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I got a couple beats for our theme song soon. And me and. Me and the kid, if you haven't heard, we're heading down to the mia yo next week to be on the main shino. You dig it? And so I'm gonna show you a couple of them example tracks I got. You feel me?
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I love. I love that. I love Miami. It is just one of. I cannot wait to go down for the main show. I'm a ceviche maniac. There's a restaurant called the mandolin. I think it's too expensive for how much I get paid, but I've been wanting to go there for years. And guess what? I'm gonna make a resi. No hesi. We've got a white elephant party on Wednesday. Me and juju are gonna come with the alley oop show.com promo so you guys can start subscribing to our sub stack.
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You did.
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We're here. It's up. It's so peak. It's peak. Like LeBron has never left juju. Oh, my God. Can we cut into the tape?
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Come on, man. All the way up, man. You got to know. And speaking of up, right now on itunes, by the kid right now, featuring Jay. Nice. Check it out whenever you can in your free time, but neither here nor there. Lebron James is still doing LeBron James things. Now. The Lakers were eliminated from the NBA cup. The Emirates NBA cup.
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Say it again one more time. I couldn't hear you. What did you say?
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The Emirates NBA cup. You feel me?
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They were eliminated by the wemby list. San Antonio spurs, fu. Lakers. There's nothing I love more than Lakers just going down into the earth. Berg their purple and gold names love it.
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Yes, they. They got they behind kick too. Stephen Stephan Castle stepped up big way. Fox crossed up Austin Reeves. A lot of questionable things happened during this game on the defensive side of the ball for the Lakers. But for one play and at least one play only, LeBron James turned back the clock yet again. Oops, I'm sorry. He stayed in the present yet again and dunked on my guy. Luke Cornet.
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The green cornet.
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Let's see it, Mr. Bethany. They can cut it to single digits. Y man, James.
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Pause that. First of all, first of all, that was a nasty dunk. Luke Cornett should have probably gotten out of the way. Second of all, that. You didn't have to do Luke Cornett like that. You could have just gone up. That just shows that LeBron has a little extra oomph. Put a little oomph in it like Jagged Edge here, juju.
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Yeah. And it goes to show you, Luke Cornett is a legend. He on LeBron radar. Like you just said, LeBron ain't got to do all this, man. But he saw Luke down there. Oh, nah, not to go. Not the goat. I'm gonna posterize the goat, you feel?
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And if you that to say it even more effusive than that. If it was just an everyday dunk, if it was just like a. A regular Monday through Friday. I'm just doing this because I'm LeBron kind of Dunkin. He wouldn't have screamed in his face right after he not only dunked on him. It was like the LION KING Roar, juju. It had a little extra energy to it. Ms. Rebecca, play the clip.
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Exactly, bruh. There it is right there, bro. Look at my boy. Look how exciting it is to finally dunk on one of your heroes, Luke Cornett. Man. Jackson halo, bro. You can get casted right now. I don't know if you trying to do some acting or whatever, bro, but you look part of a zombie from any zombie movie. But you look crazy as hell, man. The one.
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If you photoshopped LeBron out, you would think that o that the Jackson Hayes did the dunk, right? Just move Jackson Hayes up forward and you'd be like, damn, what Jackson Hayes do to Luke Cornett? Absolutely nothing. He's just there to co sign the.
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LeBron James scream to co sign that Mom's making pizza rolls. Rebecca, Look at him, man. Come on. Stall him out, LeBron. Stall him out. It's disrespectful. It's. Oh, if I'm Luke Cornett.
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All right, it's up.
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If I'm Luke Cornette, bro, don't scream at me like this.
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First of all, I feel special that I got that treatment from LeBron because really, he doesn't do that for anybody. But Luke Cornett is trying so hard to pretend like he doesn't see LeBron. He doesn't want to make eye contact because I think he's a little concerned and doesn't want to find out what happens if he does make eye contact with him. It's almost like when you champion Luke Cornett.
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Look, I didn't say anything. I'm just. Since we talking about the champion, I may as well hold it.
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But that's like when you go into it, it's like Luke Cornett is like when you go into a neighborhood that you're not, like, really quite familiar with as a white person. You just don't like, listen, you just don't make eye contact. You just. Everything is straight in front of you. Don't look at anybody on the stoop. Don't look and see what's going on. If you pass them, just give them a quick head nod like, I'm supposed to be here. But if you've never been in that neighborhood before, you just do what Luke Cornett did with the. With the LeBron James scream, bruh.
