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It's over. It's over now. Move over. It's my turn now. New aunt to compose now. Sorry, sorry.
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Ding, ding, ding, ding. Welcome back. Welcome back to the alley oop. I. I am Juju Gotti, joined by my sister as always, Trista Crick. How you doing, sis?
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I'm good. Sun's out. Guns out for us, Juju. Usually we're in sweatshirts, but I see arms for both of us, which means summer's just right around the corner.
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Yes, sir. Man. And breaking news. Out of the wnba, Angel Reese, the Barbie has landed a trade to Atlanta Georgia. Man. Moving forward, the Barbie is one of us. Man. I can't believe it. How you feel about that trade, sis?
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Is, it's tremendous. She already had the montage ready to go, the highlight package. She already had her photo shoot in the Atlanta Dream jersey. Chicago already had a thank you, Angel Reese post ready to go. That thing, those things don't happen in 30 seconds, which is how long it happened after the news broke to Taylor Rooks. Listen, Chicago, you get your two first round picks and you get no players. Chicago continues to do Chicago things and we see that maybe the Chicago sky are the worst organization in Chicago, which means and is saying a lot considering that Juju, they just fired their GM and president of basketball operations, Arturis Carnisovis for the Chicago Bulls.
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Thank God. Damn. And not to mention the White Sox and not to mention the Cubbies a little bit. I know they, they on the uptick right now, but I mean I, I like to cut the, the Chicago sky some slack because they was dealt this hand. They, they had an opportunity, they made a couple of trades and they made a couple of draft picks that weren't necessarily, you know, up to par. They got them in this mess, but I don't think they're as an inept operation or organization as people made them out to be.
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I say that we don't have enough time to go through the litany of things that they did wrong in the last decade. They're, they're literally sharing a practice facility with 80 year old women doing water aerobics, okay? They won't pay. They had Angel Reese in a middle school gym when she had her introductory press conference. They somehow got rid of Elena Deladon. She was MVP caliber. Said, get me the out of here. Beep. You got, you got. Candace Parker walked out the door. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. Courtney Williams at the door. Clea Copper out the door. Marina Mabry out the door. Nobody wants to be with this trash franchise. Pagliaka doesn't make any decisions that are good. He traded a first round pick that's now going to turn into either Olivia Miles or AZ fighter Lauren Betts for Ariel Atkins and Haley Van L. So, I mean, I could go on and bury them further, but I think most people with less grace than you because you give all the grace of God to everybody because you're just a nice person would say that they are garbage and they are getting everything that they deserve.
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They have done some things and they have done those things. So you're right to judge them in that way. So salute to Angel Reese. Being in Atlanta now, man, I think, are you happy? I think absolutely. I think that like more than anything, the basketball side of it, we don't need her to do what Chicago needed her to do. We don't need all that from her having to bring the ball up, distribute, bro. We got real deal shooters and snipers over here. All we need her to do is exactly what she loves to do. Rebounds, me, bounds don't give a damn. Grab it angel. He did, but kick it back out. We got Ryan, we got Big Al. We still got. And look, we still right now got our entire roster. And I don't know how many of these pieces we gonna keep, but for right now, we looking dangerous, man.
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If you can keep Brianna Jones and have her and Angel Reese both start. And if you can keep, which I don't know if you will, Brittany Griner off the bench.
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Yeah.
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With the guard play that this team has, it's. It's scary.
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Right? Right. And Brianna Jones, right now, she's injured, so she's gonna need a little time to come back. But like you say, bro, if we can keep her on the roster until that day she gets back. Holy. Yeah, man. Salute to Renee Montgomery and the Atlanta Dream foundation organization, whatever you call them. You did Cooper flag man. Putting up astronomical numbers, bruh. He's the only person over there allegedly right now in Dallas. But at the. He putting a bow through the hole and breaking records, bro. LeBron's teenage rookie record. I don't know about that. They be making up body records. The first rookie to have a triple double before he went to Rosh Hashanah or like, I don't know about all that, but he's doing so much stuff. Has he played his way back into the rookie of the year conversation? Because it was con nipples, right. For a little while. What you think about that?
