The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 144: LeBron’s MONSTER Dunk Goes Viral: What His Emotion Reveals | OKC Unstoppable? | Travel Calls Disappear & Bulls’ No-Return Moment

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

Join Juju Gotti and Trysta Krick on The Alley Oop Basketball Show as they break down a HUGE night in the NBA. We start with LeBron James’ MONSTER dunk over Luke Kornet and the wild emotion he unleashed afterward, then dive into whether the OKC Thunder are officially unstoppable, why NBA refs are calling fewer and fewer travels, and the exact moment the Chicago Bulls hit the point of no return this season. If you love real hoops talk with humor, chaos, and actual insight, you’re home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I got a couple of beats for our theme song soon. And me and the kid, if you haven't heard, we're heading down to the MIA yo next week to be on the main. She know you dig it. And so I'm going to show you a couple of them example tracks I got, you feel me? Ooh, I love that. I love Miami.

It is just one of, I can't. I cannot wait to go down for the main show. I'm a savi-ece maniac. There's a restaurant called the mandolin. I think it's too expensive for how much I get paid, but I've been wanting to go there for years. And guess what? I'm going to make a resi.

No hezzy. We've got a white elephant party on Wednesday. Me and Juju are going to come with the Aleut Show.com promo so you guys can start subscribing to our substack. We're here. It's up. It's so peak. It's peak like LeBron has never left, Juju.

Oh, my God. Can we cut it to the tape? Come on, man, all the way up, man. You got to know. And speaking of up, up right now on iTunes by the kid right now featuring Jay Nights. Check it out whenever you can in your free time. But neither here nor there. LeBron James is still doing LeBron James things.

Now the Lakers were eliminated from the NBA Cup, the Emirates NBA Cup. And again, one more time I couldn't hear you. What did you say? The Emirates NBA Club, if he had me. They were eliminated by the Wembe List, San Antonio Spurs. F.U, Lakers, there's nothing I love more than Lakers just going down into the earth, besmirching their purple and gold names. Love it.

Yes, they got their behind Kate to Stephen, Stefan K. stepped up, Bigway, Fox, crossed up, Austin Reeves. A lot of questionable things happened during this game on the defensive side of the ball for the Lakers. But for one play and at least one play only, LeBron James turned back the clock yet again. Oops, I'm sorry, he stayed in the present yet again and don't know my guy.

Luke Cornett, the green cornet. Let's see it, Ms. Rebecca. Digitutes. Yo, man. I don't like it. Pause that. First of all, first of all, that was a nasty dunk.

Luke Cornett should have probably gotten out of the way. Second of all, that you didn't have to do Luke Cornett like that. You could have just gone up. That just shows that LeBron has a little extra oomph, put a little oomph in it, like Jagged Edge here, uh juju yeah and it goes to show you luke cornet is a legend he on lebrun radar like you just said lebron ain't got to do all this man but he saw luke down there oh no not the goat not the goat i'm trying to posturize the goat you feel and if you that to say it even more effusive than that if it was just an everyday dunk if it was just like a a regular monday through friday i'm just doing

this because I'm LeBron kind of dunk. He wouldn't have screamed in his face right after. He not only dunked on him, it was like the Lion King Roar, Juju. It had a little extra energy to it. Miss

Rebecca play the clip. Exactly, bro. There it is right there, bro. Look at my boy. Look how exciting it is to finally dunk on one of your heroes, Luke Cornet, man. Jackson, hey, but you can get casted right now. I don't know if you're trying to do some acting or whatever, bro,

but you look the part of a zombie from any zombie movie, but you look crazy as hell, man. If you photoshopped LeBron out, you would think that Jackson Hayes did the dunk. Right, right. Jackson Hayes up forward and you'd be like, damn, what Jackson Hayes do to Luke Cornet? Absolutely nothing.

He's just there to co-sign the LeBron James scream. To co-sign that, moms making pizza rows. You feel me? Roll the video, Mr. Rebecca. Look at him, man. How long is it? Stall him out, LeBron. Stall him out.

