The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 135 | Major Trail Blazers Win, Lakers Dominating, & Cooper Flagg Struggles + The Wild Airline Video Everyone’s Talking About!

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

The hosts of The Alley Oop Basketball Show — Juju Gotti and Trysta Krick — break down a wild week in hoops and beyond. The Portland Trail Blazers pulled off a major upset over the OKC Thunder, the Lakers are looking flat-out unstoppable, and Cooper Flagg is suddenly on a surprising losing streak. Plus, a viral video of a disgusting airline sanitation issue has everyone talking — and gagging.  Tune in for real talk, wild takes, and plenty of laughs — only on DLS Hoops. NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY @DLSHOOPS: https://www.youtube.com/@DLSHoops #NBA #TrailBlazers #Lakers #CooperFlagg #BasketballShow #NBANews #ViralVideo #DLShoops #AlleyOopShow #SportsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I cannot believe Juju, you have the gall to wear a, not just a Celtics jersey, which we know you're a Celtics fan, but to wear a juice Jalen Brown jersey on the heels of him getting another head smudge onto some other grown man's jersey. You know what? Listen, Jalen Brown is your brother in Christ. And even when, because I know that's pretty much all your brothers are brothers in Christ, anybody who would rep a man after his lowest low, actually, I'd take that back. That's a true ride or die. There we are.

That's a true rider die. As a matter of fact, let me make sure I hang on to that. this while we say this topic as well because this did happen. People like to act like this didn't happen just because for some reason. This happens. This happening, but at the same time, my brother didn't have a, is that like that this is happening. This is happening. This is happening.

T is happening. But my brother did have another smud that was heard around the world again. Miss Rebecca, you had it cute. I took too long. But yeah, man. It's the Washington Wizards last night. My boy doesn't smushed another one. And I think I'm turning the corner on this.

Take it away, Miss Rebecca. Oh, damn. Yep, drives to the hold. Drives to the holes. Is that Kishon George? Yeah, it is. He got Kishan George. By the way, Kishan George, you're asking for it

because you're wearing a T-shirt underneath your jersey. Is that what you were about to say? No, I think, look, I have turned the corner on this completely. I was feeling sad and kind of like, damn, my boy, going through this right now. But now, I think I like the smudge nation, bro. Smudge nation, stand up. Look, if you're going to call yourself Garland, Jalen Brown, go here. Hey, you're better where you're unsmudgeable Jersey, because I'm smudging shit, bro.

Like, I'm sorry. I like it. The smudster. I like it. Add that to his offensive repertoire. Yes, I can give you a bucket. Yes, I can give you $35 right now. But guess what you're going to take home with you?

Smudge on your jersey. Instead of a jersey swap, it's like, well, that's just as good. That's actually better than a Jalen Brown signature. That's more of a signature. You could probably sell that on eBay for crazy work. That's where we're at now. You see what I'm saying? my boy feeding families now we don't i don't turn the corner on this now now my boy giving out

memorabilia imagine o gna nobi jersey with the jalen brown smudge on ebay oh boy 500 000 easily yeah because you can you can fake a signature but you cannot fake the jalen brown smudge because everyone will be on wax everyone will have been tea for us to be talking about. So Juju, you know what? Go ahead and ride for your guy, Jalen Brown Juice. Let him know that no matter what

when he feels like he's at his lowest and we all are just besmirching his hair line that you have his back. I got my boy back. Look, also too, this is a story I don't tell too many people, but only like four people know this. Me, Jalen

Brown, my home girl, KK, and my girlfriend. I know this. Remember, think back, it was a cold night in Indianapolis, and the All-Star game was happening that weekend.

And my boy, Jay Bizzle, he went out and had a dunk contest that wasn't necessarily awesome to the public. It was not. After that, though, he was hanging out around the arena, and I pulled up on my boy.

I say, look, bro, don't worry about none of this. This don't. matter folk blowing you but they crazy as hell they're going to be sad when you win that championship this year and you're the finals MVP that conversation happened right before my boy became the finals MVP that's why it meant so much to me i talked to my boy at his lowest day i say look remember this face right here when you when you're holding that trophy and i know my boy i do salute moving on the late

The Lakers, look, the Lakers looking awesome right now. They handled the Spurs last night in a good combat win, you feel me, down Austin Reeves, already down LeBron James, still found a way behind 70-7, a.k.a. Luca Vandross. That's a good one. Luca Vandros is a good one. Yeah, I got a good credit to my sister, Katie Nolan, for that one. That's not my word. She said she wants some Marvin Gay, some Luca Vandross, a little LeBrona, and let this put this artie off right. Wanna be, what a be, what a be, what a be, what a be, what a be, going to be, gonna be, gonna be.

