The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 136: Jokić Drops 55, Beal’s Season Ends, Nico Fired, Hidalgo Goes Nuclear & Steph Still Elite!

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

The Alley Oop Basketball Show is BACK with Trysta and Juju breaking down one of the wildest weeks in hoops. Nikola Jokić casually drops 55 points, Bradley Beal suffers a season-ending injury, the front office says “Nico… pack it up,” college women’s hoops is cooking thanks to Hannah Hidalgo’s monster performance, and 37-year-old Steph Curry continues to remind the league he's still that dude. Juju and Trysta give you jokes, real analysis, chaos energy, and all the takes you need to stay caught up on the NBA and college hoops. NEW EPISODES OF ALLEY OOP EVERY TUESDAY ON DLS HOOPS: https://www.youtube.com/@DLSHoops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Did you freaking Our man, Yokic. Yeah. Last night, two nights ago? MVP. You know, he could have put up 80 points if he wanted to. Yeah. He had 25 in the first quarter.

In the first quarter. Yeah. Yeah, he locked in right now for the MVP. Guarantee Locked a lot of the year. Do you watch shows about serial killers ever? Absolutely not. Like, I try not to at all. My mom loves all those serial killer shows.

I like Dexter. And one of the things that Dexter always did when he was basically the plot of the show, no spoiler alert. He's a guy who's like a blood spatter analyst that works for the police department, but he's actually a serial killer that kills serial killers. Oh, major spoiler alert. I did not know that right there. It's actually based in Miami.

It really should be a Dan Lebitard show. And so, anyway, he brings in donuts every day for the crew to, like, make himself seem normal. And I was talking to somebody on the group chat last night, and they said that Yokic, when Nurkich was traded to Portland and Yokic had the full-time starter role, he was walking down the tunnel with a bag, like a five-bag. pound bag of like loose candy and just offering candy to everyone in the tunnel that he could. And I was like, that's what a serial killer on the court, that is, trying to make himself look human. He's like, everything about him that you see looks human, except for when he steps on the court. Did you see the floater? Do we have the floater, Mr. Rebecca? When did he develop that in his game? You know, good and down well, Ms. Rebecca ain't got no damn floater.

Miss Rebecca, whole back just starts sweating. There we are, ooh, the big screen way, too. Yeah, I like that. She learned a new trick. All right, the clippers where he was orange-ass jerseys. Woo! He didn't even shoot that guy. What?

Listening audience, he's dribbling and just, he went to lay it up, and it just floated from his hand to the nets. Well, and we've seen players with floaters before. I just don't see, I haven't really seen a lot of Yokich floaters. Yeah. You know, he's putting these kids on skates. The clippers are now, I think, lost their last six games. They're just a mess.

Bradley Bill out for the year. Right. Not to mention that part. Bradley Bill out for the entire season dealing with a hilt fracture. I'm like, bro, brad, is the glass man, bro. It's time to hang it up. It's time to hang it up. I'm sorry.

you don't hijack the whole son's future as well as now the clipper's future with your hurt self like i think bradley bill is a dog d o double g like snoot now but at the same time your best ability is what your availability and my boy be available in street clothes only for the past what umpt 10 years even with the wizards my boy would hurt i'm not saying i'm not trying to get in the way of your money At the same time, it's time to hang it up. What kind of dog is Bradley Bill? My boy, blue nose.

You feel me? Oh, my, sir. Man, come on, brother. We're not going to keep, we're not going to play with Bradley Bill name, bro. We just ain't seen a healthy one in years, Brad. Come on, my boy, got the Kenny Smith early at stage right now. He was healthy in Phoenix. He was healthy in Phoenix.

