than one cheese ball at a time, you are immediately disqualified. All right. I didn't know the rules were that hard. All right, can we get 24 seconds on the shot clock? Time starts now. It's going to reach big.