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A
I want to know who 14 is on the New York Knicks. Is that Josh Hart? No, May. Oh, Anthony Mason.
B
You got to know, man. Yes, sir. Rest in peace to the Lord, man.
A
I didn't know Anthony Mason was dead.
B
Yes, sir, man. Rest in peace to my boy. People don't know this right here. And Ms. Rebecca ain't even catch this. Out of nowhere. We don't talk. Both of us pulled up in our New York Knick merch today. You feel me?
C
Come on.
B
Come on. I don't know. What is it? It's the reason for the season. I'm a Celtics fan and a Timberwolves fan, but what's the reason for your shirt today?
A
You want to know the truth?
B
Yeah, I slept in it. There we go. See that?
A
I've been going and going so much. Juju. I put. I did my hair, I did my makeup, I brushed my teeth, and I said, you know what?
B
I'm.
A
I kind of like the shirt. It kind of fits.
B
I was about to put on the jersey, and I couldn't find the scully for the that one, but this one was on top. So I was like, go, New York. Go, New York, go.
A
How do you. I know this is like such a non sequitur. Do you put the beanies, the skull caps with the jersey, like, in the closet? Like, do they go together or do you have like a hat area and a Jersey area?
B
Yeah, I got a hat area in the kitchen, and then the Jersey area.
A
Is in the back kitchen.
B
It sound crazy. Yes, it does. But that's dims the facts and the breaks. You'll be surprised to know right now I'm not too far away from the kitchen right now as we speak, ma'. Am. So if kitchen do a lot of.
A
Work, if you got right, like, literally, if we went an inch off camera, you. It would be the sink and the dishwasher right there, not the sink.
B
And this was. You want to see it here behind the scenes look of the alley oop of what the kids living room actually look like. Bam. Whole kitchen right there, man.
A
Boom.
B
Damn.
A
I like these sound drops. I like these sound drops. Me and juju were on Levitards all week. Well, Wednesday through Friday, and I. I didn't realize that they had a button for unintentional racism. I feel like that button could probably get pushed to me sometimes when I'm like. Or. Or. Or, like, where I'm like, this is the whitest avocado. This is how it is.
B
Yeah. You more racist to white folks. People for sure.
A
No, that Was a thousand percent, thousand percent, hands down.
B
But speaking of black and whites together, man, and we since we here, the New York Knickerbockers, man, Jalen Brunson put up 47 big ones over the Miami Heat. And my boy Cat Carl Anthony Towns put up two big ones against that same heat, bruh. What's going on in New York right now? Great win over the Heat. We. But still two points from Cat. What we doing?
A
When you say speaking of black and whites together, I thought she was, See.
B
I thought she was going to skip that because I kind of got caught on the ledge right there. And I was like, my sister will forgive that. She's going to push past that because what was I talking about?
A
I was like, was he talking about the fact that Jalen Brunson's mom and dad are so obviously black and white? And then I was like, I think Kyle Anthony Towns is also mixed. Are we just like, is it? I think Joe. And I was like doing some math in my head, some genetic math. Is Josh Hart also white and black? I was like, maybe it's the mixed brothers, the light skinned.
B
This is what your friends do to you ladies.
A
I know it'd be the one twirly.
B
Mistake and just twisted. Ring it out. But yes, if I had my flags. Yeah, I took my flags with me to Miami. I got my flags here, 15 yards on me. What the hell was that? Black and white. Speaking of black and white, Jalen Brunson had 47.
A
I was like, maybe it means this T shirt is black and white. I don't know Jalen Brunson. I, I honestly, I don't want to poo poo or dismiss the Knicks talk because we did come correct as a unit, you dig? But I, I placed a bet today. Juju.
B
Oh, let me in, let me in.
A
Boston Celtics to win the East.
B
And we are back, ladies and gentlemen. Come on, man. That's T, that's clock. That one. Yeah. You got to know. Yo, tell them why, sis.
A
Listen, top, top two defense in terms of points allowed in the league right now. Top five offense with absolutely nobody. With nobody. With Namia's Keita and go Ducks. Peyton Pritchard and Jalen. Jalen Brown doing his best turkey. AI like talking about how his greatness is on his hairspray and how he's getting his championship greatness on people. That's the kind of trolling we need from Jalen Brown. No, Tatum. Tatum could be back in March. They say Derrick White balling out of his goddamn bald head. My Right. This is a team that has all of the tools. They've already done it. And they continue to separate themselves. They're on a win streak. They're sitting pretty much right in the mix in the East. Cavs stink. I'm dead. The Cavs are dead to me. They're ready to break up juju. They stink. They're butt.