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I can't say I can't put that no better than that, bro. That's exactly it, bro. My boy's trying to. He just trying to get to the car, man. I don't know what y' all playing. I don't know what this dice means.
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Don't pat your pockets. Don't look at your phone. Now you look distracted. Phone. Phone in the pocket. Head straight, zipped up.
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We're.
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We're going forward. We're moving this way. No head movement either direction. Don't look like you're curious, and don't.
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Unlock your car until you get right up exactly like I'm talking about. Hit the door at the same time.
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No doubt. You definitely don't want to. What the is you looking at? You got a problem? You got no. No problem. Nope. No, I didn't. Wasn't looking at anything. Nope.
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You know the videos when they be like, this is how you get out of this in the car for robber. And then they. The seats go back too slow and they just end up in heaven. That's Luke Cornett. What are you guys. So I'm hopeful. Yes, I am for today. Luke GT in the sky.
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No doubt. That entire dunk scream is that Faith Evans song, Right?
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Right, bruh. Speaking of faith, Evan Songs, bruh. I'll be missing who that beat yesterday? Whoever. The Oklahoma City played the sun, the Phoenix sun, man, I will be missing you, bruh, because it was a 50 some points. It was not interesting. Most interesting time of that game when is when the Suns cut it to like 12. I was like, oh, but Oklahoma City Thunder, bro, the way they operating right now, the way she ain't got to play no fourth quarter if he really just don't want to. Are these. I mean, I know I came on here last week and said, big whoop. Do it in the playoffs. Whoop. Do they winning all these games? What Lost one game. Whoop. They do is what I said last week. But, man, it's looking quite impressive, sis. What you think about these boys?
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What will they ever lose again? That's kind of the question That I have. And they're doing it with ease. The thing that makes it so hard to bet on Oklahoma City or against them is they could legitimately win by this amount against almost anyone, just if they decide. And they, they were in a close one, a little squeak win against the Phoenix Suns a few weeks ago and they were 15 point favorites again. 15 and a half point favorites again. And I was like, well you can't call it if they play with their food, which they can do and they sometimes do and they're within their right to do as they only have one loss. All that matters is they're getting the dub and they've already proved it. But if they decide, no, no, we're going to make a statement. We're going to make you an example of what we can do when we decide to take over. Then you're hopeless. Do you remember juju? I was thinking about how far the Oklahoma City Thunder have come. Okay, December 21st, so 10 days from now, huh? But in 2021. Yeah, December. No, actually December 2nd. Excuse me, December 2nd, 2021. The Thunder had the largest loss in NBA history. Seven. They lost by 73 points to the Memphis Grizzlies. Grizzlies were on the come up. OKC looked lost. Shea wasn't close to the superpower. He was now. And to that I say, wow, look how fast stuff has changed.
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So now it made sense. Bravo. Wondering bro, why do the Thunder kick the Grizzlies ass so hard Every time they play them it feel like they only like bro, they beat him by 60, 50 in the playoffs last year. And John Moran talking about something, man, if I would have been, I was out there, boy, don't get joke from the past.
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So they play the Clippers, Wolves, Grizzlies, I don't know when. It doesn't really matter actually who they play where. I just say that's, that's an L for that team. That's now. I mean I'm like waiting for them to maybe play the Nuggets.
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Yeah, I know who they don't want to play no more. It's the boys who they scared of. For real your guys? Exactly. Come on now, put some respect on their name. They could have been. They could have beat them twice.
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They could have forget.
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But hey, not neither here nor there. Moving on. I am sick and tired in this south ass NBA. The south fast, 20, 25, whatever you want to call it. That also we get to take this extra pro step, pro hop, Duke, gather step, whatever you want to call it. Out of my damn life, bro. Well, let's see this. Let's see my boy Grayson Allen, this thug. Let's see what he was up to during this play. You have Anthony Edwards.
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You're almost in the game.
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Look at that. Come on, man.
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Hold on. I'm gonna need to see it again.
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21 for Edwards. No, man. Come on, bro. I don't give a damn. And my problem is ain't nobody even better. Eye the. The. The Timberwolves ain't even be like, oh, to travel. They just let this stuff go down, bro. What the hell has happened to America, bro? And liberty.
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And liberty, as soon as you complete that last step on the stitch on the step back.
