♪ >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live: game night!" tonight -- adam sandler. and a public service announcement from t.i. presented by juicy fruit. with cleto and the cletones. and now, in overtime, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hola, i'm jimmy. we are coming to you now in primetime, which is the primest time of all of them. tonight, game four of the nba finals from the quicken loans arena, which makes sense it would be from quicken loans arena because ticket prices are so high, a lot of fans have to

take a quicken loan out to get a seat. the city of cleveland is, as you can imagine, abuzz. if the cavaliers win, not only would it be the first nba title in the history of cleveland, it would be the first sports championship for the city since 1964. cleveland hasn't even appeared in a super bowl, which is -- even the d peas have appeared in a super bowl. city of cleveland hasn't enjoyed a title in more than 50 years no one in cleveland even knows how to high five anymore. they do this. golden state warriors have had a long dry spell, too. the last time they won was in 1975. simon and garfunkel, to give you an idea, were still married, the last time these guys won a title. so, it's a very long time. here's a weird bit of finals trivia for you if you don't follow bnl cloasketball closely. mark jackson, one of the commentators for espn, was the warriors coach last season. they fired him and replaced him with steve kerr and now he's

working the games and he's sitting there commenting on his -- it's -- it's like getting hired to be the d.j. at your ex-girlfriend's wedding. it's awkward. [ laughter ] speaking of embarrassing situations, this is pretty good. youtube video of warriors superstar stephen curry has been getting a lot of traction this week. the video was posted in 2009, when curry was a student at davidson college. he took part in -- this is always a bad idea. he was part of one of these rap videos with funny lyrics attached to it. this one was about the school cafeteria. ♪ there's sunday brunch's golden rule ♪ ♪ and last night's girl thinks you're a tool ♪ ♪ talk world eye contact ♪ just isn't cool >> jimmy: okay, so -- i have to say, this sort of thing makes me so happy, youtube didn't exist when i was in college. and curry isn't alone. he rapped and over the years, so many players have veered into

the world of rap music. oftentimes, with disastrous results. so, to raise awareness of and hopefully put an end to this disturbing trend, we asked one of the world's most famous rappers to speak out, to make sure no nba player ever falls victim to this terrible temptation again. >> i'm the reason why your momma won. ♪ ♪ make it to the street corner ♪ who am i that's good? all right, cool. hey, what's happening? i'm tip, t.i. harris. when i'm in the studio, i know it's where i'm meant to be. i mean, music is my life. rapping is pretty much what i do. but sometimes, nba players make the mistake of thinking that it's what they do, too. [ laughter ] check out metta world peace for example. ♪ all test ♪ triple x ♪ in the league ♪ in the league >> in the league, many fouls. in the league, many texts.

well, if that isn't a metta world peace of [ bleep ], i don't know what it is. even an international all-star from france chose to get behind the mike. ♪ baby ♪ i'm the ♪ baby ♪ i'm the -- >> tony, if it wasn't my respect for foreign policy, you'd likely get that beret slapped the [ bleep ] off your head, man. and four-time scoring champ kevin durant's rapping career was certainly not the real mvp ♪ yeah ♪ i don't care if they underrate kev ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ and i don't care ♪ what they got in play ♪ smooth in the building ♪ i swear i ain't playing tape >> i think this is best summed up by little b. [ bleep ] ♪ >> not that he's much better. but i tote it will agree with

his message. and such a beautiful singi inin voice. time and time again, players try to be playas. refer to your ebonics dictionary and it will all make sense. all too often, they end up like my partner shaq, who was even worse at rapping than he was at shooting free throws. consider this from shaq diesel's masterpiece, "i know i got skills." and i quote -- but shaq's a smooth baller. i can hold my own. knickkna knickknack, shaq attack. give a dog a bone. end quote. now, while i have a lot of love and respect for these guys greatness on the court, that isn't rap. shaq is not a rapper. just like i am not a basketball player. >> paid for my players ain't playas. [ cheers and applause ]