It's disrespectful. It's up if I'm Luke Cornett. All right, pause. It's up if I'm Luke Cornett, bro. Don't scream at me like this. First of all, I feel special that I got. that treatment from LeBron because clearly he doesn't do that for anybody. But Luke Cornet is trying so hard to pretend like he doesn't see LeBron.

He doesn't want to make eye contact because I think he's a little concerned and doesn't want to find out what happens if he does make eye contact with him. It's almost like when you champion Luke Cornynett. Look, I didn't say anything. I'm just since we're talking about the champion, I mean, it's behold it. But that's like when you go into it. It's like Luke Cornett is like when you go into a neighborhood that you're not like really quite familiar with as a white person. You just don't like listen, you just don't make eye contact.

You just everything is straight in front of you. Don't look at anybody on the stoop. Don't look and see what's going on. If you pass them, just give them a quick head nod like I'm supposed to be here. But if you've never been in that neighborhood before, you just do it at Luke Cornett. did with the LeBron James scream. Br, I can't say, I can't put that no better than that, bro. That's exactly it, bro.

My boy's trying to, he's just trying to get to the car, man. I don't know what's all playing. I don't know what this dice mean. I'm just trying to get to the career. Don't pat your pockets. Don't look at your phone now. You look distracted. Phone in the pocket, head straight,

zipped up. We're going forward. We're moving this way. No head movement. direction. Don't look like you're curious. And don't unlock your car until you get right up on it. Like I'm talking about hitting the door at the same time. Pee-be-be, no doubt. You definitely don't want to, what the f is you looking at? You got a problem? You got no

problem. Nope, no. I wasn't looking at anything. Nope. You know the videos when they be like, this is how you get out of this in the car for robber. And then the seats go back too slow and they just end up in heaven that's luke cornet what are you guys so i'm hopeful yes i am hopeful for today luke cornet in the sky no doubt that entire dunk scream is that faith evans song right right bro speaking of faith devon songs bro i'll be missing who they beat yesterday whoever the oklahoma city played the sun the finis son man i will be missing you brad because It was a fifth or some points

It was not interesting Most interesting time of that game It's when the suns cut it to like 12 I was like ooh But Oklahoma City Thunder, bro The way they're operating right now The way She ain't got to play no fourth quarter

If he really just don't want to Are these I mean I know I came on here last week And said Big Whop Do it in the playoffs Big Boop Whoop de-doo They win it out of these games.

So they lost one game. Whoop-de-doo is what I said last week. But man, this is looking quite impressive, sis. What should you think about these boys? Will they ever lose again? That's kind of the question that I have, and they're doing it with ease. The thing that makes it so hard to bet on Oklahoma City or against them is they could legitimately win by this amount against almost anyone, just if they decide.

And they were in a close one, a little squeak went against the Phoenix Suns a few weeks ago, and they were 15-point favorites again, 15 and a half point favorites again. And I was like, well, you can't call it if they play with their food, which they can do and they sometimes do, and they're within their right to do as they only have one loss. All that matters is they're getting the dub,

and they've already proved it. But if they decide, no, no, we're going to make a statement, we're going to make you an example of what we can do. When we decide to take over, then you're hopeless. Do you remember, do you? I was thinking about how far the Oklahoma City Thunder have come. Okay. December 21, so 10 days from now.

Uh-huh. But in 2021. Yeah. December 2nd, no, actually December 2nd, excuse me, December 2nd, 2021. Mm-hmm. The Thunder had the largest loss in NBA history. seven they lost by 73 points to the Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies were on the come up okay C look lost

Shea wasn't close to the superpower he was now and to that I say wow look how fast stuff has changed so now it made sense bro I were wondering bro why do the thunder kick the Grizzlies ass so hard every time they play them it feels like they only like bray they beat them by 60 50 in the playoffs last year and John Moran talking about

so man if I would have been playing I was out there boy don't get joke over the day from the past so they play the clippers wolves grizzlies I don't know when it doesn't really matter

actually who they play where I just say that's a nail for that team that's now I mean I'm like waiting for them to maybe play the nuggets I know who they don't want to play no more it's the boys who they scared of for real. Your guys.

