Alley Oop 154: The Wolves Are Hunting Bulls + Is Giannis Over the Bucks?

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz — "Alley Oop 154: The Wolves Are Hunting Bulls + Is Giannis Over the Bucks?"
Hosts: Juju Gotti (A), Trista Crick (B), additional speaker (C)
Date: January 28, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This episode of Alley Oop delivers a fast-paced, irreverent take on the latest NBA rumors and sports oddities. Juju Gotti and Trista Crick riff on Giannis Antetokounmpo's commitment to Milwaukee, the impact of the NBA trade deadline (with a focus on the Timberwolves and Bulls), and wild viral moments from the sports world. Throughout, the chemistry between Juju and Trista keeps things lively, with comedic analogies, playful ribbing, and memorable one-liners.

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1. Jalen Brown for MVP: Setting the Energy

• Juju opens with a shout for Jalen Brown as MVP, using his now-trademark enthusiastic tone.
  • “MVP Jalen Brown right now. Until it’s backwards.” (00:36, Juju)
• Trista notices Juju’s energy and trophy, poking fun at his "MVP campaign."

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2. The Giannis Antetokounmpo "Self-Diagnosis" Saga

• Concerns About Giannis:
  • Giannis’ recent injury and comments spark speculation:
    • "That feel about like, four, six weeks right there. Yep. That’s what the doctor gonna tell me." (01:02, Juju)
• Motivation Issues?
  • Trista compares Giannis’ behavior to someone making excuses to avoid work:
    • “It’s giving... I’m hurt. I don’t want to play for this team. I’m gonna find every excuse.” (01:10, Trista)
    • Ends with a self-deprecating COVID analogy: “To this employer, I’ve had Covid 15 times.” (01:37, Trista)
• Giannis as the “Good Husband”:
  • Using a relationship metaphor, Trista highlights Giannis’ discomfort in Milwaukee:
    • “I’m a loyal man. I pay all the bills... But I’m not happy while he’s doing it.” (02:28, Trista)
  • Juju sums up the vibe: "We could tell, bro, you want to leave." (02:11, Juju)

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3. Return of the (Former) Players: NCAA Eligibility and the NBA

• Going Back to College?
  • Juju jokes that with recent eligibility loopholes, anyone (including "former army members, former Mortal Kombat characters") could return to college sports, specifically Tyrese Maxey at age 38:
    • “It opens up a slippery ass slope for Tyrese Maxi at his last retiring age at 38." (04:05, Juju)
  • Trista: "Yeah, it's effing wild juju." (04:42)
• Clarifying Rules:
  • Only G League and non-NBA players can return, not those who've played actual NBA games.
    • “I think you can’t have played right now in a real NBA game.” (05:24, Trista)
    • “G League, you’re clear. ... The rules change every day.” (05:34, Trista, 05:46)

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4. NBA Trade Deadline Speculation & Timberwolves Pursuing Bulls Guards

• Chicago Bulls Guards as Trade Targets
  • Trista reports the Timberwolves are eyeing Bull guards Ayo Dosunmu, Coby White, and Tre Jones.
    • “I’m hearing that some Chicago Bulls guards are on the move. ... are all targets for the Minnesota Timberwolves.” (06:14, Trista)
  • Light banter about the word “targets” (06:40)
• Mike Conley, Age & Decline
  • Trista on Conley: “When Mike Conley goes to the ground ... dust comes out of his skin.” (06:43)
  • “He’s shooting the lowest percentage of any player in the NBA right now at 34% from the field.” (07:01, Trista)
  • Juju feels for Conley but agrees: “Let’s ease up on the veteran...it just feels icky, man.” (07:07)
• Tough Love
  • Trista, bluntly: “We love you, Mike. You're incredible. ... You're just washed. That's just what the reality is.” (07:26)
• Cultural Sidebar
  • Discussion on African communities in Portland and name pronunciation (08:13-08:47)
• Houston Rockets Trade Needs
  • Juju suggests Houston should try acquiring Dejounte Murray for a playoff push.
    • “If they get somebody like a forgotten Dejounte Murray... Come be hurt over here.” (08:47-09:30)
  • Trista floats Jrue Holiday as a perfect fit:
    • “He is a certified sniper, two-way player, veteran that you pick up when you’re a piece away. ... Jrue Holiday, you already know.” (09:53-10:13)
  • Juju cosigns: "Bro will bring one of these [championships] to your front doorstep expeditiously." (10:08)
  • Trista details Jrue’s injury/rest as a pseudo positive for tread on the tires (10:13-10:58)