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Yeah, I think he definitely has played his way to be in the conversation, I'm a little torn and I want to toss it back to you because. Is it. How do we think about this? Because when you're the number one option on a team and your usage rate is almost 30%, which Cooper flags is itch and you're on a bad team, it should be easier to score than when you're the fourth option or the third option on a team that's moving up in the Eastern Conference. But on the other hand, this is what I'm also thinking with my other half of my head. They can just key in on you and trap you if you're on a trash team and you're the only one that is able to put the ball in the hoop and basically say, hey, we'll treat you like the Washington Wizards did in the fourth quarter against Bam at a bio and. And make somebody else score. So what do you think about that in terms of how do we frame Cooper Flag's production?
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I feel like you frame it in this manner if it was a draft tomorrow. Who you picking first out of the rookies this year? Like whatever your answer is, that's the rookie of the year for me. Because you did. Because we starting organizations from scratch. And I feel like Jason Kidd, admittedly in the beginning said I'm gonna give him a little bit more than he can handle just because our season is looking like this anyway. We're gonna have my boy bringing up the ball. We're gonna have him doing Kyrie things, we're gonna have him playing in the post garden big guys. So I think that all of those things actually did prepare him for this larger role that he probably is going to take on next year on a little bit more of a winning squad. You feel me?
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So, yeah, then we gotta give it to Cooper. We gotta give. We gotta give it to Cooper. I will say this rookie of the year awards never take into account or like they really don't take into account team success. And so. And I don't know why you would start now unless you're trying to take the award from Cooper Flag. But. But it is worth mentioning that this Charlotte Hornets team got good because Con canipple got to the team and all of a sudden lamelo ball started acting. Right? He started playing limiting the dumb lamelo ball decisions from like eight or nine a game to like two or three a game. And yeah, I think he trusts Con Knipple and he's like, all right, I at least know he's going to be where he's supposed to be. I know he's a certified bucket and a score can shoot from three, so I don't need to do everything. And then I got Brandon Miller on the other side. So I think it was like incremental for Charlotte. But Khan was the. The skeleton key that unlocked everything. And now you got Musa Diabate coming in and doing what he's done. I don't think we're having that conversation about Moose unless Khan is there. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, Juju, but I don't think it matters for the rookie year, rookie of the year race. At least it hasn't in the past. But I do think it's worth noting.
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Right? And you know what, bro? Ever since that one zesty moment between Musa and with my boy Lamelo, them boys said, okay, cool, say less. I think that might have been the time. Like I don't know if that was the thing that did it, but that time was the turning point in the season for them Hornets. So sometimes you might need to check online, man. Right now. But Merchant search right now available right now levitaraf.com if you want to rep my sister.
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Oh, we haven't heard that drop in a minute.
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Exactly. Moving on, man. The brother Steph Curry, the world saver, world hero, is back playing for the Warriors. Got almost. They. They smelled victory last night, but at the same time, he still play for the Warriors. How you feel about my boy returning? Does this change anything for them in the playoffs at all?
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It changes the highlights that will exist on the NBA Central page coming off of the Warriors. It'll change me thinking about the warriors in any way because Steph is always doing something, either pregame or otherwise. But does it change the NBA News standings?
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Yeah.
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No. Like not. Not at all. Not at. Not even. I'm not thinking about the warriors until they figure out a way to get somebody to help Steph and to get. Maybe. Maybe they're trading Jimmy Butler coming off of an ACL tear and they move him somewhere where he can get to a better spot. You can stay getting paid. They can find somebody who can actually contribute to winning with Steph next year because I think it's going to be a long time until Jimmy's ready to go. What do you think?
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Yeah, I don't think you can count them out just yet because Steph Curry is maybe the best point guard ever. I guess we could say that.
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I think that's right.
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Magic Johnson. Right. So I. I don't think you can count out that type of greatness. I watched him say the world against France, you dig? I watch against Serbia. Yes. I don't forget. I'm not a what have you done for me lately guy. That's, that's, that's what's wrong with America. Right there they be like, oh, we still on that time he saved Earth. Yes. What do you mean? He saved Captain America, planets, Captain everything. Yes. I'm still give my boy credit for that. So I don't know, I'm not saying I have faith in them, but at the same time, what's wrong with the world? Exactly.
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Save the Earth. Yes.