B
I'm breaking that team up asap. I'm sending Jared Allen. I mean, my bad. I'm sending Jared Allen the hell up out of town asap. Him and that Afro. Come on, head ass.
A
So you tell me it could be the Knicks and the Celtic again in the playoffs and you don't think the Celtics are going to have some revenge for that ass? Yeah, Come on now.
B
Look. And that was. That was very. Not only they beat the Celtics, but how they beat the Celtics last. Bruh. It was so humiliating. Celtics up 23 games in a row. Come on. Come here, boy. Every time after the game took the heart from them boys.
A
They gave him the raiden. You remember Raiden?
B
The Scorpion.
A
Scorpion.
B
Get over here.
A
Come over here. Yeah.
B
Hey, come on, man. At the end of the game. And bruh, I don't hate that take, man. Stay tuned for my sister. You might want to lock that bet in Wit says or you might not.
A
We can't take you to one depending on where you get your bets.
B
So you feel me? But. Yeah, bro, but. Back to the next Branson 47, Cat, two points. Does that matter or is it just. Hey, man, some nights I'm gonna have 47 brunch, you're gonna have two points. I damned.
A
I don't think there'll ever be a world where Cat has 47 and Brunson has two. Not in the world of Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson wants that ball. They're moving the offense around quite a bit. It's. It's in motion style that we haven't seen in the Tom Thibodau era. But Jalen Brunson still wants that Rocky rock, okay? He's not letting that thing go. I like Cat on this team. I really do. He doesn't. The question that I have, juju, is did they get the win or not?
B
They did. They got the dub. It's like getting in the car crash, almost getting a car crash on the highway. Did you die though? Like you, right? So, yeah, they got the dub.
A
They got the dub. That's. I want to see. Obviously more balanced scoring. But the truth of the matter is, as long as you're Getting a win. There's gonna. We're gonna have nights clunker days from Karl Anthony Towns. That's just what he's known for.
B
I like that. I like where your head's at, sis. Keep doing that. All right. That's why you the top analyst in. In the sporting world right now. I'm talking about trending the whole way up the whole way. You feel me? But speaking of scoring, I'm not sure if this is balanced or not, but the Bulls beat the Hawks 152 to 150. No overtime, bruh. Let me repeat that, ladies and gentlemen. The Bulls beat the house 150. 150 points to 152 points in no overtimes, just straight four quarters. Trey Young had 35, Jalen Johnson had 36. Matasa buzz from the Bulls, 28 punch. But what. What's going on is this. Is defense going to be played between these teams? Should we shoot Trey out? I like that. I like the Hawks a little bit better. Say it too loud in Atlanta, but at the same time, sis.
A
What you thought the BER is coming.
C
Oh.
B
Now put your jackets on, ladies and gentlemen. Get your umbrellas. I like that. Grab your umbrellas, ladies and gentlemen. It's about to get real lightning.
A
I've been waiting for Trey Young to get healthy, bless his heart. I've been waiting for this Hawks team that was on a heater. One of the better defenses in the league. Jalen Johnson's a stud and a star on Yeka Akongu. I've been waiting. Let me see what they talking about when Trey gets back. And you know what they're talking about again? Juju. When Trey Young is back. Them. Ls them. Ls the defensive woes. It's impressive juju how badly. How. No. How impactful Trae Young is when he's on the basketball court to have 30 plus points still give up 152. And it because of you, sir. It's just you. Trey's gotta go right now. I don't know what his trade value is. I don't know if a team in the NBA wants him.
B
Oh, I don't go that far because I'm pretty sure Sacramento got a jersey hot off the press right now for his ass.
A
You know, that's a fair point. And that's just because they need to sell tickets and they need to find a certified franchise bucket getter. And they don't have one.
B
Nah.
A
But like, if you're trying to win for real, you don't Want Trey Young. For real?
B
Nah, not for real. Especially they had a chance to win the game. At the buzzer, they had a last second shot from Trey Young. And guess what my boy trying to do? Draw the damn pile.
A
Yeah, man, that's what he always does. How many of these moments juju have we seen where it comes down at the last moment to Trey needing the ball and needing to make a Superman play? Get this. Sorry.
B
The door right. The bus Mercher.
A
Play that again. There it is.
B
Oh, I love that. That's so fire. But speaking of them Kings, man, the Kings, Russell Westbrook pulled out the cape, man. Three pointer tray ball, corner pocket, man, corner pocket to force the overtime. And then once they got into the overtime, Dennis with the bucket to seal the game. Yeah, you ain't know I was German, you feel me? Dennis.