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5. Segment: “Boy, Stop!” – Wild & Viral Sports Moments

• “Coach with a Head Gash”
  • Juju and Trista riff on a viral image of a coach with a huge head wound, swapping jokes about the cause:
    • “What in the... Saber tooth tiger... What in the Carl Winslow, who do you owe money to?” (10:58, Juju)
    • “Snowshoe... claws that you put into the snow to walk.” (11:40, Trista)
  • “That’s a scalping. That is like a scalping.” (13:13, C)
• NBA Slow-Mo "Midriff" Moment
  • Playful breakdown of a viral slow-motion video of Musa Diabate:
    • “It’s the sheer joy wipe across my boy’s face...what is a happier situation than ever?” (14:11, Juju)
    • “Jersey up so high we could see his stomach. ...the most zesty moment I’ve ever seen in the NBA.” (15:32, Trista)
    • “He said that boy looks like a certified top.” (15:58, (presumably C))
• Cricket Player Drinks Random Cup
  • Mock horror at a cricket player drinking a tossed beverage from the crowd:
    • “My boy need to go straight to the doctor right now. Because you got Covid 79. We're drinking a random cup.” (16:31, Juju)
    • “JuJu won’t even eat off of clean, dishwashed forks and knives from the restaurant, let alone some random man who gave you a cup of beer that he probably drank some from.” (17:42, Trista)

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6. Final “Boy, Stop!” – Warriors Rookie Tries to Join OGs’ Conversation

• Brandon Podziemski (Pods) and Warriors Hierarchy
  • Juju and Trista clown on rookie Podziemski trying to join a serious Warriors locker room conversation:
    • “Every homeboy I had thought he thought that was his homeboy too... Bro, you do not know my homeboy, bro. Back up.” (18:38, Juju)
    • Trista: “Why is this man who we chose over Klay Thompson...we decided to go with a man that we call Pods?” (19:13)
    • Juju: “He wants some dap. I’m not dapping you off, bro. You are not my homeboy.” (19:50)

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7. Show Wrap-Up

• Trista: “Love you, Jew.” (20:22)
• Juju: “JB for MVP. Thank y’all one more time. Without y’all, who the hell are we?” (20:23)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Giannis & the Bucks:
  • “He’s letting you know he’s gonna continue to check every box to be a good husband, but he is not happy while he’s doing it.” — Trista, (02:28)
• On the Timberwolves Needing New Guards:
  • “When Mike Conley goes to the ground ... dust comes out of his skin.” — Trista, (06:43)
• On Viral Sports Moments:
  • “My boy need to go straight to the doctor right now. Because you got Covid 79. We're drinking a random cup.” — Juju, (16:31)
  • “Jersey up so high we could see his stomach. ...the most zesty moment I’ve ever seen in the NBA.” — Trista, (15:32)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Jalen Brown MVP Banter: 00:06–00:36
• Giannis Antetokounmpo Discussion: 00:36–03:28
• NCAA Eligibility/Returning Players: 03:28–05:46
• NBA Trade Deadline / Timberwolves, Bulls, Rockets, Jrue Holiday: 05:46–10:58
• “Boy, Stop!” Viral Segment (Coach Head Injury, NBA Slow Mo, Cricket cup drinking): 10:58–18:37
• Warriors’ Rookie “Pods” Tries to Hang: 18:37–20:22
• Wrap-Up: 20:22–20:26

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Tone & Style

• Loose, conversational, brimming with inside jokes, pop-culture riffs, and personal asides.
• Juju brings hype energy and wild metaphors; Trista brings sharp analogies, quick stats, and dry humor.
• Chemistry is playful, improvisational, and irreverent—true to Alley Oop's established voice.

