Former NBA player Kenny Smith and his wife Gwendolyn Osborne-Smith pose for a portrait to promote their TBS network reality series "Kenny Smith and Family" on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)
Former NBA player Kenny Smith and his wife Gwendolyn Osborne-Smith pose for a portrait to promote their TBS network reality series "Kenny Smith and Family" on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)

“A lot of times you guys let me into your living room, and now I get an opportunity to let you into my living room with my lovely wife, Gwendolyn, and our five, yes, five, cinco, kids,” said Smith, who currently is working as an analyst on CBS during their NCAA men’s basketball tournament coverage. “We’re a blended family.”

Two of the Smiths’ older children are girls, a special challenge for their 50-year-old father.

“It’s difficult to see my daughters on television and in music videos, and then I get tweets or comments about crushes and, ‘Hey, can I date? And, hey, I’d be a good son-in-law type,”’ he said. “I don’t need a gun to protect them, because they’re smart young ladies. But I have one.”

Gwendolyn, laughing, is quick to point out that her husband really doesn’t own a firearm.