A
Duncan, do you know?
B
Come on, I'm from Germany. For real.
A
Give me. Give me the dunkishin.
B
You feel me? Was handing player.
A
You got something to play for us? Let's play it.
B
Yeah, Ms. Rebecca, she like. Yeah, yeah. I'm tired of this German. My boy Dennis cruder, man. Come on, man. With the game on the line, who else do you go to?
A
Oh, frau line.
B
You feel me? Come on. That's the. That's the Euro cup league MVP right there, man. The Euro MVP didn't screw the screw. I think he the Euro basket mvp. But yeah, bro, what you think? I mean, of course the Kings need a lot of help, man. He wins is few and far between. But I like seeing my boy Russ get after the game be able to talk his talk, man. Them boys say, man, you. You got one of the best rebounding guards ever. He said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The best. I'm him. Stop playing with me. Next question. What you think, sis?
A
Yeah, Russ is the most unfairly criticized guard in the NBA right now. That's active.
B
Yeah.
A
And he just happens to be in a situation where like nobody for real wanted him and he couldn't go to the places he really wanted to go. And he was on a championship contender with Denver and they. They kind of did him dirty and said, we know you got a player option, but like we don't really want you to pick up your player option. Which to me, I don't care. I'll make it awkward. I'm coming back to Denver and playing with yogesh. Like, I don't. It's either make things awkward and play for Denver and probably get traded somewhere or end up in Sacramento.
B
Right.
A
I think I'm going to Take my chances with Denver. No shade to sack, but so he ends up on this team and he's got to be this leader. And I'm sure it's going to end up working out okay for a guy like Devin Carter, who we know has no hairline and probably Keon Ellis. Absolutely not. Or Keon Ellis, who they're hiding in the back of the bench. It's just a tough time for Kings fans. You had Tyrese Halberton, you had Dear Fox, and now you have neither. And now you got. You got to try to finesse Zach Levine over to the Milwaukee Bucks to try to get out from under that cap space issue. So I love some Russ. It's a tough. It's been a tough few years for Russ.
B
It has. But I'm still one of the Rush biggest fans. I love how he just love you feel me like, I love how passionate that's what we missing in the game. Somebody who to give a damn aspect. And my boy ain't never low on that. And especially when he was going through his time. Whenever was Skip Bailey were calling on Westbrook and then my kids going through this at school, bro. Please calm down, folks. Still coming at him. So he started defending himself. You feel like. I like how Russell Westbrook go about it and I love how he loved Nipsey Hussle as well.
A
And his wife. Russell Westbrook's wife. We gotta really make her the goat because Nina, she's in. Nina's in the group chat letting people know. Like Ms. Rebecca in the DLS chat like, yo, you ain't about to talk about my mans and them like that. Come on. She's put it on her Instagram. She's put it on the YouTube, the Twitter, whatever, and she's. That's a ride or die. That's somebody that you want. Having you in their corner.
B
Yeah.
A
No having them in your corner. So you were about to let that slide.
B
You feel me? I saw it. I was finna hesitate. I was. I was there. I was like, nah, I'm gonna shoot my sister some money.
A
That was a sinking shipping moment.
B
It's all real. Levitar listeners know what's going on. But we had some other sports flying this weekend in the W. Not the W. I'm so used to the W being the league. I. I mean the M. The mnba where what's my boy name? Dylan Brooks versus the warriors, bro. Now, we saw a couple of days ago Dylan Brooks, contestant Steph Curry, three point shot. Go by him. Still giving them a little tap in the stomach, like, come on, you can't. That's Steph, bro. If I'm on the. If I'm on the end of the bench and I see you play with stuff like that, you ain't going to have the same night you thought you were f to have. You feel me? But lo and behold, they got another opportunity to go to Golden State and play them warriors for a second time. And those spots was flying just as high, bro. Did you see that game? You caught that one?
D
Yeah.
A
I mean, the thing is, Dylan Brooks really is the villain. Everybody thinks that Draymond Green is Draymond Green. If he did the type of things that Dylan Brooks did on the basketball court, he might be forced to retire. Like, Adam Silver might take him into his office and say, hey, that's. That's enough. Dylan Brooks is a maniac. The way that he punched Steph right in the chest for no damn reason. Come on, son. Come on.
B
Right. And getting into it, I think, well, Jimmy Butler scored a point and then threw the ball right at Dylan Bruce, like, threw it down in his chest. Referee was like, I ain't see nothing. You saw something like, technical foul.
