The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop 146: Kyrie Irving vs a Robot, Bulls Ruin the Cavs & Knicks Take the NBA Cup

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

JuJu Gotti and Trysta Krick break down one of the wildest Kyrie Irving viral moments yet — yes, the robot caught hands — before diving into a full slate of NBA chaos. The crew talks about the Chicago Bulls refusing to lose to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the New York Knicks winning the NBA Cup, and why this Knicks run feels very real. Plus, as always, the show mixes serious hoops analysis with laugh-out-loud viral videos, wild internet moments, and classic Alley Oop energy. If you love NBA conversations that don’t take themselves too seriously — but still know ball — this episode is for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When you're flying Emirates business class, enjoying a good night's rest in your live flat seat, you'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over. Fly Emirates. Fly better. This is why I love you too. This is what I saw on Dan's show today. This was everybody else. Does Mama wanted to work with this? Or does Mama want to work with this? Or does Mama want to work with this? We look like the Black Power We were activists at the Olympics The kids are in the M-I-Yeo

Slangin' Yeo To get my Mayo It don't look like it right now But we are actually in the same building In the same area code My sister is in the plush You feel me and I'm pretty sure people are drawing whatever the hell

they want to put behind me. Screenshot us in our comments of what creative thing besides private parts you can put behind me in this scenario. It's going to get probably nasty just like the fans be and salute to y'all. But yeah, let's get creative. Who can put the best stuff behind me this week? But neither here nor there.

How you doing this is? I'm phenomenal. Have you seen that woman that's on TikTok that, that does, she tries all the like TikTok creator cooking trends. And she's like, everybody's so creative. Everybody's so creative. Now you just put a turkey inside of a marshmallow and then you put it in the microwave

because that just sounds amazing. Have you seen her? I can't wait to take this to the next family reunion. I also want to remind the yawning is that we have a phenomenal, phenomenal cast here that it's hard to put into words sometimes. but our staff, Ms. Rebecca and Mr. Dillon has come up with, what is it called, a substack page for the kids, man. Come on, man.

If you got there, subscribe to the kids' subsstack. What's the substack, sis? Alleyoop show.com. Come on, man. You got to know who they want. Hoop. Who. Now who they want.

Jew, Jew, Jew. Who they want. T. Cric. I don't know. Yes, sir. man let's get right into it man the new york nix have attained a championship in god's green 2025 how do you feel about it i don't want to besmirch but i will say they were down pretty much the

whole game and wemby who looked like the best player on the planet just a few days ago we found out looked like there was something wrong with them juju and then i was like oh he's mourning his grandma she just passed away today and everybody deals with grief differently sometimes you play better and sometimes you go into shook shookish mode and clearly wemby was shooketh because he didn't look like himself he was playing less minutes and i don't think it was the injury so to that i say congratulations to the nicks yeah for capitalizing but i'm not giving you all the credit in the world like i would have if wemby was going berserk yeah how do you feel about them deciding not to hang the banner up in Madison Square Garden. To me, that's the right move. We can't hang in cut banners. That's like we're putting, like if Jalen Brunson wins Eastern Conference MVP, like in the Eastern Conference Finals, we're going to put that up as well.

No, we're not doing that. We're not taking these trophies and these banners and putting them next to real banners. And honestly, if you're the Milwaukee Bucks right now, if you're the L.A. Lakers right now, you need to take notes, okay? we're not going to be just accumulating meaningless accolades and putting them up to real accolades. What do you think? I disagree slightly because I think that there should be something.

Banner does take it to the extreme. And with the NICs, like the audacity of them when they got a Harry Stiles banner in their auditorium, sold out how many shows in a row for like a weekend, like seven shows. That's a banner in New York right now. like so okay banner police of new york oh we don't need the banner take that harry style by banner down then damn it but i do think that they should put at least like an insignia or a little logo on the court you feel me yeah by the uh by the logo just a little gold star or something that says okay cool

well this season the rest of the season that's a good idea that's a good idea like a little star with the year inside of it right like a star with a 25 And then you see, you see, like, next to the Knicks logo from the, until the end of time, on the corner or near it in the middle of the court, you have a star with the 25 logo on it. Yeah, or even if it's just for the rest of this year. So every pitcher snap, every LeBron last shot, all that, you're going to see on the court in season tournament champions, not here nor there. We're going to put something up there soon, but hey, you got to step across the championship sign when you step on the threshold of the MSG, the NFL. or even like a trophy in the middle of the court for the rest of the year or like a fake banner in the middle that says iST winners 2025 but there's a plaque of some some some another i do think

it's it's important though i i i go right when the whole world going on the jersey in season on the jersey would be nice too like a little patch on the jersey yeah something because it's not nothing like yes it's very new so it's the popular thing always to do is trash what's new you feel me but at the same time them boys getting extra half a ticket don't go back again 500 plus for winning that game so tell them rookies on new york that this don't mean that who doubled their salary in one day can we put some can we put some respect juju on our man tyler colic because this guy was on the trade block they're calling all these teams to just move them for nothing.