And he looked, he looked so. Was he mentally healthy? Okay. here we go here we go respect okay look see now mental health don't matter look my sister

the besmirche ladies and children where was that where was that grace for Brandon Ingram when he threw the water bottle at cuz nah that's different bro you got glow sitting right there two seats down but he's throwing water on everybody bray not grow up man

Bradley Beale's a hot mess meanwhile norm Powell the guy that they discarded for Bradley Beal is probably going to win like maybe most improved player maybe six men of the year I don't know but he looks really good. Right. And on top of that, if, I mean, salute to LeBron, salute to the king, but remember, if the king would have just gave us like an extra day notice last year that you didn't want to

play in an all-star game. Bro, Norman Powell is an all-star. One time, I'll start on his resume already. So he might not even be considered for these awards. So it's kind of like a gift and a curse he didn't make that team last year. It's more of a curse. I'm sorry. All right, did you see OkC put belt to ass to LeBron's Lakers? I mean, all the LeBron's Lakers still is the biggest question. It's a great question. I think they're Jerry Vanderbilt's Lakers at this point. You're not going to.

You're clowning. It's Lucas Lakers and it's Austin Reeves' Lakers. Austin Reeves says he's not going to ask for an exorbitant amount of money from L.A. Because he wants to stay there. I think that's cap. He is eligible for, I think, five years, 200 plus. Mm, 200. How much you think he'll take from the Lakers minus that 200?

Because if he can make 200 plus, then Lakers going to give him away. 150? If he could go so, he says he's not obsessed over millions on his next contract. they are they are they can offer him let's see I'm trying to

five years I got to get the number right because people get mad five years 241 million or four years 178 million elsewhere

so let's split the difference pay me five years two oh five yeah Okay, well, now, I also, I mean, if it's me, pay me, what, what they say, four years was? Four years, 178. Look, pay me five years, 178, right?

And text me aspiration number who caught Co-I was doing on it. And we'll get it right. We'll make it right. Listen, I'm down to plant some trees, too. I will do stuff. You feel me? Okay. Like, I will, I'll put something on my shirt.

shoes or my shirts or listen I will actually if you send me the Ponzi scheme plug I will actually make it look like I'm working for them I won't do it quite it which is absolutely nothing say it again moving on speaking of all good we got to go to

the ladies game right now we know the W we know the Vegas Aces are your champion right now and probably will be so for the foreseeable future because those CBAs ain't looking too negotiable right now but last night in women's college hoops

Hannah Hidalgo Take a bow, sis I salute you That's a blue nose right there Right That's a blue nose Forty four Four points

Nine rebounds Four assists And the most astonishing stat Not this one Miss Rebecca Not just yet This is a different team But I like where your head is at You are on fire with tenacity

Right now That's not that one either Mr. McRaeck this one though we're gonna get you i'm gonna get you a hell of her dog all jersey i'm i'm not feeling good about any of this but just go ahead push x push the x button that makes feel a little bit i need an eject button and eject i'm like trying to push the down button like right let's like go here 16 steals there we go the most impressive stat of the day bro 16 steals ma'am she didn't play like pretty much the entire fourth quarter

Are you kidding me right now, man? Or as my little nephew, like to say, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? How many minutes do she play in this game? I don't give a damn 16 rebound. I don't care how many minutes she played. You're not still in the ball for me 16 times, man. Who is the point guard?

He played only 28 minutes, did you? Brough, who is the point guard on the other team? Because you've been getting your cookie. Do you have cookies left for the next game? Listen. Or do you just got scraped milk from... The Akron Zips. That's who they are.

I don't know anybody on this team. Okay, here we go. We got... We got Shana Brew. We got Izzy. We got Izzy. Izzy? Ozzy Calloway.

I see you, sis. So let's look at the depth chart here. See who she was getting the cookies from. I don't go down what the depth trap here. We need to call Skylar Diggins and tell her to bring that milk jacket. and give it to who you say the zips the zips everybody everybody on the squad needs some milk man they'll get that boy some milk they that the mean say bray getting them baby some milk now because hannah hodalgo got cookies from each and every one of y'all last night also though

at the same time in the same breath last night in the women's college game my dog Audi Crooks 43 Pants 7 for 9 free throws Of course But the most Amazing stat

Still not this video Just yet Miss Rebecca I promise When we're ready for this video We're gonna hit you up And we're gonna be like Miss Rebecca

Miss Rebecca We're not there yet That's LSU We got a 10 We got a Outty Coox plays For the Iowa State I'm on my body

Like a cyclone Bro, I already had, what I don't say, 43 points in 19 minutes. Excuse me, ma'am? It's all she was doing was getting lazy. I'm sorry, right? I'm sorry, ma'am. I think you had enough cookies tonight, too, because Jesus Christ, who is on the defensive side of the ball?