Exactly. Come on now. Let's put some respect on their name. They could have been, they could have beat them twice. That's what they could have. Again, but hey, not neither here nor there. Moving on.

I am sick and tired in this soft-ass NBA, the South Fass 2025, whatever we want to call it. Now, also, we get to take this extra pro step, pro-hop, Duke, Gather, step whatever you want to call it take out of my damn life bro well let's see this let's see my boy grason allen this thought let's see what he was up to during this play you have anthony edwards you're almost in the game look there one two three oh my god come on man

hold i'm going to need to see it again you have anthony edwards you're almost in the game 21 for Edwards Race and out Man, man, come on, bro I don't give a day And my problem is Ain't nobody even bad at eye The Timberwolves

They ain't even be like, oh, the trouble They just let this stuff go down Bro, what the hell has happened to America, bro, and liberty And liberty As soon as you complete that last step on the step back Yeah

There's no more movement That's it. You've already done an illegal move. That's an illegal move that we've decided collectively is nasty. Nasty. So we want to see it.

So I'm seeing I'm seeing chit-chat right on Iowa last night step back, side step travel. And it's like, that's nasty. Okay, we'll let it slide. That's now a new rule we allow. You cannot now

then take another step for a floater. That's it. Like, that's it. Your feet need to be in glue. Once you do the step back, you're in glue. We should go. I think we should tell Ms. Rebecca, pack up the winter bagel. Let's hit the winter meetings, brother.

And stand outside, brother. That's a travel. No more I approached up. Let pick it is. We should get the big, like, white anti- iPads. You know, the ones that they take to, like, the Capitol and they take photos on? And we should just show a video of illegal travels that we think need to be banned from the NBA. And then we should have a clipboard.

You can have the iPad, all have the clipboard, and we'll take signatures to send in to Adam Silver. We vote. We've all collectively decided you guys need to vote on this. And while we're doing that, Ms. Rebecca and Dylan can throw paint on their wools and their fleeces, their quarters of them. Take that, you feel me?

Come on, man. But moving on now, I got to go back to the pace. Right, right, right. Right, right, right. I was a little bit beside myself. But moving on, I got to go back to the past, man. Josh Giddy, ankle breaker. I know it's from the past, and I wanted to bring it back up again today.

Mr. Becca, please wrote this beautiful beam footage from the past. Where were you, you know? Paya! Okay. Okay. Now, I bought this up just to say. this that moment right there did that break the bulls season was broken bro the bulls had only lost two games at that point they were like nine and two or something they went they are now three

and twelve since that moment happened wow come on bro i want to ask my sister did dandre hunter break the bulls i think the bulls to be honest were broken, we just didn't know for sure that they were broken. How do we know that? Because every year they're a 500 teen, that's just what they are. You can kind of just count on it, 40 wins, 42 wins, 39 wins. Doesn't matter if they get the majority in the beginning of the season like they did this year or the majority in the end of the season like they did last year.

We already know what time it is. Does the Josh Giddy injury, does it add some hilarity to their misfortune? Yes. Do I like to see my brothers and sisters look as uncoordinated as he did when he broke his own damn ankles playing defense? No, it hurts me for us and like to remain at least, I don't know, respectable in terms of like playing defense against people. Like DeAndre Hunter is not even that good, to be honest. I know you're going to cross the line. Damn it.

Fire yards. If it was Kyrie or KD or an elite scorer with a bag as deep as Mary Poppins, then you could say okay, Josh Giddy, we're going to let this one slide. We'll let it slide further than you just did on the court right there.

Yeah. But DeAndre Hunter? Come on, man. He needs jiffy oil in his tips and knees in order for him to get busy. I think he gets literally tune-ups the day of games. Tun-ups. The Jeffie oil, tune-up.