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Yeah.
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There's no more movement. That's it. We've already done an illegal move. That's an illegal move that we've decided collectively is nasty. So we want to see it. So I'm seeing. I'm seeing chit chat right on Iowa last night. Step back, side step.
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Oh, yeah.
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Travel. And it's like. That's nasty. Okay, we'll let it slide. That's now a new rule we allow. You cannot now then take another step for a floater. That's it. Like, that's it. Your feet need to be in glue. Once you like. Once you do the step back, you're in glue.
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We should go. I think we should tell Ms. Rebecca. Pack up the Winnebago. Let's hit the winter meetings, bro. And stand outside, brother. That's a travel. No more pro stuff. Let's pick it this.
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We should get the big, like, white anti iPads. You know, the ones that they take to, like, the Capitol and they take photos on, and we should just show. Show a video of illegal travels that we think need to be banned from the NBA. And then we should have a clipboard. You can have the iPad. I'll have the clipboard. And we'll take signatures to send in to Adam Silver. We vote. We've all collectively decided you guys need to vote on this.
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And while we're doing that, Ms. Rebecca and Dylan can throw paint on their wolves and their. And their fleeces. The quarter zips. Take that. You feel me? Come on, man. But I. Moving on. Now I gotta go back. Right, right, right, right. I was. I was a little bit. I was beside myself. But moving on. I gotta go back to the past, man. Josh giddy ankle breaker. I know it's from the past, and I wanted to bring it back up again today. Ms. Rebecca, please roll this beautiful bean footage from the past. Where were you? You know? Okay, now, I brought this up just to say this. That moment right there, did that break when the Bulls season was broken? Bro, the Bulls had only lost two games at that point. They were like 9 and 2 or something. They went. They are now 3 and 12 since that moment happened.
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Wow.
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Come on, bro. I want to ask my sister, did DeAndre Hunter break the Bulls?
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I think the Bulls, to be honest, were broken. We just didn't know for sure that they were broken. How do we know that? Because every year there are 500 team. That's just what they are. You can kind of just count on it. 40 wins, 42 wins, 39 wins. Doesn't matter if they get the majority in the beginning of the season like they did this year or the majority in the end of the season like they did last year. We already know what time it is. Does the Josh Giddy injury, does it add some hilarity to their misfortune? Yes. Do I like to see my brothers and sisters look as uncoordinated as he did when he broke his own damn ankles playing defense? No. It hurts me for. For us and like to remain at least, I don't know, respectable in terms of like playing defense against people like DeAndre Hunter is not even that good, to be honest.
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Okay, See, I know he's going to cross the line, damn it. Five yards.
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If it was Kyrie or KD or an elite scorer with a bag as deep as Mary Poppins, then you could say, okay, Josh Giddy, we're going to let this one slide. We'll let it slide further than you just did on the court right there. Yeah, but DeAndre Hunter, come on, man. He needs. He needs Jiffy Oil in his hips and knees in order for him to get busy. I think he gets literally tune ups the day of games.
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Tune ups the Jiffy Oil Tuna, bruh. How does the Besmircher. I bought this up for Josh Gideon, the boys, we found a way. Hold your horses. DeAndre Hunter. We gonna find a way to besmirch you. Look at him sipping the damn tea. That's the biggest cup of tea.
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I like DeAndre Hunter just fine. Never mind the fact that a lot of people were hyping him out of Virginia and he hasn't really panned out. And he is only a defensive guy. But that will remain on DeAndre Hunter's highlight tape is the moment that he broke the Bulls.
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Moving on. To a segment we like to call. Boy Stop, Man. Miss Rebecca, what do you have for us this week?
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So what I got for you guys today is a little. It's a tradition I found. It's a small school, Taylor University. And this is what they do. The entire school dresses up in costumes, and they stay dead silent. Dead silent until the 10th point is scored. And then I'm gonna let you see what happens, and then I'll come back for more.
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Here we go.
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That's hard direction for Taylor. Into the hands of Gould. Back underneath Cole. Oh, my God.
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Oh, my good.
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This is. Bruh. I love this. This looks amazing.
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Wait, so pause it. So they. They all are in colors and blocks, and they all rush to the court, like, almost like a spilling of liquid out onto the floor where you see all these different rainbows converge. I'm kind of shook if.
