The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - McDaniels vs Jokic FIGHT After 30-Point Blowout + NBA Gets HEATED | Alley Oop 179

Episode Date: April 28, 2026

The NBA is getting SPICY and Juju & Trysta are breaking it all down on Alley Oop. From the wild McDaniels vs Jokic moment after a 30-point Wolves blowout (was that layup disrespect or just basketball?) to the Deni Avdija vs Stephon Castle shove that had tempers flaring, this episode is PACKED with chaos. They also dive into: The Houston Rockets and what’s going wrong Lu Dort’s physical play — is he crossing the line? Are the Blazers officially DONE? Scoot Henderson’s rough performance and what it means The growing tension across the league late in the season Athletes dating celebrities — distraction or part of the game? The Knicks hitting Magic City wings (yes, really) Celtics vs 76ers and what it tells us about the East This is peak late-season NBA energy — chippy, emotional, and unpredictable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You might not know this about my sister. She's going to keep 13 chains on no matter what. Actually, I think the only reason Juju ever met me is he was like, God, is that 75 chains on her? I actually asked Cameron, he had a big ass chain on the other day. Like, your neck doesn't hurt with these chains? He goes, nah, Tris, I've been doing this. Hey, yo.

Buyaka, booyaka. Welcome back to the alley. I am the kid, Jujugati. Join, as always, by my sister, Trista Crick. How you doing, sis? I'm good. I got these nude glasses, Juju. What do you think of them?

Oh, shit. I like them. I like them. Yeah, I like them. They might need to get them in every color they got because I can see. Once you get that frame that fit the face, it's only up from there. That's why you see me with these guys so frequently. My head so big.

These are the ones that fit the best. You did? I know when they come out on me, they go out like this on either side of my head. And they make it hard. But I still like them. It makes it hard. It make you like, you know what, bit money. Let's get straight into it, man.

I don't want to start with the most hurtful topic. So I'm going to start with a softball, man. Lakers versus Rockets, man. Rockets, they got them one finally. Without KD and without a lot of. confidence from anybody in the world, do the Rockets have any shot in hell to come back? Yo, it could be two, too. If Jabari Smith wouldn't just be what KD said he was, then they would have won that game.

You're up six. You're up six with 16 seconds left. Yeah. What the hell? Right. What the hell is Burton? Like, what though? Brun, I was like, not even, I ain't going to tell you what I was like because I said too many

Cutsberg. Moving forward, though, I don't think I've ever had this feeling. If the Rockets come back and win this series, I'm going to be mad as hell because I don't want to watch them no more. I don't care if they come back, if they win the next three games by 60 points each. I don't want to watch them. I'm through with them. I'm done. After I saw Shangun's antics, after I saw Jabari Smith, like you said, throw that game away and they crashed into each other like a cartoon on the bronze shot, I'm straight on them, bro. Salute to Eme, salute to Amin Thompson, bro.

You know, y'all are my dogs. But at the same time, I'm done. I don't want to watch you play no more, no more dribbles. No more dribbles. Three teams were not really fuck with. Toronto, Cleveland, Houston. You did?

That's the list. And then a level below, but very similar, Orlando and Detroit. Like, you guys are on the list as well. We're still enjoying it just for the trolling. of the Detroit Pistons because you guys already know what time it is in terms of me

liking to be right and rooting for my rightness but you guys are just right there on the cusp of ugly, disgusting, horrific vomit in my mouth basketball. Yes, sir, man. Speaking of vomiting in my mouth basketball, the Phoenix Suns,

pack them up, you dig. Even though Lou Doort, you dirty, mother truck. Come on, Lou Dort, you keep her and our superstars, bro, with the BS, bro. And Yonkers hits the deck. He doesn't want it. Not to hear nor there. At the same time, the suns get well soon.

Matter of fact, real quick on the suns. Do you think Devin Booker is out of there? Because I think it's about that time for my boy in Phoenix. I was thinking about this. Because I was concocting some takes, some general basketball takes. I don't think celebrities. I don't think athletes should date celebrities. Tell me more.

Tell me more. Let's look at all of the athletes currently dating or formally dating celebrities. Clay Thompson, DeKline. Yeah. Brandon Ingram with Glorilla. I think he hasn't hit his shot in this entire three, four game series. I don't know. He had a couple of shots Sunday.

He's like three for a hundred. It was a good three though, bro. It was a good three. It was a good three. You've got Devin Booker with the Kardashian. I don't know what time he's been on. Yeah, that's zero timing. You know, and Donovan Mitchell had a stinker, Coco Jones.

Yeah, brother. Yeah, that was bad. And it don't help their reputation either that game went that way for James Harton and Don Jones. Salute the Shee, though, because remember we all got on him for getting chumped off by DeJonte Murray early in the season. We got to give my boy some credit, man, forcing that eight-second violence. In the crunch time. Oh, you did? Wendell Carter and Jalen Duren, Angel Reese, also declining.

Nah, but at the same time. I have a six-person sample in the league of 450 with not sleeping with or dating a lot of celebrities. And I just think if you're a professional athlete, you should go normie. Yeah, you should go normie on them, folks. Well, I think, well, what about Al Perrin Shangone? I mean, is he dating somebody famous because it feels like it, because his ass be stanking up the damn joint. Stinking. And we love to see it. Somebody asked me, if you were a sideline reporter, what would be the first thing you asked,

Alperin Shangoon, if you were unrestrained? And I would say, did you apologize for calling that ref a bitch because she hexed you? That's a hex. She got the voodoo doll out. And you've been voodooed. Consider yourself voodoo, my boy. Consider yourself doodooed. Well, speaking of doodoo, I hate the dude. this. Oh, are you doing this?