And other teams are like, yeah, no, I'm good, bro. I'm good. Like, first of all, Marquette Tyler Colick is that guy. He had such dimes, such the ability to put pressure on the rim, a nice little smooth jump shot. It was, to me, those type of players, it's only a matter of time. Like Colin Gillespie, like when he didn't work out right away, especially the white ones.

The white ones that come from these high pedigree programs, point guards, it takes them a minute, okay? But the IQ's there, like the shot is there, even with Jalen Brunson, right? It took a second. And so I think you don't need to like discard them right away. And now 14 points in the finals game and really meaningful points down the stretch that got them the dub. What you think? Yeah, I think he wanted it more.

You feel me? Well, he just wanted them more. He was like, look, man, I'm going after that loose ball. I'm getting in your drop screens as soon as you take the ball out. You feel me? Like, he was out there with more of a dog getting him than some of his teammates. Because he saw that chick. And boy saw that check.

Like, uh-uh, no, this ain't regular, bro. We're in Vegas, too. Speaking of Vegas, though, but speaking of that game, Mr. Rebecca, I know I'm putting you on the spot, but Floyd Money and Mayweather was courtside at this game. And you know, Mayweather's always. putting on you feel that that's his name his nickname is money mayweather so you got to know what you're getting into his his partner in them called the money team man you know what you're getting yourself into but he was sitting courtside at the game next to blue ivy and jZ

pulling out bank rolls out his bag unrubber band on and count them next to blue ivy or appealing off he giving he giving money to the lady in the back uh who is that the concession stand lady or whatever must be must be Bro, do you got to peel off this big brick just to give her money, bro? That's crazy. No, that's crazy. That's something that'll get you jacked. I'll tell you that.

You better come with your security. It was almost like he tried to hand it over to the girl two over for one over from Blue Ivy. And she didn't even literally, Juju, like being in the bad neighborhood. And it's not your first time in there. She was all straight ahead. Don't look left. Don't look right. In the periphery.

As soon as Floyd's next to you, you just probably Hove was like, hey, he's going to try some wild stuff right little sister player she's like y'all see you know what i see that little man you know what i had that for my eighth birthday you're being on court side she might have been amid him i don't know who the little sis here but she would definitely cool his hell to me yeah come on flor you're peeling out of bank rows in front of all those folks i know he ain't going to get no trouble for it because you know he's his security go crazy how much money is that stack if you guys had to guess specialist come on turn your camera on 20k 15 to 20k

look if dillon say it i know it's 20k bro all right yeah as the expert as as as some of his bundles of those in his closet right now but still pays for rent and glendale walter white over here but don't look if you know if you know what dylan live do not try them because you will meet the security at the line so play with dillan if you want to at the moat at the moat right moving I think it's only 300 bucks and he's got some chocolate bars in the middle That's the way I would do it

Look at him as Rebecca You mean like they put he like He cut out Right Money it's like the book That Lily is in the book It just holds a gun in the middle of it Exactly

Right He got 100 on each end It's $200 plus like 75 ones We're gonna get a memo From Floyd Mayweather Threatening to sue us for slander Given his middle name is money right he's like i spelled my name out with a billion dollars one day like come on get off my back

but moving on uh this this won't be talked about a lot because who talks about these teams but this game meant something special to me i circled this game on the calendar uh a couple of almost damn a couple months ago now we know the chicago bulls have not been the same since the The crossover. Right. Heard around the world. So last night was the rematch, the get back, and the Chicago Bulls hadn't won the game since Thanksgiving.