A
I kind of like this Phoenix team.
B
Yeah. Okay. Colin Gillespie, I see you. Keep going.
A
Yeah. I think when you have a lot. A team with a lot of stars, juju, there's just real ones will know sometimes these. These old heads that have been around the league for a minute.
B
Oh, no.
A
They feel like everything's theirs. They feel like they. They take up a lot of airspace. Their egos are outsized, you know what I'm saying? And like, the new kids on the block don't get an opportunity to show what they're about. And so that's Kevin Durant. That's. That's our man, Bradley Beal. They feel like they've got a specific way they want to do things. And really, the team's much better when it's a bunch of, like, role players scrapping, trying to be. Make their way in the league. Like a Colin Gillespie.
B
Like, exactly.
A
Even a Grayson Allen. Like, these. These exciting whites don't happen to just only live in Charlotte, juju. I like how they've assembled their roster. Mark Williams has been okay. Like, I kind of just feel like they have a little edge to them. And that's without Jaylen Green.
B
Yeah, they got a little something. Something going on. Yeah, for sure, for sure. It's. It's. It's that edge that they got right now. I feel like if they would have had that when they went to the chip that would have prepared them costum bus because they was just the fun team. Mikhail Bridges, Chris Paul dominating like it was all fun and games versus the discipline that come with somebody that's not finna dive in the third row after you if you playing like Dylan Brooks. But you mentioned the older guys and how things are going and it made me think of one team, bro, right now that's just on the struggle bus. Breaking news out of the NBA over the weekend. Zubots out for about what six weeks or so they say at least minimum, even more longer probably them LA Clippers, bro. I don't know how it could get worse for these Clippers. All I' ma say is at this point I just want them to free James Harden. Free, free, free the beard bro, at this point because he is still a phenomenal basketball player and he is showing you that every other night I think that he. If you take him somewhere like put him.
A
Orlando.
B
Orlando, you feel me? I was thinking Houston. But yeah, a team like Orlando, who would, who could get there? Especially that that weak ass east get to that Eastern Conference finals, bro. We don't need you to have every single 30 point game every night that we got Paolo for that. We got Franz Wagner for that. We got KD for that. You feel me? We got a Thompson twin for that. We got Shangun for that. But if you don't mind giving us 12 assists in that door, we could be championship or bus in some, some cases. What you think about them boys?
A
The Clippers have seven wins. We're 28 games in the. That's crazy.
B
God damn.
A
They've won three games on the road all year, bro.
B
It's sad man.
A
The only team they're. They, they literally are worse juju than teams that are intentionally tanking. The Utah Jazz have 30 more wins than them. Well, 10 technically if you talk about percentage.
B
But like I'm not holding you accountable for that. I knew, I knew it couldn't have been right. When you said 30 in my head I said bush, stop.
A
They actually, actually it is actually. I did the math right correct correctly the first time. The Jazz have a 37 back.
B
I don't believe you. I don't. I need to crunch.
A
The Jazz have a 37 win percent 37 win percentage. The Clippers have a 25 win percentage. Actually 12.
B
And bro, these folks pushed the Nuggets to seven games last year. They needed a buzzer beater from the Aaron Gordon dunk to beat these folks.
A
Sometimes, sometimes you sometimes like don't change the Recipe. Yeah, maybe. Maybe you just need to do the recipe a couple of times and. And you saw that you, like, you pretty much had it. Why are we changing all these Damn. Sorry. Boop. All these ingredients, adding in Brooke Lopez, adding in, like, I thought we were all in agreement that John Collins was kind of buns.
B
Hold on. When was that meeting? I didn't attend that meeting.
A
Oh, you didn't attend that one.
B
They didn't invite me to that one.
A
Like John's. John Collins is very talented.
B
Yeah.
A
He can do a bunch of things. He just never produced winning basketball outside of that one year. They beat the Philadelphia 76ers, which we know is more about Ben Simmons than about the Atlanta Hawks. So, like, this is a guy who was in trade rumors longer than Miles Turner was in trade rumors. It was like, oh, yeah, it's January again. John Collins is on the trade block for the eighth consecutive year. And, like, the Jazz couldn't use him. The Clippers, like, he's okay. He just doesn't produce wins. So why did you go out and do all that stuff to get those guys that clearly are not helping your team? Listen, you know, I kind of ride for Chris Paul, and I'm a little bit of a Chris Paul apologist, but Chris Paul has done 100x more in his career than Bradley Beal has ever done. So don't come up in your Bradley Beal acting like you should be starting like you're Carmelo Anthony on the Oklahoma City Thunder. Boy, stop. Get the hell out of here. Break your foot. Go home, retire. They just made so many bad moves when they had the recipe right there that the nuggets on the ropes right there.