In 19 minutes? She has incredible footwork. Bro, come on. Using her size to dominate, not recklessly, but with poise and with class. And that's just a lot of buckets in 19 minutes. A ton of them, bro. Like, come on, man. Get whoever they were playing the same milk jacket, Scholar Diggins.

You got a lot of milk in that jacket. Get them girls some milk too, bro, because they need some. Salute to the women's game, bro. We're going to cover them more than the average show covers them this year here at the alley. And speaking to that, we got, Ms. Rebecca, here it is. LSU. LSU last night.

They had a game against Charlotte. Now, before the game, Charlotte made a TikTok that said, when you're about to play LSU, when you know LSU about to play some real competition, finally. Miss Rebecca, pull up the halftime score. I like the confidence. Right. Oh, you go to video

You're driving the crazy First you want the score Now you want to tick-t-tip Which one do you want kids Which one you are right How come every time You try to share your screen I go full screen for a half a second

And then you go to the shares I have no control over that That's what Riverside does She has no control You know she has a lie That is a shit I get the share button And it does what it does to you

I have no zero control And probably can't Talking sweet thing You're talking, and that's why it goes big on you. All right, which, lovely precious. This is a good one. This is pregame right here. This video, this is a pregame before LSU.

Take it away. Look at them. They look so happy doing dances. They had no idea what they were about to get into. Right. Oh, my goodness. This is so embarrassing, bro. You thought, hey, man, Charlotte fin to go get your girls around for their money.

Pull up the halftime score, Ms. Rebecca. Not even the full score at halftime. How do you think these girls felt when they did that Tic-Tac dance before the game? And the halftime score is... 62 to 17? 62 to 17 at halftime after the Tick-Tot dance that went around the world. The final score was 117 to 59, man. I'm surprised they got the 15.

Right. The second half, they went crazy for real. I ain't going to lie to you because 17 to 59, it should be a step up. But the jokers other day. Okay, so they practiced that dance. They talked to each other before doing that dance. They then got into their warmups, into the bathroom at the arena to do the dance. And then they posted it with that text on screen. thinking they were about to do something and that i would say was a mistake belt to ass in the most asses of belts ways man charlotte tech scholar diggins and tell her bit sis i know you don't gave out milk the two different teams but do you have a sleeve full of milk left because we need some whole vitamin d we need to get our weight up we need to get our skills up we need to get our arrogance down. I don't know how Charlotte ever thought they were going to compete with LSU,

but I'm loving the confidence and feeling very, I'm feeling secondhand embarrassment is what I'm feeling. Right. And secondhand embarrassment, segue, Steph Curry must have felt some secondhand embarrassment this week because it was a lot coming out of that Warriors camp about toughness, about focus. Brandon Potsamski got through in there under the bus a little bit. It's Pajemski. Pajemski There you go It's Pajinsky

I ain't know That D and that Z made of jumps I'd be saying PART Zimp You know what I mean I'm learning I'm willing to learn You feel

You're learning All the Eastern European White names I got you With the Jerry curl Having Eastern European whites A lot of going on

Steph person Right I mean he said He said he wanted to be Better than Steph But I mean What's the answer You pose a girl there

You feel me, what do you want to be? I want to be better than Michael Jackson. If you ask me how I want my music to go. Now, this is no disrespect to Michael Jackson, of course. But come on, man, I got to aim high. And my boy, my, Brandon Pott, Junkski, you feel me? There you know, yeah, you know.

He aimed at how he said, want to be better than Steph. But Steph had to remind him fault last night, like, okay, better than who? 46 points last night against the San Antonio Spurs. Five rebound, five assists. You know what I mean? Scooby snacks. But this man's 37 years old. I know we give a lot of credit to LeBron being 41, the Aaron Rogers.