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Summary prepared for listeners seeking all the sports takes, jokes, and viral moments, minus the ads and filler.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome back to the Alley oop. I am Juju Gotti, joined by my sister, Trista Crick. How you doing today, my sister?

[B]

I see you're wearing. I see you got the trophy to your side. The chatter for Jalen Brown winning MVP continues to get higher and higher. Juju, I feel like you kind of know that. I feel like you're kind of showing where your opinion is at. I don't want to derail the show starting off that way, but is that what you're basically showing the world, Man?

[A]

I'm always showing the world my belief in my boy. You feel me? My boy, he was but a boy, man. Now look at him, man. Salsa dancing on random Tuesday afternoons. You did. Come on, man. MVP Jalen Brown right now. Until it's backwards, but neither here nor there. Let's get straight into it. Giannis Antetokounmpo. Self diagnosis. My boy went down and said, you know what?

[C]

Yep.

[A]

That. That feel about like, four, six weeks right there. Yep. That's what the doctor gonna tell me. Did you see that, sis?

[B]

Yeah, I saw it. Juju, it's giving. The last time that we talked about this, where he fell and grabbed his calf, it's giving. I'm hurt. I don't want to play for this team. I'm gonna find every excuse. I. I remember there was a job that I had in the. In the COVID era, and I swear to God, juju, I'm going to tell myself I haven't had Covid one time, but to this employer, I've had Covid 15 times.

[A]

Allegedly. Don't clip this. Do not clip this.

[B]

Do not clip this. But you're like, I need to get a COVID test. I think I have Covid. I had a close contact. I need to quarantine. I became Antonio Fauci out here because I didn't want to go to work. And now that's what I feel like Giannis is doing with this cap.

[A]

Antonio Fauci. It's Antonio. It's a H after.

[B]

I don't even know if that's his first name. I just know he's fouchy.

[A]

All right. Salute, man. But yeah, bro, I think his time is up, bro. It's like, yes, man, we understand it.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

You don't want to necessarily be a butthole because he ain't got that reputation, man. My boy ain't no butthole. He ain't trying to be one, but he can. We could tell, bro, you want to leave, man. It's like we keep catching the strip Club every night, bruh. Go home a night, Right?

[B]

It's actually worse than that Jew is because he's like, the good man that does all the good man things, but lets you know you're the one that's not a good woman. And, like, listen, I'm a loyal man. I pay all the bills. I make sure you got a roof over your head. You drift in, Louis, and you know, like, we can't even get, you know, our kid into the best private school. You're messing around. You're not taking it. You're doing this. All the other husbands that I know, they do, you know, their wives do this for them and do that for them. But I'm loyal. I'm not saying I'm gonna leave you. I don't want a divorce, blah, blah. But you're making it so uncomfortable for her that she feels bad about herself. She feels like, man, maybe I should let him free. Maybe this isn't. He's unhappy. He's letting you know he's gonna continue to check every box to be a good husband, but he is not happy while he's doing it.

[A]

Moving on, man. We got G League players, former NBA players, former army members, former Mortal Kombat characters going back to college because they have eligibility left.

[B]

Did you just say former? I just got, like. Literally, these words just stunned me. Did you say, like, we got Raiden playing for Baylor?

[A]

Yep, Exactly. That boy is electrifying the locker room as we speak.

[B]

We've got Baraka coming in with the. With the uppercut. Swoop move for Kansas.

[A]

Oh, Ms. Y. Kansas. Yep, that's the. That's the one Kansas Jayhawk. Who would have known my boy was a Jayhawk with two knives on his hand? Where was Elm street, by the way? It might have been in Kansas. I don't know, bro. But, yeah, bro, everybody going back to college now, which to me, it opens up a slippery ass slope for Tyrese Maxi at his last retiring age at 38. When he's through with the Sixers being like, you know what? Let's go back to college and win one for the Wildcats. Tyler Hero. Who with me. Let's go back to college. What you think about this scenario?