B
You could lead a horse to water, man, but you can't make them plant trees, I guess. And now brings us to the illustrious segment that we like to call Boy, Stop.
C
All right, this first one, I want to do this little fella here, this little fella, this big fella. Just listen to him and. And how he eats and tell me, is it wrong to have certain foods in public places?
D
I guess bear with it, because every morning and, like, I'll shoot around, I bring in. It's because I have for breakfast, I have a pound of ground beef and six eggs. So it's all, like, mixed together, but, like, when you open it, eggs don't smell that great. It's been sitting in, like, a heater for, like, an hour waiting on them. So he waits till we get in a tiny room watching film. And, like, it's not like it's Literally as soon as everyone gets in there door gets closed right then he opens it. And you just have to smell the meat and eggs for a whole like.
A
This is every morning.
D
Every morning. And they all look right at that corner. Tear gas, bro.
A
No, no, no.
C
Take a side or you both like. No. What's the smelliest food you've ever eaten in front of other people?
A
Fish. Can't heat up fish in a public place. Everybody knows that. But everybody has to go through it to see why it is terrorism. If somebody brings something nasty to work, I'm poisoning them.
B
Allegedly, ladies and gentlemen.
A
Allegedly. Like poisoning. With all my love and negative comments.
C
Once I. I was on a diet that I started eating boiled eggs in a movie theater. Never again.
A
Disgusting. I bet you boiled egg farts.
B
You lucky I got my flag again. Boy, they is in the movie theater. Ms. Rebecca, what's going on?
C
I really felt like someone Stop.
B
There we go. Dylan did that one.
A
That was good.
B
I like that I call police on you, sis. But yeah, I think Stephen Adams though I think it could be a little bit remedy if he would just bring food for everybody. No, because it don't stink as much as you if you eating it too. Like bring me some eggs, bro. And some of that ground beef, bro.
A
How about just hot sauce? Hot sauce will mask everything.
B
But yeah, man. Another good fun episode of the Alley oop. As usual, sis. Any last words on the way out here?
A
Chat shame Mr. Becca for all these old ass. I don't even know if she kept it in the show, but she gave us a video if you didn't see it because she deleted it. It was 48 weeks old. I think we need to source her some good stuff that her boy stops. And in the meantime, thank you all for listening watching.
B
Yeah, that's. That's a good idea. If you're on Instagram and you see a funny video, send it. Send it to our sister, Ms. Rebecca. Also head over to DLS Hoops on YouTube as well as our URL. You feel me@alleyoopshow.com. what is Trista oops dispersing me for right now? What are we doing?
A
You could. I just never heard anybody call it a URL. That was our age or not ML.
B
In the damn notes. And so I trying to respect our elders, Mr. Rebecca and read what she said. Give us Mercer. Don't look. Tune in next time to see if we still got a show because I'm about to go talk to Trista asap. We about to get some straightening on this these ad reads, but, yeah, man. Thank y' all for tuning in. Without y', all, who the hell are we? Catch us again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. You dig us, plugin?
Podcast: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and company (including Trista and Juju)
Date: December 23, 2025
Setting: Live from the Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
This “Alley Oop” episode is a lively, freewheeling roundtable featuring Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Trista, and Juju, offering their takes on NBA highlights—most notably Dennis Schröder’s buzzer-beater, Jalen Brunson’s explosion against the Heat, and heated discussion about stars like Trae Young, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden. The hosts mix basketball analysis with personal banter, wardrobe talk, and stories that highlight both the game’s serious and silly sides.
Knicks Fandom & Apparel Banter
Jalen Brunson’s 47-Point Game
Celtics Predictions
Cavs Hot Take
Absurd Scores in the NBA
Trae Young Critique
Schröder’s Game-Winner & Russ’s Heroics
Sacramento Kings’ Woes
Clippers’ Struggles Intensify
Dysfunction by Design
Fast-paced and opinionated, this episode blends sharp basketball analysis with unfiltered humor, pop culture nods, and personal stories. The crew’s chemistry makes it feel like you’re eavesdropping on friends at a sports bar, making it accessible to both hardcore basketball fans and casual listeners. Hot takes fly, but there’s also depth—especially around topics like team-building, player value, and the personal side of NBA stardom.
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