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Do it again. What have you done for me lately? What? That is Steph Curry. So right. But, so I think that he can help him. But to go with what you said, his teammates have to find a way to just step up and play their role, man. Because last night at the end of the game, number one, I don't know why Steph Curry, Steve Kerr had like four guards out there to guard Shingoon for the game. Tight or leading shot. But at the end of the game, this was the last play. Watch Brandon Pajimski and watch Draymond Green. Draymond said a pick. Follow me, Paul. Follow me, Paul, follow me. Say the pick on him. Not bro. It's two seconds now Steph Curry got to shoot a contested half court shot just because Brandon Podzemski. Look at, look at Draymond telling him, follow me. Two picks on the greatest player ever. Now he's one on one with a dumbass for the game. But you just sitting right there waiting for the Steph Curry to pass you the ball. Is that what you. That can't be what I'm watching.
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Yes, that is what he was waiting to do. Juju, bruh.
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Come on. So you right.
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I think Pods truly believes he's as good as Steph Curry. And, and I've said this before, I said this on Cam and Mace. I think that being an elite athlete, you kind of have to be a little delusional because otherwise like a bad game or a bad set of games can crumble your confidence. And you need to have the most supreme levels of confidence in order to keep going. And like night to night, forget about whatever the happened yesterday. But Pods really does believe that he should get the ball. If Steph Curry gets trapped and he's there on the wing to shoot that
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bruh, get pause out of here, man. Sometime like bro, please just you set that screen right there. This w how Steph Curry came back. 29 bit points, possibly 32. Man, that put Up. That could have put a spark in these warriors that they'd been missing.
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I think so. Juju. They're four games back of the nine spot. They're gonna.
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They playing. They're in the playing. I think they can win that playing game.
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They're going to Portland. And we ran those hoes off the floor.
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Okay, so this is what this is.
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They're slow and guess what? We're healthy. We got Scoot there. We got Denny there, we got Rob Williams there. We got Drew Holiday there. We got Kling Kong there. Kling Kong, Kling Kong there. Ryan Garcia stable, Blake Wesley. We got one after the other and we're moving fast and we're taking the ball. We're going down their throats and saying, hey, can you keep up with young us young guns? No, you cannot. It's going to be a great day Where y going? It's going to be a great day when I go back to the Motor center to watch them send those hoes home.
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Hey, man, my. My sister, she confident in her squad. So. Hey, she say, I listen.
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I'm very confident, man. See, now I'm not confident back against. I'm not confident against the Clippers.
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There we are.
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Or the Suns. But if I'm less confident in playing the Phoenix Refugee Suns over Steph Curry and the Warriors. Yeah, got, by golly, Some changes have got to be made.
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Hey, man, that's a fact. That's facts on facts, man. Moving on, man. Joker versus Wimby. Last weekend it went down in Denver. Five or five hundred and whatever. Thousand feet above sea level. They keep giving a damn about that. I don't putting on your jerseys, bro. Get them. Get the number off the front of your jersey. Denver. Nobody give a damn about that except y'. All. Sorry, I just blacked out for a second. You don't like that, man, Come on, bro. What are we doing? 5,000, 280. It took me a year to understand what the hell they were talking about.
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Oh, oh, oh. I thought you meant like their numbers. Yes. We don't care about what the Elevation
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arena throw Denver across that. Or Nuggets, I don't give a damn. But at the same time. And they got the Joker so they could put whatever the hell they want on their jerseys. The Joker did a phenomenal job against Wimby the other night, including hitting that step back, fall away moonshot for the game. Did you see my boy? Does this matter in. In form of the Nuggets chances in the playoffs? Doesn't matter. The form of An MVP conversation.
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The Sombre. I don't think that's gonna happen. But the Sombor Shuffle is, yeah, one of the coolest in the NBA. Did it on WEMBY over a guy who's 7 foot 5. I saw them standing next to each other. I swear to God, Jokic looks like he's 6 3. It's crazy. Wemby's so damn tall. I think what matters is one Jokic, zero turnovers. Jokic, 40 points. Nuggets trailed by over double digits with nine minutes left in the fourth quarter. Yep, Yoga Chad, seven out of 12 overtime points. But the most important thing is that thick boy Aaron Gordon used his strong ass legs that are all tatted up to get low on Wemby in the center of gravity. Get shifted where he could topple our 7 foot 5 string bean and make it hard on Wimby. And during the clutch, when Aaron Gordon was on him, Wemby struggled. And that's the kind of defense that you need out of Denver. And so with Denver fully healthy, Juju and I want to get your opinion on this as well, you can see the path. What is their upside when Joker is not turning the ball over and he's giving you 40 and Aaron Gordon is doing that defensively and Jamal Murray is scoring like he does. And the role players are just being good role players. They can beat anybody.
