--- title: Watch This Guy Absolutely Crush Kids at Daycare Basketball description: These kids don't stand a chance against a guy who decided to become a daycare basketball superstar — and shared the security footage. canonical: https://time.com/5382953/daycare-basketball/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-30T17:03:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:37.192Z og:title: Guy Goes Viral for Crushing Kids at Daycare Basketball og:description: The kids don't stand a chance against this viral basketball player og:url: https://time.com/5382953/daycare-basketball/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Guy Goes Viral for Crushing Kids at Daycare Basketball twitter:description: The kids don't stand a chance against this viral basketball player twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Man Goes Viral for Absolutely Crushing Some Little Kids at Daycare Basketball  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 30, 2018 5:03 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 30, 2018 5:03 PM UTC All’s fair in love and [basketball](http://time.com/5328740/australia-basketball-philippines/) — even basketball played at a [daycare](http://time.com/5186600/daycare-kiddie-junction-des-plaines-illinois/) center. At least, that seems to be the belief of a guy who[ shared a video](https://sports.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/ne5pa7/man-at-daycare-spends-time-wrecking-kids-at-the-rim?utm%5Fsource=vicefbus) of him playing a bunch of toddlers at daycare and absolutely owning the young competitors in shot after shot. The now-viral star, who identifies himself as Ronnell Lee on [Instagram](http://time.com/5373345/kelly-marie-tran-breaks-silence-instagram-harassment/), somehow cobbled together a supercut of security footage of him playing about a dozen different kids in their carpeted play space. Every time, he manages to dunk on the tiny contenders — and block all of their attempts. “DONT LEAVE YOUR KIDS AROUND ME!!!!!” he captioned the video that he shared last weekend, to which he added music to complete the viewing experience; it’s since gone viral, with over 50,000 views. “No negative comments,” he added. It’s unclear if Lee works at the daycare or how else he had access to the play space and security video, but it all seems in good fun — as long as the kids recover from the injuries to their egos, that is. (There are also more than a few tumbles as they try to keep up with Lee’s tenacious moves and slide across the carpet, although they seem to get back to their feet without too much trouble.) Most of Lee’s other Instagram photos show what appears to be an impressive Nike sneaker collection, so perhaps the daycare activities were at least a way to give the shoes a workout without getting them dirty on a real court. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5382953/daycare-basketball/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5382953/daycare-basketball/"},"headline":"Man Goes Viral for Absolutely Crushing Some Little Kids at Daycare Basketball","datePublished":"2018-08-30T17:03:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:37.192Z","description":"Life isn't fair — and neither is daycare","url":"https://time.com/5382953/daycare-basketball/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5382953/daycare-basketball/","name":"Man Goes Viral for Absolutely Crushing Some Little Kids at Daycare Basketball"}}]}] ```