>> jimmy: thank you, tip, t.i. harris. we have to take a break, but we shall return. it's our nba game night special. i go in the dunk tank with the athlete known as adam sandler, and we'll be back with adam right after this. song: rachel platten "fight song" ♪ two million, four hundred thirty-four thousand, three hundred eleven people in this city. and only one me. ♪ i'll take those odds. ♪ be unstoppable. the all-new 2015 ford edge. ♪ ♪

wheawhat are you,ake? a suspender---wearing hipster trying to grow his first beard? sounds so much better on vinyl. don't waste taste. drink pepsi max. ♪all the monkeys down there dance cheek to cheek♪ ♪and the lizards in the trees make a freaky squeak♪ ♪if you get real lucky you can sneak a peek♪ >> jimmy: hi, welcome back to our game four game night special.

we are having the primetime of our lives. we'll be on early on sunday, too, alongside game five with channing tatum and the cast of "magic mike xxl." i'm going to play against channing in a dunk tank challenge. which, whoever loses, we'll get wet and the ladies win. we have a dunk tank challenge tonight, too, and a new show at our regular time tonight with zoe saldana, tyler the creator, and music from r-5. our guest tonight is a treasured american, whose movies have made more money in the last ten years than china. he has a big new one coming up next, as he saves the planet from pacman in "pix ms." it opens in theaters july 24th. please welcome adam sandler. [ cheers and applause ]

>> thank you, hi, guys. thank you, all right. >> jimmy: good to see you. what happened here? >> nice to see you. thank you. i got -- i got hit -- i got hit. >> jimmy: who hit you? >> i -- so, it was -- it's -- i try to be quick, so, i'm driving in my car with my family, back tire blows up. swear to god. i look in the rear view mirror on the 405. i see a tire rolling, i was like, whose tire is that? it was my tire. so, anyways, i didn't know what to do. i didn't know how to change my tire, like, i didn't even know where the tire was. so, i -- i -- i'm driving on three tires for about ten minutes. i swear to god. my family is like, you have to pull over. i was like, no, you're supposed to -- and i just kept going on three tires. i pull over and i send my family home to -- my brother-in-law picked up the rest of my family. i said, i'll take care of this, don't worry. i was parked in front of veteran

park and there's a basketball going, so, i go, let me sneak a little hoop in there. [ laughter ] so, i play -- i figured i would look cool, i'll take care of the tire and get some hoop in there and then i'm playing and i got, some guy didn't call out a pick, i ran into this giant head, smacked my head and -- it's blowing up and then, you know, i couldn't lie about it. i came home with the black eye and i had to tell the truth, i hired a guy to change the tire. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that is a ridiculous story. >> it was long. >> jimmy: i would have imagined that -- you had a tire blow out, you would just stop the car, wherever you were on the freeway, helicopter would come land and take you and your family back to your mansion. >> that's what i was expecting, but nothing -- >> jimmy: nothing like that? wow. the stars really are just like us. [ laughter ] >> atta boy, jimmy. >> jimmy: the way you dress is exactly how i'm dressed until eight minutes before the show starts every single night. wanted to put something better, but couldn't find

anything. >> jimmy: you're fine. i'm excited about your movie. people have seen the commercials for it. these characters are the ones from, like, our youth. >> me and you always got that in common. >> jimmy: that's right. >> we like the same stuff. >> jimmy: asteroid, donkey kong. did you go to an arcade when you were a kid? >> yes, the name of the arcade in the movie is the electric factory, that's what it was -- >> jimmy: that's the real arcade? >> i named it that so the kids in my town would go, yeah, i went there. that was the greatest place ever. when arcades first came out, it was the -- because before about kalds, you had to stay home and, like, talk to your parents and stuff. [ laughter ] and then all of a sudden, you were like, taking the bus, we'd go downtown, you'd hang out, all these kids in there smoking, like, the sign said, you can't smoke unless you're 16 years old, but literally, like, half my little league was in there. [ laughter ] i was like, whoa, this is a dangerous place. >> jimmy: really?

>> yeah, and it was right next to manchester music. you would go, by a -- you'd by an album, you know, like, i got elo, i remember getting elo, what is it -- >> jimmy: strange magic or something? >> no, it's a living thing. that one. and i had queen and i got, like, whatever, bay city rollers. >> jimmy: you got the soundtrack to all your movies is basically what you got. >> exactly. it was the best. >> jimmy: that was the best. would your parents give you money to transfer into quarters at the arcade? >> sure. my father was like, you get one quarter. [ laughter ] go have a good time. i was like -- i used to -- no, my family -- and i heard -- you heard a similar thing. my father was like, when you went out to dinner, you would -- you were only allowed -- which was rare, by the way, going out to dinner was just like, holy -- >> jimmy: same with our family. almost never happened. once every three months, tops. >> right, right.

>> jimmy: and it was like a and w rootbeer. no waiters. >> we would go to ground round. >> jimmy: yeah. >> eat the peanuts! my father would make us eat the peanuts. you get one coke and you'd finish the coke and i remember, if you wanted a second coke, the beating your father would give you, just like -- i have pizza left and there's -- you drink it. >> jimmy: it never occurred to me to get a second soda. in fact, when my ex-wife, when we first started dating, she world earled a second soda at a male and i was like, who the hell is this woman? what is she, a rockefeller? who orders a second coke? >> that's great. >> jimmy: it was outrageous. were the kids bad, smoking, or were they just regular kids? >> they were cool kids. this is where i learned about cool people. there was a nice kid, chucky blaze -- >> jimmy: hold on, what? >> his name was chucky blaze. chucky blaze looked the coolest, i thought, in my town. he had curly hair and he wore

tinted glasses and he -- i saw him, i think, where, if i remember correctly, i'm sure he's watching, but he -- he had overalls with no shirt on. >> jimmy: nice. >> the girls were going bananas for him. he had cult at arms up, he was playing the games. i was like, i got to do that, man. i did it. i just made the choice on a sunday night, i'm going to do this on monday to school, i'm going overalls, no shirt. tinted glasses. and it was the biggest beating i ever received. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's -- >> tie die. i had tie die, my sister tie died my overalls. >> jimmy: is chucky blaze his real name? >> chucky blaze. i remember, chucky blaze was, like, the coolest -- he was a very studly dude. and julian whiz was the toughest guy in my town and i always wanted a z in my name, the blaze

and the whiz. when i first moved to hollywood, my head shot, i put adam zandler. >> jimmy: you know why julian was the toughest kid in your town? >> because his name was julian? >> jimmy: because nobody beats the whiz. >> that's right. >> jimmy: adam sandler is here. "pix ms" is the movie. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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let's hit it! >> pacman's faster than i remember. >> pacman's always been faster than the ghosts. we're going to have to outmaneuver. >> we got him! he's got nowhere to go! >> oh, god, no. >> get out, he's going to eat you!

>> jimmy: that is "pixels." adam sandler's new movie. [ cheers and applause ] your buddy kevin james is in the movie. playing the president of the united states. >> he's excellent. >> jimmy: you -- this is a great idea for a movie. i don't like seeing pacman as a bad guy. i never imagined that. >> shook me up. >> jimmy: it's real -- >> it looks really awesome. >> jimmy: it's a huge budget movie. >> yes, yes. it's like the real deal. it's so cool that i'm in one of these. it's very exciting for the rest of my life, i get to go, look at that, look how cool the sandman is. okay, so -- [ laughter ] it's a big budget movie, right? and i did a movie after that that wasn't a big budget and i tried to do this quickly, so -- >> jimmy: okay. >> my movie after didn't have the same budget and i was going to new mexico. and i flew there with my buddy locker and so me and locker -- i rented this really tiny plane, you know, because -- whatever.

i get on this little tiny thing and we're flying, i'm like, let me get this trip to new mexico done with, it's two hours or something. so, 20 minutes into the flight, i swear to god, me and locker are in the back, sitting, we look up and the pilot and the co-pilot have on, like, crazy gas masks. and, like, and we're just like -- and we look at each other, we're like, do you see that? and then -- and then, they're hitting buttons in the cockpit, frantically and reading manuals. [ laughter ] i swear to god. and nobody's saying anything to us and me and locker are just like -- what -- we're going to die. this is crazy. i didn't think this was going to be how it happens. so, but -- and so, we're just kind of being cool and just pretending, i don't know, you go into some weird thing, pretending it's not happening. and i see my buddy texting and he's texting, "we're going down.

i will always love you. even in heaven." and i go -- [ laughter ] what are you doing? don't -- don't send that! he goes, i go -- [ laughter ] he's like,ly try not to cheat on you in heaven. [ laughter ] whatever. so, anyways, we -- it was just something weird, emergency -- the air pressure went out and they hit -- it was boiling hot on the plane for, like 20 seconds. >> jimmy: why didn't you get masks? i said that when we landed. i was like, why did you get the masks? they're like, it's standard procedure. i'm league -- >> jimmy: great. >> it was scary. >> jimmy: that is scary. how did you get back? >> i just -- no, they had another little plane waiting and i go, no, i just prayed i would touch the ground again, i'm never getting on another plane in my life and i just got in a car and drove to santa fe after that. >> jimmy: you did? >> we were shook up.

it was the weirdest feeling. >> jimmy: i don't blame you. well -- i'm glad you're alive. >> thank you. >> jimmy: but we're going to do something. maybe you won't be so glad you're alive anymore when we come back, because we got a dunk tank challenge. i see you've been practicing your basketball. we can see that scar on your face. >> so far, you've been losing a lot. >> jimmy: well, i haven't done well. it turns out, i'm not that good at basketball. >> you have a good shot, though. >> jimmy: we'll see about that. [ laughter ] >> all right. >> jimmy: it's -- there's a lot of pressure. you're over a dunk tank and the water is cold. for no reason, the water is cold. i feel like the staff is putting ice cubes in the water before i get out there. when we come back, adam sandler's been kind enough to accent the dunk tank challenge. go see his movie. it's called "pixels," july 24th we'll be right back. >> dicky: portions of "jimmy kimmel live: game night" are brought to you by juicy fruit. so sweet, you can't help but

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>> jimmy: well, hi, welcome back to our nba game night special. as you can see, directly below me is a large double dunk tank full of very cold water. i have no idea why it has to be this cold, but it is time to play sink it or swim. [ cheers and applause ] sitting directly across from me, one of the greatest players in nba history, mr. adam sandler, everybody. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: adam has been warming up for this particular event. >> when i was 9 years old, i've been dreaming of this moment. >> jimmy: you've been dreaming of this moment and trim to make it a reality. the water boy is about to go where he came from, into the water, folks. >> yes. >> jimmy: guillermo is the

lifeguard in case anyone needs to be rescued and needs their stomach pumped, yes. [ cheers and applause ] >> i can swim very little. >> jimmy: the referee tonight is cousin sal. explain the rules to adam and to our audience. >> very simple. i'm going to blow my whistle. you are going to start shooting. the first one to make a shot dunks the other. you guys ready? >> well -- sal. happy birthday to archie, your son. >> that's very nice of you. >> jimmy: very nice. all right. >> keep the splashing to the minimum. we're in the middle of a drought. ready? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i was so close! did we see how close that was? >> it was close. >> in and out. >> jimmy: well, there you go. adam sandler -- thanks, adam.

really appreciate it. i'm urinating right now. apologies to matt damon. i will dunk him some other time. we have another new show later tonight, with zoe saldana, tyler the creator and music from r-5. game four of the nba finals is next here on abc.

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the following is a special presentation of espn on abc.al ♪ the next game is the most important game. i'm just trying to do whatever it takes, man, at this point. i have no choice. >> these guys are playing a million miles an hour. >> they're playing like it's the nba finals. ♪ >> alley-oop to james! and he throws it down! >> and we're playing regular season hard. ♪ >> right now, we're up 2-1 in the series and everything's still very much wide open. >> and