[B]

Yeah. If you have eligibility left and you're. You've played a long career. Like, I'm surprised Greg. Greg. Odin didn't go back to the Ohio State State when he flamed out of the NBA because he was still 7ft tall, stronger, bigger, faster than everybody else, even though he had one knee that was made out of metal yeah, it's w. Sorry. It's effing wild juju.

[A]

Yeah, that, bruh. I think, bro, I'm telling you, I don't know how this work. I don't know if it's just the co. If you. In the comments, let us know how this work, because I don't know if it's just the ones that went to college for a year or does a brother like LeBron have four years left to get a Buckeyes?

[B]

I think you can't have played right now in a real NBA game.

[A]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. Never mind. Close call. Never mind.

[B]

G league. You're clear. Yeah, but if you've actually stepped foot on a, you know, at a Sixers game or what, you can't play. But I listen. The rules change every day.

[A]

Juju down. The dream is dead. Tyrese Maxi. Don't think about it, bro. You gotta win one in the actual league, bruh. Moving on, though. Trade deadline is around the corner, ma'. Am. What do you foresee happening? Anything on the horizons? Can you predict? Can you tell? Can you give us some intel of what you've been hearing in these streets?

[B]

Oh, I'm hearing that some Chicago Bulls guards are on the move. And all three of them, IO Desunmu, Kobe, White with the C, and Trey Jones, brother of Tyus Jones, are all targets for the Minnesota Timberwolves. To targets. The target is crazy. That was fun.

[A]

Target is nuts. But that's what. I was letting it ride.

[B]

You were letting it ride? You know, let's be. Let's be real. When Mike Conley goes to the ground because he gets draws contact for a layup, if he even does that, dust comes out of his skin. So they had to figure it out. He's shooting.

[A]

Come on, man.

[B]

He's shooting. The lowest percentage of any player in the NBA right now at 34% from the field.

[A]

Damn, bro. I don't know, bro. Let's. Let's ease up on the veteran, bro. You right, though, because, man, that's Mike Conley. I don't know what you feel wrong. I. I have no reason to not besmerge Mike Conley right now. I don't have none. Besides, it just feels icky, man.

[B]

You know, sometimes I forget about that juju, like these are humans and like that's a legend and he's a all time good guy. And the reality is, I don't care if I'm the owner or the GM of the Timberwolves. We love you, Mike. You're an incredible vet. We have to replace you. You're. You're just washed. That's just what the reality is.

[A]

Chris Brown featuring Kevin McCall and Tyga Deuces.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

If you know what I mean.

[B]

I'm on some new up to her.

[A]

And I thought. I thought his name was Ao. Dom. Dom. New I thought. Was that how you pronounce it? IO?

[B]

IO Bro.

[A]

I think it should be ao. Bro. Put it on the here chat. Let us know should it be I, AO or I.O.

[B]

Listen, I've been. I've been trying to signal to folks for months that for whatever reason there's hella Africans in Portland. So I know how to pronounce IO.

[A]

Hold on now. Let us know what's going on. Do we need to book a flight? We need a charter. Listen, Africans be knowing where the money at. They'd be knowing where the money.

[B]

Australian population, huge. Ethiopian population, pretty big Nigerian population.

[A]

Salute. Salute, man. Yeah, man. But I think that Houston gonna have to make a move before the tread deadline. It might not work. It may work, but they're gonna have to at least try for somebody something like I wish my Buffalo Bills would have done. I'm not even going to go into that right now because that's seven days worth of me yelling into this microphone. But I think the Houston Rockets, if they get somebody like a forgotten Dejante Murray, you feel me? Somebody like that that's just been on the. I. I don't know how hurt he is. Still. Is he still hurt? Come be hurt over here.

[B]

Great, great point. I also think you could even do like a veteran like, you know, who would be awesome. I'd be very disappointed and sad. But if this man is a. Is a certified sniper two way player veteran that you pick up when you're a piece away, I'm interested.

[A]

Drew Holiday, you already know. You already know how I feel about bro. Bro will bring one of these to your front doorstep expeditiously. Yes, sir. That's a great move to make right there.

[B]

If you're Houston and you can get Drew Holiday, which I think will be tough to do.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Now you got a guy who can strap up and who can hit shots and who's been on ice for most of the season nursing a calf injury. So he's got a lot of tread on these. These tires this season. So I would say go ahead and get him because you know that IME Udoka wants a guy. He's already been in the. In. In the. The. In the Boston like family before. I know IME was gone when he got there. But he's been there, he's done that. And so I think for this team, who needs a defensive stopper, but they also need a real guard. Yeah, he's one of the best that you can get, even though he's a little old. But like, listen, Fred Van Fleet will be back in two shakes, so if you want to keep him, then Jrue Holliday is a great bridge point guard.

[A]

I like that. I don't know where the hell two shakes mean, but I'm not. I only want to get into it right now. Now let's get into a segment that we like to call. Boy, Stop. Oh, my damn. What in the. Saber tooth tiger. What in the. Damn Hammerhead shark. What in the. Carl Winslow, who do you owe money to? Sir, did you see this Trist?

[B]

I feel like this is. I'm not quite, quite sure what. What happened here. It's almost like a snowshoe or those. Like those circle half circle claws that you put into the snow to walk.

[A]

Yeah, I see it.

[B]

Got him right into the head.

[A]

I see it, bruh. Or he got kicked in by Mr. Ed. Right? He stunned too close to Mr. Ed and yeah, straight across the car winds, though.

[B]

He had a gym accident. That sounds like what happened to Tiger Woods.

[A]

Exactly. That's what he said. He told the reporters. This is just a gym accident. Don't worry, sir. We are worried. The entire nation is bruh and gonna coach. At least when you coach the game, bro, you gotta put on a stocking cap, bro. Somewhere stocking cap, right. You gotta wear a durag or something. You just can't pull up raw stitch like you crazy.

[B]

Hell, did they shave his hair there too? I think they shaved that back.

[A]

That was saying, bro, you look nuts, bro. You coach, next time you get kicked in the head by Bullwinkle, sit your behind at home and don't coach the damn hockey game that day. Please, sir, I offer you and I extend to you. Oh, boy. Stop moving on.

[C]

I have to agree there. He got scalped by a moose. It can't be anything else. I mean, that's a scalping. That is like a scalping.

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

Jesus.

[C]

Okay, here we go, Brian.

[A]

Next, the video that's sweeping around the nation. The video that's sweeping the nation right now. Bruh, I'm so sorry that this happened to my dog, man. Oh, my goodness, Bro, last week y' all said something about a heated rivalry. And that's exactly what I thought about when I saw this. Goddamn.

[B]

Is it just because of the slow mo or is it because of how his torso move.

[C]

It's got a little hole, bruh.

[A]

It's the slow mo.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[C]

He's not wrong. Look at this adorable midriff showing there. Adorable. Delicious. Some might say delicious.

[A]

It's the slow motion. It's his hair, the bouncing volume and his hair bouncing back. It's the sheer joy white cross my boy face, man, like, what is a happier situation than ever?

[B]

I didn't know Musa Diabate had it like that, you know.

[A]

Come on, man.

[B]

Those two and. And you know what's crazy is no one else around blocking what has occurred. They are ready to, oh, just kiss, bruh.

[A]

Do you. Can you imagine the cameraman getting this? He probably was like, boy, y' all ain't about to believe what I just in slow mo for. I got it in the one, the real one. A red camera he has.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[C]

He.

[B]

He flips his. His throw back.

[A]

My boy like a Pomeranian, man.

[B]

Oh, Musa, you're so funny.

[A]

Look, man. And then guess what? Whatever they got going on, it's between them, bro. We support everything. But to the cameraman that was got all in their business and not letting them have their moment. Boy, stop, man. Get out of your business.