Bray, hats off to the 37-year-olds out there getting it done, man. Hellman, Katie, still looking great out there, bro. How you felt about that win last night? You know what's crazy is every time we feel like, oh, and the Reddit and the Instagram and the X chat pops off. like oh step's falling off a cliff oh step's showing his age oh he looks like he's a half step slow he ain't got it no more he's like let me tell you who the f i am listen i can turn these jets on at any time okay don't be playing with me i'm 37 going on 27 and i can do this until i'm 47 i make a buck i scram i'm trying to show y'all who the i am

The things that he does on a night-to-night basis, clearly he's having to do a lot with the Jonathan Caminga drama still circulating, percolating, and bubbling through the locker room. Jimmy Butler's calling them out. We've got a cultural unfit situation happening, and they want to trade them, but they can't trade them until January because they gave them that extension. I don't know if it's just a matter of when, not if, and if you're a team like Dallas, Maybe you say, huh, let's see what we can do. See if we can filter AD their way, finesse them. You can't trade. You cannot trade AD, bro, if you doubt this at this point.

You have to treat AD. No, you don't. Because then you admit in that, bro, we just traded away Luca Donchitz for. They've already admitted that, juju. They fired Nico Harrison. That's pretty much the first step in the admission of you've messed up. I guess so you do. I guess at the Alcoholics Anonymous

salute to all our people out there that's working on themselves. First thing first, my name is Juju and I'm an alcoholic. So you're right. Them firing Nico Harrison was like, yeah,

our name is the Dallas Mavericks and we effed up. Even though, like the owner, somebody had to sign off on that. It wasn't just Nico, but at the same time, Nico was the person with responsible

and understanding of what is to come with that job. He was in charge. Oh, here we go again. I just want to say, if you've taken a quick Google scan, Ms. Rebecca or Dylan, I know Juju knows what he looks like. But if there was a, like, central casting for a dumb, no-knowing basketball owner who, like, is a bit of a hayseed,

that's a hayseed, bro, come on, bro, we can't be throwing on slurs. You know, a Haitian's say slurs. And, hey, see, he doesn't know. He's just coming in there. That would be Patrick Dumont. The only thing is sophisticated looking about Patrick Dumont is his last name. Right. The T is silent.

You look at him and he looks like the third member of Dumb and Dumber. Oh, damn. He looks like an AI version of the owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. Get them. and he and then like all of that how he looks he's even dumber than that that's crazy yeah he was sitting courtside he go uh the the mavericks fan had had it see i was going to go miss rebecca your timing i promise should be studied in the smithsonia because i was i was like you know what mr beck put that video up i'm going to go ahead and throw down and

they get the producer some idea of what the f is coming not you two it's a fucking bingo roulette wheel of bullshit like this might come that might not come this is going to come that's never going to come you can go

fuck yourself to Sunday and just guess just guess all of this we're cutting Dylan this is me having a breakdown I put together

a big prep document I get the shit from Juju three pictures of college players nobody's following two seconds before we

f*** tape he goes to them at the fifth time Back to the video Here we go Bravo Mr. Bethel Listen, it's true

Unfortunately 15 yards man Personal Personal file 15 yards But that was amazing though

I can't help You're right We put you in that position And you already know We gained most shows And that's why we appreciate you so much Because yes

We do put you in awkward positions but you're the best in the business so we expect the best road a video yep bro oh my goodness I'm talking about fire

Nico he goes to sleep at night hearing that shit like imagine his wife in these scenarios imagine his kids like going to the arena going to see my they said that it's easier to play

on the road than it was to play out home in terms of a hot-co environment, Ju-Ju. They have a temporary rolling set of stairs seated next to Nico so he could scurry out like the rodent. He is, here's the thing. Patrick Dumont fired Nico after he sat with a Mavericks fan sitting in a Luca Kudanchich 77 jersey and that just added to the this guy is so dumb like a fan was the was the final straw for you playing courtside with a fan stop it's enough listen you either roll with the guy that you signed off on yeah and let the ship go down let it explode let's see how it goes let's see

what it's like with kairie a d and cooper flag you're gonna have to wait it out another year You're going to have to wait it out. We're going to be bad. This is the only year we have our own draft pick. So let's just be bad. And maybe we'll mess around and get AJ DeBancel. Or maybe we'll get Darren Peterson or who knows. Maybe we'll get one of the Boozer twins.