That's a sentence. They hadn't won a game since Thanksgiving. Before last night, when the Cleveland Cavaliers said, let's do it again. And the Bulls pulled out the dog. Now, I happened to think the entire time, and damn there, no, the Bulls are not losing that game. Out of all the games,

I know the Bulls are. ass but they ain't losing that game the game that's sitting them down the spiral they wasn't losing that game what you thought about that game since did you even care to tune in listen here's the thing dionre hunter was the one that sent him yeah into the death spiral right put them into the what do they call that they sent him into the like the other place or the there's like a name for it upside down up did they put him in the upside down you had fake snow coming down like it was the dolphin mall right there and

Josh Giddy never returned. He had all the Vecna's inside of him but the thing, the DeAndre Hunter though has just really not been the same since that moment either. It's almost like they've been inextricably linked in a bad way. Now they're saying DeAndre Hunter needs to

come off the bench. Do we have a highlight here? Did he have a good moment that maybe is a non sequitur? Seems like it is. Damn, bro. DeAnd What are these jerseys? Right. Ass-on-ass jerseys.

What are these jerseys? Mediocre dunk on. These are heat jerseys. Right. You're right, bray. Because I was like, man, why is you besmirching a DeAndre Hunter that one time I tried to get him props? Yeah. He's been bad.

The proof has been in the damn putting, the banana pudding. If this is the highlight of DeAndre Hunter having a monster jam over Jalen, I was like, I don't even remember this, Dunk. Bro, he don't remember this dunk. It was a regular, it was a regular ass dunk. Moving on. It was so regular. But yeah, bro, the boys got the dog, you feel me. The Cleveland Cavaliers, though, to kind of stay there, bro,

y'all boys need to get some together, man. Y'all might need to put a package together for my boy, Don, the Don, Donovan Mitchell, because, dare I say, y'all, this ain't looking good. You can't be losing to the boys, bro. I don't care. Last year, y'all was number one. I don't know if it's Jared Allen I don't know if it's your boy

DeAndre Hunter I don't know if it's DeJus or Darius Garland Somebody got to get shipped up out of Cleveland bro what you think Things all went down when they Left They traded George Nyang Bang Bang Nying

Traded Karris Levert And got rid of Ty Jerome Those three guys in the rotation Have been more meaningful than say a D'Andre Hunter, then say a Lonzo ball. These moves, although I understood them when they made them juju,

I just don't think it's really worked out, but more so, more so, you've got injuries abound and ones that I do not see happening, I do not see them getting fixed. Evan Mowgli, out for a minute. Jared Allen, out for a minute. Darius Garland, back, but still not really back.

Donovan Mitchell, we were applauding him for taking less shots, being less of a ball hog in a good way, and putting the team first. This is an offense that spreads the sugar around Juju. And now it's back to being the Utah Jazz Donovan Mitchell show again. And I'm going to tell you, I know how that story ends. It ends with the trade request. It ends with getting bounced out of the first round of the playoffs. And it ends with us, me, and unfortunately, Juju as well. be smirching you.

Damn. And that's that on that. Kyrie Irvin has made headlines yesterday. This is a real sentence. After getting into it with a robot. Did you see this? After viciously assaulting. There we go.

That's more likely. And sending said robot who was not even doing anything to provoke Kyrie. He sent him to the upside down. Absolutely. Roll it, Miss Rebecca. Look at him. The Dallas Maverick. Right. The Dallas Maverick.

Basically, the robot's showing out for the Mavericks. He's like, oh, look what I can do. Oh, hey, Kyrie, you're my favorite player. J5. Oh, no, J5 down. Bro, what in the hell is wrong with my dog, Kyrie, bro? What is he thinking, bro? He thought I could just push him and just get back up. just pop. Oh, that was so fun,

Kyrie. Oh, he's like, let me see what this robot could do. My apology, I thought I could push him a little harder. Oh, my God. It's good thing. It's not 2021 when Kyrie's image was the lowest that it's ever been. Kyrie's been on a heater. Oh, it would have been over. He would have been out

the league. Stephen A. Smith would have been on first take being like, my brother, Kyrie Irvin. It's time. We're assaulting robots. We can't besmirce the kid. Let's not besmirce the kid, Stephen ain't here, bro.

But you're right. My boy would have him have it. But come on, bro. This is how you know, Kyrie, know he messed up. Right. Because he's trying to do stuff that don't even make sense that will work, bro. You know good and well, you picking up that damn robot. I ain't going to bring him back to life.

He's trying to triage like he's part of the EMT crew. Like he's part of the tech. Look at he's like picking him up, like dusted him off. get up king get up king come on champ this came out of nowhere this robot's doing all kinds of cool stuff and kairie smoothly comes over looks him up and goes pap right whole time so you can tell the robot ain't want no smoke if you rewind the clip a little the robot actually looks scared when kairri's right right he's like he's like whoa sir oh no oh no oh no oh no he's taller than you are on TV felt bad for a robot before and I literally feel bad for this.