Yo, Luca looks skinny as hell. I'm not gonna lie to you, Juju. Bray. The L.A. L.A. make you want to do this right here. His face. His face, his cheekbones are popping out. Yep.

You were starting to see a little shoulder insertion muscle over there. And he looks like he can get up and down the floor like crazy. So without Austin Reeves, who I thought he was kind of just fading against the Blazers, didn't want to play on the back-to-back. And I was like, oh, he just disrespect. No, he actually has a groin injury. So without, you've now played games, multiple games, without LeBron, you've played multiple games without Luca Van Dross,

and you've played multiple games without, what do they call him, Alabama, Alabama, Larry Bird. Larry Bird back there. Hey, come on, wait a second. Breaking new. You buried the lead. I ain't even see a bit dog back there. Come on, man. We're clocking tea, man.

Come on, bro. That was for you, Juju. Yes, sir, man. So you got multiple games without these shot makers, these creators, these bucket getters. Mm-hmm. B-Gs. And what is their record? They're seven and two right now?

Seven and two. You've played a pretty difficult-to-ass schedule. You had nobody when you played the Blazers. You were nine and a half point underdogs and you smacked them up. On the road. I hate even saying all this. I hate the Lakers so much. But they really do look good.

You got Jackson Hayes over there looking like he's, I don't know. Hakeem, you got him going up for laws. Okay, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, no, no. Okay, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Let's bring it back. But he, but he does look like Derek Lively.

He looked like Hussim to be that right now. He's looking like, yeah, he's looking like the centers, the, that got reinvigorate, the Daniel Gaffords of the world. There we go. Roy Hibbert's of the world. The Roy Hibbert's of the world. He's looking like. the guys that Luca has these amazing lob connections with that can run the floor and just

dunk that's all you need to do just run the floor jump and Luca got your back okay you don't you got a lot happening with Dominating he's not dominating but he's at least playing above his five million dollar contract that you paid him for right looking good so far listen you got Jake La Ravia Jack mashed potatoes and Gravia I like it Look, look, we might have to drop a album after this show Yeah You got Nick Smith

You got Nick Smith looking like Steve Smith Okay He was giving us the business, dude You always like People were like, who is this Smith Jr? I was like, people don't remember that Nick Smith Jr. was a top three kid coming out of high school

When he went to Arkansas So he's no slosh Nick Smith Anyway all that to say the lakers do look formidable offensively at least the defense is probably not going to be great but they can come back on anybody from 20 down yeah bro it's looking scary because like you said that's not even kind of close to their best effort just yet and breaking news lebron james just said that he is well the people just said that lebron james has been cleared for physical contact full contact you did for he's been cleared to come back now my boy

unseen enough he like look no boy is seven and two without me right now I don't got all my fits off that I wanted to get off for real my son jersey my other son got two points I think I think I'm ready to come back he saw that Lucas step through two defenders last night he were like, bro, I'm coming back tomorrow. No questions asked. But salute to the Lakers, but I think we buried the lead right now. How dare I start this show without giving my sister's team just as much as I'm giving my team right now? The Portland Trailblazers slayed the dragon. They are the first to say, the first to say this year and beat the thunder. Take it away, Miss Rebecca.

Come on, man. Look, got the job done with Tiago Spanter at the helm, man. Gade them folks they first lost. 16 games in a row, my team has lost in the thunder. That's tough. Come on, man. You got the runway right now, sis. Go ahead, take it away.

We ended up coming home after an NBA. embarrassing. Well, not coming home, staying home. We should have gone home on Monday night when this team played against the Lakers. And like I said, Nick Smith looking over here like Steve Smith, putting the team on his back with 25 points. Okay, so I'm like, all right, if we can't muster something up against these Lakers without anybody playing. Right. What is going on? Why are we four and a half point underdogs only to the defending champs that just beat the shit out of the club? Clippers. I was like, this is just not going to. I'm going to go to the game, but I don't think it's going to go well for us. And then instantaneously, we're down 20. Instantaneously. I'm like, okay. And I'm looking over, my guy Justin Verrier from the ringer sitting next to me, which, shockingly, he lives in Portland now. So we got a couple of net, salute, got a couple of national smack talkers over here at the media table looking at each other like, you know, this

Blazers team might actually not be very good. I said, you know, maybe you shouldn't have spent all that air time talking about us on the ringer on group chat. Shout out to them. Maybe I shouldn't be saying this Blazers team is for real. And it was a slog. I'm ready to disown Shaden Sharp.