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And then at the end, they all sing Silent Night together. It's some trajectory. And they build in a break for this to happen, for them to flood, because that. That team got swallowed up. Both those teams got swallowed up in that. You saw that they did.
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That's an injury risk. I say that right now.
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After this is over, I just want us to clip Trista explaining what's happening. She said the colors are mixing in with the centrifugal force. Like, bro, I put that in my veins directly. But, yeah, I love. I love this tradition, bro. As long as everybody be safe. Because it's a doozy, that first step sometimes, and you trip on that first step, you got a thousand shoe prints up your ass. So be careful.
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They. What they need, actually, is like a trap door right underneath. Right underneath the. The rim on both sides. And then they go down, and then everybody else comes out. They don't kill them. There's. That's a legit, what, 5,000 people all rushing the court. Players.
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The problem with that trapdoor theory is if you did that, you know, you're gonna lose a couple guys from the band, you know, like the guy with the tube.
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Kill the nerds. You know what I mean? Like you. It's the law of attrition, Mr. Becca. You're gonna lose a couple of nerds every year in the Silent Night. You build it in. You build the band a little more girthy and then. And it's like Darwinism, you know, like, only the strong survive.
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There's a weight requirement for the band. I like that. I like that a lot.
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Exactly. The. It's the. The other team, though, That's. That's the problem. That's the potential problem, because hopefully everybody on the other team having a great week, you know, just Figured out your failed 2. 2 classes, and it's your last game because it's before Christmas, and you swing on this little. What? Who is this Joseph in the manger right here? Joseph might get clanked up, so who knows?
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Anyway, boy stay. So is it's boy go, Taylor boy.
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Go, Taylor boy go. As long as you can keep your balance.
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Yep.
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If you trip, boy stop.
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Boy run. If you. If you're tripping, boy run.
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Thank you all again, man, for tuning in to the alley. Oh, another great episode. Thank you as always to Ms. Rebecca Donahue. If you're nasty, I think it's Becky.
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If you nasty.
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Oh, is it Becky if you're nasty? Or is it Becca if you're nasty?
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There's some Becky in there.
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But there's never Becca, never Becca, never Becca. Only Becky. You dig? I like it.
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Or Rebecca. Don't give up with the Rebecca. We like it. We like it. Confuses people. Confuses people because Becky is a very white woman's name. You know, it's like a Karen. It's not good.
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Plaid's got a couple songs shouting those out the Becky's, but that's neither here nor there.
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So does Beyonce. Becky was a good. The good hair. It's not good.
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It's not good.
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Right?
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Right. Somebody out there please make a positive Becky song. Matter of fact, let's get on it. We're gonna make a positive Becky song for the year 2026 around here. And also thank you to our brother, the distinguished Dylan. You got to know it, man. And thank you guys once again for tuning in without y'. All. Who the hell is we? You feel me? Same bad time.
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We'll be back. Next time you see us, we'll be on our way. Will be the day before we leave for Miami, so we'll be getting our. I'll be putting on some self tanner to try to get. Try to get ready. Juju won't, but we'll be excited. Where? Where is it? Juju? When is it?
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Same bat time, same bat channel catches.
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You dig me?
Episode: Alley Oop 144: LeBron’s MONSTER Dunk Goes Viral: What His Emotion Reveals | OKC Unstoppable? | Travel Calls Disappear & Bulls’ No-Return Moment
Date: December 12, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Juju, Trista (with Ms. Rebecca producing)
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
This lively episode focuses on LeBron James' viral dunk and the passion he displayed afterward, followed by deep dives into the red-hot Oklahoma City Thunder, the vanishing travel calls in the NBA, and the "no-return" moment for the Chicago Bulls. The crew also weighs in with their trademark irreverent humor on fan traditions, team psychology, and NBA rule gripes.
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The episode delivers energetic, irreverent, often comedic takes on NBA highlights and oddities. There’s heavy use of slang, analogies, and in-jokes, making the basketball discussion accessible and entertaining even for casual fans.
Episode Alley Oop 144 blends sharp sports analysis with vivid, entertaining banter. The hosts dissect LeBron's viral dunk (and what it says about his mindset), marvel at the Thunder's turnaround, rail against NBA officiating trends, and dig into some lower-profile but hilarious basketball moments and traditions.
For fans of sports and big personalities, this is a high-energy, laugh-packed episode that captures why The Dan Le Batard Show is a unique voice in sports media.