--- title: LeBron James: Here's What His Kids Say When He Loses description: The basketball star says his children don't pull any punches during a stop by Jimmy Fallon to promote his new movie Trainwreck canonical: https://time.com/3958467/lebron-james-jimmy-fallon/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-15T12:10:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:15:47.615Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: LeBron James: Here's What His Kids Say When He Loses og:description: The basketball star says his children don't pull any punches during a stop by Jimmy Fallon to promote his new movie Trainwreck og:url: https://time.com/3958467/lebron-james-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d00aa8386fc9117/698781cce20a87e005a85602/lebron-james.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the game against the Houston Rockets on March 1, 2015 at the Toyota Center in Houston. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: LeBron James: Here's What His Kids Say When He Loses twitter:description: The basketball star says his children don't pull any punches during a stop by Jimmy Fallon to promote his new movie Trainwreck twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d00aa8386fc9117/698781cce20a87e005a85602/lebron-james.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What LeBron James' Kids Tell Him When His Team Loses  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 15, 2015 12:10 PM UTC  LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the game against the Houston Rockets on March 1, 2015 at the Toyota Center in Houston. LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the game against the Houston Rockets on March 1, 2015 at the Toyota Center in Houston.Bill Baptist—NBAE/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 15, 2015 12:10 PM UTC Nobody gives LeBron James a harder time about his basketball game than his kids. The Cleveland Cavaliers player stopped by _The Tonight Show_ with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night and offered the late-night host a sample of the feedback he gets from his children during his off nights: “Daddy, why did you lose?” “Why didn’t you play well tonight?” “It’s your fault you lost.” We’ll see what they say about his acting skills when he appears in Amy Schumer’s _Trainwreck_ movie, in theaters Friday. For now, watch LeBron play “faceketball” with Fallon — it’s exactly what it sounds like. _Read next:_ [_LeBron James Already Has Some Brilliant Ideas for the_ ](http://time.com/3957429/trainwreck-sequel-amy-schumer-lebron-james/?iid=time%5Freadnext)[Trainwreck _Sequel_](http://time.com/3957429/trainwreck-sequel-amy-schumer-lebron-james/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day_](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3958467/lebron-james-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3958467/lebron-james-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Here's What LeBron James' Kids Tell Him When His Team Loses","datePublished":"2015-07-15T12:10:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:15:47.615Z","description":"The basketball star's children don't pull any punches","url":"https://time.com/3958467/lebron-james-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Sports topic","Television","Lebron James"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d00aa8386fc9117/698781cce20a87e005a85602/lebron-james.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d00aa8386fc9117/698781cce20a87e005a85602/lebron-james.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the game against the Houston Rockets on March 1, 2015 at the Toyota Center in Houston.","caption":"LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the game against the Houston Rockets on March 1, 2015 at the Toyota Center in Houston.","creditText":"Bill Baptist—NBAE/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3958467/lebron-james-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Here's What LeBron James' Kids Tell Him When His Team Loses"}}]}] ```