This man doesn't know basketball. He's out there looking like a space cadet. We got we got then all of a sudden just something clicked after halftime. We got people. People don't know his name, but his name, Duop.

Duop, Marith over here. Pow, pow, pow, p, p'o. Four and threes for the big man. Four threes. Man, come on. And then you look up, it's kind of like the reverse of what you normally see with OKC where like they're up to and then you go and go to the bathroom. You come back, they're up 20.

You like, they're up 20 and all of a sudden we're up one. I was like, whoa, what happened here? And then seven minutes left in the game comes. and we're in it, and I'm like, okay, this is kind of go time. Who knows what this is? This is where OKC makes their living by shutting the door. And then your guy that's been besmirched by the national media because he won a championship was the key piece of a championship team in the Boston Celtics.

All he does is go places and win. He goes to Paris and is a part of a long, Olympics run to win gold again. Didn't do a lot on that team, but he still was doing stuff. Yeah. And then he's banged up, coming into the season, and everybody's like Drew Holiday is washed, and he's making too much money,

and what is Portland doing, trading for him? And so seven minutes left in the game, Drew Holiday puts the team in his backpack, in his Duffy, and says, I am the man, this I am the cat, now just contested three after contested three strapping up Shea Gilges Alexander gets into the mid-range Oh, you thought you were with me?

You are not easy mid-range shot And then all of a sudden the Blazers is up seven or eight And he's just the stadying force And I thought to myself, where are those critics now? Where is Zach Lowe now? Where's Bill Simmons now? No shade but like seriously Because everybody was like, this doesn't make any sense Why would they want to go get a guy making this much money on this young team?

He's a veteran. It just makes absolutely no roster construction sense. And to that I say, did you watch Drew Holiday, turn back the clock last night? Defensive prowess, scoring, ball handling, creation, leadership, steadiness, and beaten the team that had been unbeaten. We slayed the dragon. Bravo. Everybody give my sister a round of applause right now. Like, come on, man.

We don't recap stuff like that. That's the biggest recal ever, man. Come on. And she ain't even mentioned the hero in this household. This household right here celebrates this man every single time Portland is on at a thousand o'clock Eastern Standard time. A thousand o'clock. My brother, two money come here.

Bro, I don't, I'm going to follow that man wherever he go. No matter what. Now, salute the draft kings, our partners, you already know what's happening. When I see two money in Camara, I'm going over no matter where. I don't care because my boy doesn't prove itself to me. But at the same time, he stepped up in that second half. His defense, come on, man. Like, you can't pay for that.

Well, I guess you can pay for it for the right price. They're paying, my boy. But his defense of prowess. put that beside my boy my cousin Jeremy Grant oh my goodness come on man them boys in Portland got something to say this year they yes you know I mean yes uh Chauncey billups he besmirched them right quick like but you know how good you got to be to beat the besmirch or the feds on your ass the mafia on your at leco scronos girl now come on man and then what in doors and also and also and

And also, shout out to Danny Avdia, because he was one for 11, had gone to the free throw line 10 times, and ends up one shy of a triple double to end the game and probably should have gotten the triple double because they didn't give the assist to him on his fifth assist when Drew Holliday hit a shot that was passed from him. So we need a stat correction draft kings. Anyway, Danny was out there balling. He looked quick. He looked able to slash.

He was hitting tough shots. He was getting into the lane. He was taking contact and the reps. The reps are in mid-season form. Tomfoolery. Bull, ishery. Come on now. They were trying to give the thunder that game.

I watched every second, every possession. And I said, they don't want us to win this game. They don't. Forget what. They even, that foul, they even called it a landing space foul, like with two seconds left on the clock. Thank God they didn't say he was behind the line. and give him three free throws and send us to overtime

where dogs go to die, Juju. I was losing my mind. I was losing my mind. Right. The whole hood let off a celebration when they saw my boy Isaiah Joe toe on the line. I was like, okay, yeah, there we are.

We back. Salute to the Blazers, man, and Tiago Splitter. Look, they're going to make some noise this year. No questions about that. You feel me? I am just absolutely shook. not just the fact that they are, I think, only have one win.

But the fact that we've got Jason Kidd out here trying to do the same thing with Cooper Flagg that got him fired from the Milwaukee Bucks doing it with Janice onto Ticumpo. Point guards are not built. They are grown. Yeah, man. That man is not a point guard. Got my boy losing for the first time in his life. Go ahead, Ms. Rebecca.