Bruh, how does the besmircher? I bought this up for Josh Gide and the Bulls. We found a way. Hold your horses, DeAndre Hunter. We're going to find a way to besmirch you. Look at us, sipping the damn tea. That's the biggest cup of tea. I like DeAndre Hunter just fine.

never mind the fact that a lot of people were hyping him out of Virginia and he hasn't really panned out and he is only a defensive guy but that will remain on DeAndre Hunter's highlight tape is the moment that he broke the bulls moving on to a segment

we like to call boy stop man Ms. Rebecca, what do you have for us this week? So what I got for you guys today is a little, it's a tradition I found. It's a small school, Taylor University, and this is what they do. The entire school dresses up in costumes, and they stay dead silent, dead silent until the 10th point is scored. And then I'm going to let you see what happens. And then I'll come back for more.

Here we go. That's hard. direction for Taylor. Into the hands of gold. Back underneath. Oh, my God. Oh, my goodness. This is, bro, I love this.

This looks amazing. Wait, so, pause it. So they all are in colors and blocks, and they all rush to the court, like almost like a spilling of liquid out onto the floor where you see all these different rainbows converge, I'm kind of shook it. And then at the end, they all sing silent night together.

And they build in a break for this to happen, for them to flood the thing. Because that team got swallowed up. Both those teams got swallowed up in that. You saw that. They did. That's an injury risk. I want to say that right now.

After this is over, I just want us to clip Trista explaining what's happening. She said the colors are mixing in with the centrifugal force. Like, bro, I put that in my veins directly. But yeah, I love this tradition, bro. As long as everybody be safe because it's a doozy, that first step sometimes. And you trip on that first step, you got a thousand shoe prints up your ass. So be careful.

What they need actually is like a trap door right underneath the rim on both sides. And then they go down and then everybody else comes out. so they don't kill them. That's a legit, what, 5,000 people all rushing the court and you got 10 players. The problem with that trapdoor theory is if you did that, you know you're going to lose a couple guys from the band.

You know, like the guy with the tube is going in there. Kill the nerds. You know what I mean? Like, it's a law of attrition, Mr. Rebecca. You're going to lose a couple of nerds every year in the silent night. You build it in. You build the band a little more girthy. and it's like Darwinism, you know, like only the strong survive.

There's a weight requirement for the band. I like that. I like that a lot. It's the other team, though. That's the problem. That's the potential problem because hopefully everybody on the other team having a great week, you know, just figured out you failed two classes and it's your last game because it's before Christmas and you swing on this little, who is this,

Joseph in the manger right here, Joseph might get clinked up. who knows stay safe so it's it's boy go Taylor boy go Taylor boy go as long as you can keep your balance

yep if you trip boy stop boy run if you trip and boy run thank y'all again man for tuning in to the alley oh another great episode

thank you as always to miss Rebecca Donahue if you're nasty I think it's Becky if you nasty oh is it Becky if you're nasty or is it Becca if you're nasty

nasty. The Bexie. There's some Becky in there, but there's never Becca. Never Becca. Only Becky. You did? I like it. Or Rebecca. Don't give up with the Rebecca. We like it. We like it. It confuses people. Confuses people.

Because Becky is a very white woman's name. It's like a Karen. It's not good. Plas got a couple of songs shouting nose out to Becky's. But that's not the head or there. So does Beyonce. Becky was a good hair. It's not good. Damn. Damn. Right.

Right. Somebody out there. Please make a positive Becky song. Matter of fact, let's get on it. We're going to make a positive Becky song for the year 226 around here. And also thank you to our brother, the distinguished, Dylan. You got to know it, man. And thank you guys once again for tuning in without y'all. Who the hell is we? You feel me. Same bad time. We'll be back. Next time you see us, we'll be on our way. We'll be the day before we leave for Miami. So we'll be getting our, I'll be putting on some. Self-tanner to try to get ready. Juju won't, but we'll be excited. Where is it, Juju? When is it? Same bat time. Same bat channel.

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