He went shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Run that back one more time. He went shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Like, oh, no, oh, no, something bad's about to happen. There we go. Danger, danger. Dang. Uh-oh, uh-oh, no.

Look, I don't feel bad for the robot. I'm contrary to that. You don't feel bad? Hell no, I feel bad for Kyrie. Because look, you think that robot's fend to forget? You think AI intelligence ain't fin Spread that around Like pluribus, every robot

On God's green earth Going to have this information So, Kyrie Welcome, Kyrie Hello, Kyrie I'm scared there You just scared me We got a segment here at the alleyup

That we like to call Boy Stop Miss Rebecca, what you got for us today? well the first thing I want to play because I thought it was just freaking hilarious is your video juju what I like about you know grandmas is they don't give an F they don't give an F about anything and I hope in another two years when I become this old oh my god come on you got to put more than two on it now you got to put leave four I that I am this woman. Let me just say. Here we go.

Look, Grandma walking across the best. She's shuffling. Why? She's shuffling. Right. It's like, nothing wrong with it. She's walking past- In the middle of the game, bro. Wait a minute.

Never stop. Listen. Mama got to get across the court. Listen. Br, grandma, I know she wrong, bro. Ain't no way in hell. Listen, I'm a joy waiting for her on the other side. She got to get to it.

Oh, my God. Grandma, I'm going to block the shot, man. Look at that. Hold on, pause it. Go back 10 seconds. Go back 10 seconds. All right. So pause it now.

So he's like the white kid had the layup that she obviously deterred. And he's like, the fuck is this. Sorry. What is this? What is she doing? Right. Imagine being that little kid. Bro, you just stole the ball from a little brother.

Like, oh, yeah. Cookies. This is my chance. Fast break. Finally, abuela. What in the hell? Oh, hell no. Time out, bro.

Tech. The thing is is, is she didn't eat. even like stutter step like the robot did. Like didn't even make, she just walked, didn't slow, up, she slowed down right there just to let the traffic pass. That's what I'm saying, bro. But then just kept on going. Bro, I'm going to grow my ass, bro.

Hell now, she knew what she were doing, bro. Ain't no way in hell. I know around right now you could have got to confuse. But once you've seen fault, you got to give us at Lisa. Oh, my bad, y'all. Put your hand up. Like, oh. No, she did.

That's on me. She did put a hand up. Yeah. No, it got to be more intentional than that fair catch. You got a fair catch that hand. You got to make the referee see it. It's on me. But salute the mom, grandma, salute.

Thank you for at least supporting the game of basketball. But at the end of the day, walking your ass across that court during the play, boy, stop. What's the next, Ms. Rebecca? All right, so this one, I think I want you to both take aside. I think I know where you stand. but I just want to say is this okay to do

with friends? Is this okay to do? Here we go. I'm saying that. I'm saying what? No, watch out. Watch out. No, no, no, watch out. Watch out. You just massed your shit. Watch out, dog. I'm saying that. I'm saying what?

No, watch out. Oh, yeah. This is I'm going to do. No, no, watch out, dog. The truth I moved that hands put on. Watch out, dog. Do you let your friends share the food off your plate? Go ahead, Tristan. All right, all right.

So here's the thing. I know what the right answer is. And I know what my answer is. Yeah. And the answer is I saw Juju with a fruit plate that he got for free from the hotel. And if it was anyone other than Juju, I would have opened up that cellophane, baby, and grab me some blackberries. grab me some lichy fruit but because it's juju

and I know how he has boundaries and he wasn't even going to eat it he told me specifically I'm not even going to eat this I knew that I we don't have I think he'd let no you know what juju juju brought shake shack through and I grabbed a fry

I grabbed a fry I think he was done with the fries but I grabbed the last fry how did you feel about that in the moment I share it with my sister I have no problem with that As long as it's my people Let's go

I have no problem with it literally Now when forks and spoons And straws get involved Mish me with it I don't want you I don't know what you was up to Yesterday afternoon With that brother or that sister

You can't have nothing from a spoon But at the same time If it's another spoon it's cool Yeah you can get your own spoon Once one dip in there though And once you want to go in your The soup coolers, over with it. So we couldn't share like a banana pudding.

I mean, let me go ahead and get mine first. You feel me? And then go ahead, go crazy. I don't do anything really, Juju. My mouth is clean. I can tell you. These curse words. It's just as clean as Ali mouth.