Play the clip. Play the clip. Play the clip. Play the clip. A club post game last night. Yeah, I think Max said it fine. I mean, for me, it's the most, you know, life since, you know, I think ever. So, you know, it's obviously a lot different.

You have to adapt to just playing a lot more games and, you know, get used to that. But, you know, I wouldn't say anybody's happy. You know, guys obviously are trying to stay. I don't know that we've got a lot more games to go, and it's still really early. But, I mean, I'm speaking personally, I know it's not fun. Just keep losing and losing games. So I can make a change and hopefully start, you know, making steps to our game. How?

How are you going to do it? How are you going to do it, Coup? How are you going to do it? You don't have a point guard, sir. You got Indiana Pacers found their way to get Mac McClung, and you guys are still rolling out with this yonan. plan we're going to turn cooper flag do what we did with yonis yonis is an absolute ego maniac monster ball handler now because because jason kid besmirch because jason kid decided he was

going to try to convince yonis that yonis should be the fulcrum of the offense and yonis will never give the ball up ever again to save his life do not fall into that trap cooper flag you're better than this we got to get to the most important segment that runs the entire out of you organization Boy stop Miss Rebecca

what you got for us today Take a position on this What would you both do What would you both do And I have a thought In this situation

Stand by All right So we got I see the floor And I see some sandals It seemed like an airplane Is that a McDonald's order in the plane? Oh, he's got his socks on hold up

Oh no On the airplane Oh no His sock is wet His sock What was Okay so that is the toilet Overflowed

Oh no Into the aisle Where the passengers Were sitting That's what that was No no no no no no What am I gonna do I am going

criss cross apple sauce first of all socks going off okay well the sock is already bare foot well the sock is already filled with piss so the socks got to come off

I'm going to take a t-shirt off or something wrap it around my foot put my shoe back on work conditions put my shit put my shoe back on I'm going criss cross applesauce and I'm not moving until they

go grooving and take that toilet water off the aisle. Interesting. What would you do, Juju? I ain't going to lie to you. I'm going to scream at the top of my lawns for as long as I can and let them know how grossed out and how my plane ticket didn't come with piss on my socks. And I'm going to sue.

I don't know if it's what air. I'm not going to say an airline because I don't know which airline. But whatever airline that I'm riding on currently, it's now going to be called Jujuju airline Exactly Juju West Juju Airlines Like come on

bro, I'm sitting in my seat and I got PPO It's called Delta Delta Gotti Airlines Exactly We're gonna be

We're coming up United Jew And my sister My sister's gonna be flying From Portland That'd be a different kind of airline Exactly

That's how we get to the peace talk That's right I got to tell you I'm not sure if I would complain in this situation because, like, I'm a quasi-elderlyish, whiteish woman. They're going to duct tape my ass to the plane. Like, these guys have, they are very unfriendly. Like, I could just see my ass duct tape to the plane.

Why are you complaining? There's not water anywhere but there. And, you know, and so I land, you know, piss all over me. And I ain't going down as a Karen. I'm not doing it. I'm not being duct taped. Mr. Rebecca, I love you so much. My boy, stop right now.

Girl, stop. Piss all over me. Never, never. Never. Listen, this is not our Kelly party. It's a golden shower airlines. We're not doing that. No, no deal.

You know, the thing that these airlines do, the thing that these companies do, they gaslight you into thinking you should just accept whatever. Exactly. You know what? That's how I feel. They're like what?

Like, that was beyond, so what a man died on your airline right next to you on the aisle? So what the window blew out? So what? So what you watch? multiple passengers put a needle through this man's chest and try to blow

into this pen container and then and watch him die for your very eyes and you spent $275 one way to do so are we giving you a credit back take this $25 in this free Wi-Fi and be happy with it $25? No, take this

300 miles on your account. Yeah exactly down 300 yeah you go nowhere they give you $30 They give you $30 back in credits. Look, man, and that concludes another episode of the Alley Oop, man. Thank you so much, as always, to my sister. Look how the son hit my sister's skiing right now.

Look how it's hitting her hair. That's what happens when you slay the dragon. That's what happens when you beat the champs. You just get an aura around you until you lose. You did. Also, much and big thanks, as always, to my brother Dylan, the Distinguished Dillon, as well as my sister, the Routy Rebecca.

Donna Hugh, check her out coming to a city near you. You dig it. Thank y'all for locking in with us. Catch us this Friday on the DLS, whatever they call it. Channel.