And so maybe it'll be Kyrie, Cam Boozer, Cooper Flagg, Anthony Davis, Daniel Gaffer, PJ Washington, Derek Lively. That's a squad maybe. Maybe. If they stay healthy, who's stopping them? An ACL. you know what this is right here what's that this is a straight face that's it not ain't no way in hell don't folks fin to get no damn boozer boy last year we gave y'all the golden ticket we told y'all which candy bar it was in you chose a golden ticket

congratulations you get cooper flat don't ask me for nothing else before we get out of here the clippers had a streaker the other not even a streaker a brother ran on the court How do you feel about folks running on courts, man? Because I'd be thinking once you run on the court, you are entitled to whatever comes your way. Hold on. Hold that thought. I have this one. Hold on.

Oh, you do? Yep, hold. These orange jerseys are terrible from the court. I think the same thing. Terrible. And look, I thought this was a AI. My boy is on the court. My boy is like, A.I.

Oh, my goodness. He's running better routes than A.J. Broward right now. Get that boy the whoopsie. Bro, if I'm that security guard and you juke me in front of, what is 20, 30,000 people, when I finally catch up to you, I'm putting your face in the hardwood. What did he have on his t-shirt that he wanted for people to see? I think his mission fails. I mean, he's got some good football moves there.

Yeah, his plant spin game is actually quite good. Right. that's what's you gonna do with joker's like look at joker he's like this bull come on right this bull and the girl right there with the Celsius in her and her little cross body she's like ah that's my doppelganger that's how I would react to that

oh my god there's someone on the car if I'm the security guard she would have got messed up because oh you are you you having a good time seeing this I'm fin to put his face in the hardwood on the LA logo like we're not playing you don't juke me out my shoes too oh no when I'm catch up to you I am tackling you Ray Lewis style and you're going to jail for the night sir isn't immediate boy stop because again it's not just the action you have you ever like

had to ask a question at a press conference and you are thinking about it and you're starting to get nervous about maybe you don't get nervous but I always am like okay my words come out of my mouth right and this is how I'm going to say it and this is what I'm going to do and then I'm like do I do it do I not do it do I do it my heart is racing you know yeah and and that is on and I'm supposed to be there if I'm in a game watching and I'm I'm I don't think he's sober but if I'm sober that is on a thousand that like should I do it when am I doing it do I jump now do I not jump am I juke and then you're just in it like oh I've made a disastrous decision like they're coming after me I'm probably

go to jail, I'm never going to a L.A. Clipper game again, ever into it because you know Steve Bomber has facial recognition and probably my DNA. Damn, I forgot that. Oh, so bad, bad, bad, like very much boy stop. Yeah, it's a definite boy stop. Speaking of

Boy Stop, the last segment of the day, Miss Rebecca, the star of our show. Let's get some boy stops up here. This is a guy who goes on the field who's not a part of the team and takes it one step further i've never seen anything like this here we go here we go check it out check it out hold on they thought it was one of their teammates oh my god bruh that's the way you oh my boy can score he did it he said yeah oh my goodness

that's the ultimate fan oh my god he slid that is not a fan he it's a fan he put on a shirt like theirs he scored the goal how do you do that then he runs around the goal they think it's their teammate right bro thought it was his teammate he celebrated at first he was like hold on who wait Joshua wait hold on who is he's got no jersey number on he's like is that 10 day Tony right bruh salute to this man bro this is the ultimate fan yes he probably got his neck snout later on that evening but that's the ultimate thrill my boy scored a goal for his favorite team man imagine bro can you imagine this

the Celtics are playing the game right now and then all of a sudden you see me pop up in an all green Celtics and Jason Taylor passed me the ball and I wet the jumper I'm talking about scraped draws oh bro you can lock me up and throw away the key bro just give me that footage