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Yeah, bro. And if you remember, my way too early, Finals prediction was Aaron Gore and finals mvp. But the thing about that was, it is just from this game as well, though, we saw it rear its ugly head. Aaron Gore. And although he was doing that fantastic job on Wimby, grabbing his hamstring, limping gingerly back every now and then. And so it's like, as much as I want to believe, because I'm looking at it happen, there's that ugly thing again coming out of the grass. So it's like, if they can stay healthy, I 100 agree, bro. They can go as far as they go. But can they stay healthy, man?
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Can they stay healthy? Ag's been nursing a hamstring for 12 months now.
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Right, bro. And then grieving also during that process was, bro. It's like, man, because him playing fire is way different than salute to Peyton Watson, but that he changes the whole team. So yeah, man, I think they can do it, but they got to do it, man.
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You saw what they did against the Clippers juju. Like, I think between Aaron Gordon's dunk and that corner three against the Thunder, Aaron Gordon's probably the most important player to this Denver team. So he needs to be fully locked and loaded in order for them to be a true contender in the West.
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Right? Bro, I forgot about that buzzer beating okc, bro. My boy had a playoff season. If, if they could have went past the Thunder, him and Halliburton would have had kind of competing playoffs for spectacularness. You did. But for sure, thunder Kevin moving.
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One addendum, one P.S. because this is. This is college, but it's also pros. Michael Malone, head coach of the UNC Tar Heels. I don't have a lot of thoughts except for Holy f.
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Well, Brooklyn. That. That's all I hear. Where he from in New York.
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He's gonna take that hard nose scrabble attitude down to North Carolina and he's gonna punch Duke right in the mouth.
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And also too, if. If my boy Michigan. I mean, by the time y' all hear this, it's gonna be gonna happen. But just know that if Dan Hurley can get this job done tonight, or did he. If he. If he could have got that job done last night, he can write his ticket to whatever coaching job he wants. Because I always felt bad for my boy a little bit that the Lakers offered him that job. He said he turned it down. JJ Reddit swooped in and had a little bit of success. And so I always felt like, bro, you gotta get your lit back. And him getting that lit back would be major. You got to know. Moving on though, to a segment we like to call. Boy Stop. Boy Stop. I know we heard a lot of the, the, the, the. The stuff surrounding Giannis and the bus last week. Him on the play. They say I can't play.
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Tremendous.
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Can you wait on that real quickly?
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It's over, it's over now. Move over. It's my turn now. New onto to compose now.
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Sorry, sorry.
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Who is that other auntie to Kumpo? Is that a fourth?
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That's what I'm saying, bruh. Giannis, I get it that you mad that you want to play or whatever, but bruh, default let seven kumpos on the team, bruh, just for you. Cause just keep you happy. And now you still got a problem, bro.
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20.
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Come on.
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Man of the team are onto takumpos.
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Literally, bro. And he still won't smoke. Damn, Giannis, when. When are you happy, my boy? Like, what can we do?
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Like, you had a chance to leave 29 before. I didn't even recognize.
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29 and 43 are the nastiest numbers in the entire galaxy. And them boys said, you know what we Want them get, boy?
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No, they.
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You know how bad this Milwaukee said
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these are the only ones we're willing to give you.
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Look, we got 43 and 29. Take it or leave it.
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Exactly.
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Salute to all the fans that was in that building, bro. Because that game had to be ass. Once you see your answer to kumpo, to antetokounmpo, alley oop slam, and neither one of the answers compos is the one you came to see, bro. Salute to all the fans. But boy, stop to Giannis complaining that all your family play for the bus, bro. Did you see Don Jones, our guy, Donovan Jones caught two bodies at once, bruh, Yesterday.
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Like I did not see this. I need to see it right now. Show me,
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bro. Watch this.
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Oh, got him.
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, no.
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Get one free.
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Oh, that's a groin strain. Watch him. Groin drain right there. I think it's water. If I'm a. If I am one of those players, who are they?
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Oh, my God.
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They're playing the Pacers. Okay, so if I'm a Pacer, I'm saying, listen. There was water on the ground. He fell. And in the exact same spot, he fell. I slipped. You saw my old body go into a split like I'm on Dancing with the Stars, homie. Next to me, he falls. That was not a nasty, nasty crossover. That's just a bottle of water that fell.