[B]

Jersey up so high we could see his stomach. A lot of questions about the most zesty moment I've ever seen in the NBA.

[A]

Voice. Stop moving on. What's. What's that player's name again?

[B]

For research purposes.

[C]

That is wrong. Dylan. That's just wrong.

[B]

He said that boy looks like a certified top.

[A]

Like, click, click, click, click, swish. I can switch it up anytime like this. Okay, here we go, bruh. I don't understand how in other lands folks just allowed to do whatever, bruh. Can you imagine this happening in the NFL, NBA? Somebody throws something on the court, but bro is a play of the year candidate, though. I say all that to say bro caught it and drunk it.

[B]

Now I think my boy those mannerisms juju are.

[A]

I don't know what's going on with bro salute to him, whoever he is and whoever he loves. But my boy need to go straight. My boy need to go straight to the doctor right now. Because you got Covid 79. We're drinking a random cut thong. You know how crazy somebody got to be to throw a cup on the field?

[B]

What's crazier juju is he drinks it, drops it, and he kicks it another bottle or another cup or something behind another guy. More important.

[A]

No, that's the other guy. The other guy is the Super Saiyan, right? He Kicked a whole nother one. He kicked a whole nother one. My boy is. He is a. He's a Goku. How do you kick that, bruh? Forget bro, who call it and drunk it, bro. The real player is the. The kicker. I played that sound effect not to.

[B]

Tell you guys to move on, but.

[A]

Because it felt applicable to the movement. You gotta explain it like that. I don't know.

[C]

I just never realized that cricket players were this passionate. I just never realized that.

[A]

Right. Good looking or it is willing to get disease.

[B]

One more stop and real quick, because juju is this way. Like, I. Juju's probably got the extra ick from this. Because we know for everybody who's not up to speed, juju won't even eat off of clean, dishwashed forks and knives from the restaurant, let alone some random man who gave you a cup of beer that he probably drank some from. He put his own little Covid lips on your cup and you drank it. That's a level of recklessness that juju, I think, is just absolutely sickened with.

[A]

Right? And he was through with that type of man. He is through it. That's his trash. Imagine that man's trash. That thing got actual buzz crawling through that. And, bro, I used to work at a restaurant. Let's just say I wrapped silverware before. Let's just say. Moving on, last one.

[C]

Okay, here we go.

[A]

We got Brandon Parzemski trying to get in on the conversation. I don't always. We. I always had a homeboy like this right here, bro. Like every homeboy I had thought he thought that was his homeboy, too. Bro, you do not know my homeboy, bro. Back up. You're not in on this conversation. Look, I know good and well whatever Clay said had to do with B part hanging around. Could look at Draymond. Draymond went from whatever, whatever to I cannot believe you just said that. Did you see this one, Trista?

[B]

I didn't see it, but you can tell that he's looking at pods. Like, why is this man who we chose over Klay Thompson? We. We've had multiple years of Clay, and we decided to go with a man that we call pods with. No, no, they are having.

[A]

What do you think, bro? What do you think Clay Thompson said right there, bro? I think he said, man, get your punk ass out of here.

[B]

I'm trying to have you in this conversation. This is the Dynasty conversation. You stay out of it.

[A]

Right, right. He wants some dab. I'm not dapping you off, bro. You are not my homeboy. Get y' all homeboy, man. Be part, boy. Stop, man. Leave them folks alone, man. Let them legends have the conversation, bro. And come on, do something with this Jerry curl. Also be part. I don't know what's happening there. I don't know what religion you serve. I don't know what's happening, but that the Jerry curl. Let it go. Come home. But that right there is all we have for you today at the Alley oop, my sister Trista. Any last words on the way out?

[B]

Love you, Jew.

[C]

Love you.

[B]

Keep it coming. JB for mvp.

[A]

Yes, sir. Ski. And on that note, man, thank y'. All. One more time. Without y', all, who the hell are we? Catch us again this Friday. Same bad time, same bad channel.