I'm good send this to my mama because Jason Taylor passed me an assist it's great draws so suits this fan man man also like again that is a whole new level

it's another level it's another level I don't even think you should tackle that guy I think you should say hey do you want to try out right because the composure required the precision required he has a lot of intangibles

the celebration required the slide on your knees speaking of fans going overboard so this is a baseball player number 29 right oh lord I don't know if you've seen seen this, but

apparently he's known for having a big backside, so then a fan shows up in this. Is this respectful or disrespectful? I mean... I'm going to save you. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Is it not a butt plug?

Oh, no. Yes, it is. It's a butt plug, but 100% a butt plug. You just killed Trista she's dead That to be the one Shireman of Dylan is

Friking wife But at the same time Yes, Miss Rebecca That is a butt plug But the big dumper I don't know if his nickname Comes from his butt being large You know what I'm saying?

I think he dumps home runs Over the left field while I think he's You know what I think that's more so where his nickname originates, I could be wrong. I haven't checked out the back side of my boy. So is this guy just mentally ill

that he puts a butt plug? Yes, there we are. Okay. You had to get that made. You had to get that t-shirt made. It has his number on it. Bray, you just want thousands on thousands of dollars. The t-shirt company has to be like,

what are we doing? You have to have a screen printing operation at your own crib if you're doing that because you cannot have that. And listen, Anytime you make t-shirts, you have to make them in bulk, usually. So how many of these damn t-shirts does he have? A thousand?

He's got a whole bunch of them flying out to his friends for Halloween. For sure. And you know he paid extra money, yeah, to be right behind him, right? Yeah, he had to spend money to that. This is the A-L-C-S. This ain't no, this ain't no just baseball game where you can just pull up. This is the champion. This is to go to the Siri right here behind home plate.

Bro, you should put that... Is that an invitation? Is that a t-shirt like a proposal? It could be. It could be. I don't know. Honestly, what is the meaning of this teacher? It's Grindr.

It's Grindr. Yes. It's Grindr. IRL. Yes, that's what it is. Thank you. If somebody pulls up on me with that, if somebody pulls up on me with that, listen, it's a wrap.

It's a wrap. You got to... All right. You honestly need to be blocked. I think my boy just not funny because he was trying to go for, he's the bit dumper, but guess what? It stops here tonight. And it's like, eh. Is that what you think it was?

No, I know. It's that. That's smart. The dump starts tonight with our butt plug, aka. Oh, so like the pooing stops with the butt. The poop stops tonight with the, yes. That's what he's going for. He thought he was clever.

Do other people get that? Am I just dumb? I didn't get it. Okay. I mean, I just think of a Vlad Guerrero Jr. jersey would have done the trick. Do you feel like? Oh, man. Oh, man.

On that note, man. Thank y'all so much for pulling up on us yet again, man. Trista, any last words? Miss Rebecca, we're sorry. We'll do better. We'll have a little bit more of a plan. I didn't even realize how messed up in the game we were and how we were putting you behind the eight ball.

I just thought you were the one who was bad and it's actually us that's bad. Yeah, and I like the second that apology to Ms. Rebecca. Sometimes, you know, you don't know how ugly something is until someone holds a mirror up to you. And you held that mirror up and I was like, ew, look at me. It stunk. It really did sting the nostrils, you know.

Ooh, we are bad Just like Sex Panther The smell But yeah, man Thank you as always To Miss Rebecca Donahue Follow her right now

Online Miss Rebecca At Rebecca Donahue Take off the miss Follow my sister At Trista Creek Everywhere Follow the kid

himself At Jujugati Everywhere And follow my boy To Distinguish Dylan At Dylan Hong How do you say

Your last name Dylan You got it. Good job. That's it. You feel me? Come on. Follow my boy, man, as well. Thank y'all for pulling up on us. Without y'all, who the hell are we? Catch us again. Next Tuesday, same bad time.

Same bad channel. Boom!