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But that's a rip scrotum boy. I don't know how rip scrotums look, but that's exactly what I was. But you're not. And then, you know, Donovan wife, she took to the Internet. Coco Jones. And this is my problem. Once you embarrass me on the court, it's cool. But once your wife start posting that. You embarrassing me now. I got smoke, bro. I can't wait to play out again. What's up, bro?
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No.
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Oh, my God, no. With the church music, we fall down, but we get up. Who that? Donnie McClur?
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Coco Jones put that to her following her peoples, her followers of 5 million, 4 million people. And put. We follow, fall down and we get up again. First of all, foul ass song to show some nasty passion. It's Easter. No, Coco Jones, you show some compassion. It's Easter. He may have risen, but they never did.
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Oh, my God, bruh. And I salute to the brother. Them brothers on bruh. Five point. Some million folks just got introduced to those two brothers with real scroll thems, bruh.
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That's rough, bro.
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But look, salute though. You get the job done. Hey, if my wife. She crossed somebody up. I'm posting it in my story to Donnie McClurk and we fall down. But we.
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That's crazy juju. You're the basic stuff at finding these things. Truly. Like I didn't. This was not on my radar and that might be the the biggest girl boy stop of the month
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for sure, man. But hey man, at least them brothers tried. They tried to guard the spider man. He just started hitting them with no wells. And then Coco hit him with the Zendaya whatever she doing spider man. But yeah, but that's gonna do it for another episode of the Alley. Ooh man. Thank you as always for joining audience man. And thank you as always to Ms. Rebecca Donahue and my boy, the distinguished Dylan. Any last words on the way out of here? Trista?
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What was more impressive and savage the vocal riffs for the super bowl national anthem. Which did she eat more that or did she eat those boys up for the Indiana Pacers with that post on Easter, bruh.
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I don't know if they. If they are fans of Coco Jones. I know for sure. Album deleted from the phone. CDs broken, smashed. My baby, she like Coco Jones. I'm sorry baby. We don't like her anymore. Let me get that purse I bought you with her face on it. Over with, bruh. Yeah, man. And if you out there, make sure you are following the DLS Hoops channel on YouTube so you can watch us live, man, what you just heard, you can see this go down, bruh. And also on Fridays you can catch us on the at levitar show page live in an living color. Catch us again this Friday. Same bad time, same bad channel.
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You know what? Some we all fall down. But do we get up?
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But we get up.
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Episode: Alley Oop 173: Rookie of the Year Race: Flagg or Knueppel?! + Giannis Has HOW MANY Brothers?!
Date: April 7, 2026
Hosts: Juju Gotti & Trista Crick
Broadcasting with their signature irreverence and sharp basketball insight, Juju Gotti and Trista Crick dive deep into the latest stories lighting up the NBA and WNBA landscapes. This episode swings from blockbuster trades and rookie showdowns to Denver's elevation pride and Milwaukee’s surplus of Antetokounmpo brothers, with healthy doses of humor and fiery takes throughout.
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On Chicago Sky’s Management:
“They’re literally sharing a practice facility with 80-year-old women doing water aerobics.” – Trista Crick (02:19)
On ROY Criteria:
“If it was a draft tomorrow, who you picking first?... that’s the rookie of the year for me.” – Juju Gotti (06:35)
On Steph Curry’s Value:
“He saved Captain America, planets, Captain everything. Yes. I’m still give my boy credit for that.” – Juju (10:47)
On Giannis’ Brothers:
“Giannis… the default let seven Antetokoumpo’s on the team, bruh, just for you.” – Juju (21:44)
On Social Media and Embarrassment:
“Once your wife starts posting that – you embarrassing me now. I got smoke, bro.” – Juju (24:30)
On Coco Jones' Viral Post:
“First of all, foul ass song to show some nasty passion. It’s Easter. No, Coco Jones, you show some compassion. It’s Easter.” – Trista (24:53)
Packed with biting takes, run-on riffs, and basketball nerdery, this episode offers a whirlwind tour of trade drama, award races, and basketball soap opera. Whether dissecting team dysfunction, marveling at rookie talents, or roasting NBA family dynasties, Juju and Trista keep it lively, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish.