Jason Sudeikis and his adorable kids sit courtside for Aces-Fever WNBA game
Jason Sudeikis fans got a rare treat Sunday when the “Ted Lasso” star, with a proud-dad smile on his face, posed for photographers with his two young children at a WNBA game in Las Vegas.
Sudeikis, who grew up in Overland Park, is rarely seen in public with Otis, 11, and Daisy, 8, at the same time. Their mother is his ex, actress Olivia Wilde.
Fans got a quick and hysterical look at all three back on Christmas Day 2023 when the kids showed up as Sudeikis talked to WNBA legends Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi on ESPN2 during the New York Knicks-Milwaukee Bucks game.
The littles clearly had been into the sugary Christmas cookies that day. Once they warmed up to being on camera, they stole the show from their Emmy-winning dad.
Sudeikis referred to them as “New York kids” who, because they live down the road from the Barclays Center, get to attend NBA basketball games.
He said the family roots for the Nets, the WNBA’s New York Liberty and, of course, the Kansas Jayhawks, though he never went to KU.
In November, Sudeikis took Otis to the Los Angeles Lakers game against the Orlando Magic in L.A. They sat courtside and smiled for photos.
The two are seen frequently at NBA and soccer games. Otis, expressing allegiance to another “home team,” wore a Kansas City Chiefs sweatshirt on one of their father-son outings.
On Sunday, the trio sat courtside again — of course — at the Las Vegas Aces-Indiana Fever game.
Sudeikis is a superfan of both the New York Liberty and the Fever’s Caitlin Clark, whom he supported when she played college hoop for Iowa.
Maybe one day Daisy will be the next Caitlin Clark? Her dad coaches her basketball team, after all.
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Earlier this year Sudeikis talked about that gig with Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce on their “New Heights” podcast.
“I just think it’s so ironic that now that you are a coach of your daughter’s team, you went back to the Coach Campbell style of coaching,” Travis joked, referencing Sudeikis’ high school basketball coach who inspired the Ted Lasso character.
“Yeah, hollering at her. Just yelling at her,” Sudeikis joked. “‘Just ‘cause you’re 8 years old, doesn’t mean you gotta act like it! For God’s sake. Get outta my gym. Get the hell outta my gym, Daisy!’”
Last year Wilde described their children as her “best friends.” She and Sudeikis were together for nine years before calling off their engagement in 2020.
“They’re so great. They’re huge and they’re so healthy and happy,” she told People. “I already feel like they’re giant teenagers, but we’re having a lot of fun ...
“They’re so active. They’re musicians and they’re athletes and they’re just cool. They both play drums and they sing and we just have a great time. We’re a big karaoke family.”
Sudeikis was just in Kansas City a few weeks ago as co-host of the annual Big Slick Celebrity Weekend.
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