You know, Dahl's got the cleanest mouth ever. I looked over in Tristan. Look, they just say, her and I already got a good relationship. Her little dog. He goes, we're standing at the Ross or whatever, marshals, wherever we were getting some white elephant. And I'm like, oh, and he's all in my nose. And Juju, Juju goes, get a room.

He said, I don't care that you're hoeing. You got this dog over here. He's probably licking his red rocket. And you're letting his little mouth into your nose and mouth. That's probably the most Caucasian thing about me, honestly. I let my dog kiss me in the face. Moving on, Ms. Rebecca. What else you got for us?

That's a boy stop to me. Honestly, I think I guess that's really what we learned from this segment. We can't boy stop. So I wonder, like, should you fuck with weather that you don't come from, that weather that you don't understand. Okay, what's this about to be? He's like a little, you know, I would call him an ass. temperature meteorologist. Here we go.

Okay, okay. In my neighborhood, it's snowing in Canada. Southern California got some snow. And Penny odd, it's beautiful here. It's coming down. Okay. I'm an untrained meteorologist. Untrained?

Reporting on the snow. I mean, it's in the streets. Oh. Damn. Oh. On the snow. I mean, It's in the streets.

Damn. Damn. That damn, we need to cut that damn and make drops in the middle of the podcast. I agree. When I do something bad or Juju says something mean or whatever, it's like, damn. Damn. It's in the streets. Damn.

I was two seconds away from saying, Miss Rebecca, what the hell is this video? She knew what she was doing. I was thinking, and I'm like, this video is about. about to end. There's nothing here. I laughed out loud when I saw that I'm like, you got to be kidding me. It was amazing. Bro, that's funny as hell, bro.

Like, great age. It's in the streets. Damn. And you can fall down from it. Oh, my God. But you can see the CTE that he got instantly through the phone end. I don't know if you guys saw my photography.

Like sometimes I get my friends the video of me when we're hanging out. Like I don't make juju do this. But my friend, was riding his bike with me and trying to video me. And he was doing it with one hand while trying to get going started.

And he just, and I'm like, yeah, you know, the thing is, you know, Justin Bieber and he just, pow! And then there was like a laugh. Like you can hear me kind of chuckle at his misfortune. And then it's like, one one thousand, two a thousand. You okay?

But that is the thing, isn't it? Because falling is always funny. But if it's somebody you care about, you got to have an, are you okay in this? You have to. My bad. You're going to break up. Okay.

Yeah. Right. And before we get out of here, we got unrival season coming up, man. Finally upon us. WNBA got drama on drama. Ms. Alex just reported that the league is now open to a strike. They can strike if necessary now. So, I mean, a lot going on with a W.

But the Unrival League is in full effect on January. And you already know the kids going to be. pouring live on that you got to know if you don't know already and vinyl is my squad no matter what i don't give a damn about none of nothing i'm mistaken put my flat down i'm choosing the side i know we got page this year we got a lot of inside you feel me on breeze we got my bruce bruce we got my bro, in the league where Tasha Cloud and Tiffany Hayes, my favorite player ever, is literally on the same team with the miss. It's not enough, man.

That's my second favorite team, but unrolling with the vinyl, man. Like, bro, bit Erica Wilder, beat Courtney Williams, beat Ryan Howard, man, bit Ray Borell, bit B. Juleser, and guess who else? Deerica Hambick, come on, man. You already know what's going on. If you see me, this is what I'm about this year. We getting that chilt this year, too. We almost got it last year.

But hey, man, locking him. Who are your team, sis? I'm team Breeze. I'm Team, get the baddies. Tim, get the baddies. A bunch of girls that'll take your girl and your guy and get buckets in the meantime. If you don't know who's on that squad, just look it up.

And you can see, yeah, show, take your girl she'll take your girl she'll take your girl she'll take your guy and your girl and maybe turn your girl out take my down girl he'll stay well stay a hell away from my down girl I know that part not to hear nor there come on man vinyl I see y'all man y'all got to know ain't nothing going down this year without me supporting y'all man and speaking of support and nothing going down this show can't go down without the support of every single listener that's listening right now into the sound of my voice whoever and wherever you are, we thank you so much, bro.

Any of the last words before we get out of here, sis? Love juju, love Miami, love unrivaled, and most importantly, love Ms. Rebecca Dillon, and the fans without y'all. What the hell are we? You feel me? Lock in with us next Tuesday. Same bad time?

Same bad channel. Lock in. Go vinyl. La La La La La