Are we doing this right now? Scoot Henderson. Are we doing this right now? This is what we're doing right now? The Spurs amount of the epic comeback against your guys. As a matter of fact, I'm going to let you set it up because I don't want to offend you. I don't want to trigger you by something, saying something wrong. No, go ahead.

Go ahead. Do it. It's okay. Do it. Just get it out of the way. Following and, and I'm trying to say this the most polite way possible. an ass performance in the second half. The second half didn't even,

who was that in the Blazers' bodies in the second half? That wasn't the Blazers. That was the Monstars. Remember they took away the talent from Charles Barkley? That's what happened to the Blazers at halftime. The boys was up at the half. I'm talking about as soon as the third quarter came on. High, built, high, built, high, built.

No offense. If you're up 20 If you ever reach almost 20 I think you should be able to eliminate half time from that game You know what As a Celtics fan deal What was that?

I was in the building for that Oh my God, bro I was on the plane Friday Coming back from Miami for game three Yeah, so we were up 14 and then Dylan Harper put on an absolute light show. And I thought that they more won that than we lost that. I mean, we definitely lost that.

But Scoot Henderson Tech in game three really turned things around. I thought the Deerrin elbow hit to Denny's tooth. He lost a tooth. And somehow Danny got called for the foul. I thought that was really where things turned around. But game four, we're up 18. Yeah. 17, up 17.

At 19 at one point. Yeah. And then you just let them come out and shoot four consecutive threes in a, like step into them too. Like just, hey, just have them. You know what I mean? You want to get your rhythm back? We'll just let you. You know?

It was champagne, a fox, castle. Time out, coach. Time out. What are we doing? Brough, I wonder what to y'all. I go split her half time speech was, bro. It hadn't been like doing great. Just keep it up.

Just keep doing what you're doing. Right. He probably went back to, hey, boy, kick an ass, man. I don't even say nothing, y'all. That's a done deal, right? Let's go kick ass.

Do we even need to come out for the second half? No, he said in the pregame presser, we got way too comfortable and thought we had the game of 15. So if we have it again, we won't do that. And that's what exactly you did. I'm concerned about Tiago Splitter as a coach. The rotations made me very uncomfy.

Donovan Klingen's not a great matchup for anybody in this series whatsoever. He really should be benched. Rob Williams has been kind of the only saving grace. I thought Denny played a lot more aggressive. I thought Denny honestly got fouled a lot and really didn't. Even though he went to the free throw in a bunch of the first quarter, I thought he got fouled a lot more than they called it. I thought in general it was just very physical.

Drew, you can't, it can't just be Drew. Okay, he's like fucking 40. I mean, he can't get it done, but it can't be just Drew, bro. It's like the problem was, the problem was, bro, Scoot Henderson, my boy. Like, you remember the other day they asked school after the game? When did you know? You had it.

Right, you had it. I wish somebody would have asked his ass yesterday. When did you know? you didn't have it. Yo, Scoot, when did you know you didn't have it tonight? Sincerely asked that question. When I woke up. You know what, that's a great question.

If I see them, if we come back for game six, which we won't, I'll ask them. Which we won't. It's over. The series is over. You know what was nuts was like Wemby in the first half was breaking everything? I was like, oh, we got a bad Wemby game. We don't just have a, we don't just have Wemby out. We actually have minutes where Wembe is a negative.

This is tremendous. We're missing shots. We're getting out in transition. We're hitting threes. The crowd's going, ah, a crowd. Yes. And I tell you what, I'm sitting in there in the media section. All I can do was a little yes. Because I was concerned up, up 17, up 18. I'm concerned, Juju. I don't think it's enough. I don't think 30's enough. I don't think 40's enough. And then win me in the second half. Block. When they alley upped them and he reversed dunked, I literally went to the parking lot. She said she don't think 40 was enough. Like, damn. Literally, when you let him shoot like four consecutive open threes and everything was wet, it was like that side of the court, everything was wet and that side of the court, everything like the rim was bent or something. Do you see how Stefan, you know what I mean, went at Denny at the end too.

This is how you know the game was in hand. Stefan Castle, bro, why did you do Denny like this, bro? He scored on him and won. Then put the ball in my boy chest. Disrespectful. Fow. Put the ball right in that boy's chest. And that was a weak push, Danny.

Come on, bro. And then... Don't give him a hard time. His calf's messed up. He didn't have enough force off that right leg. And his tooth chipped, bro. So, yeah. Get what...

I mean, it's over for the Blazers. I have no faith in him coming back. If I could, I at least I wouldn't want to watch it. When we were up, though, did you see the potential? I saw it, bro. I had some texts I was about to send you I was like bro

remember we said even with or without Wimby that first half was looking good but we could be up 3-1 right now you're supposed to be you was up a dub

in this last game and he was up what 15 the game before that yeah no it's tough it's tough you can't in the playoffs you cannot let lead

like leads disappear I think that's I gotta make a note because that's a good point I think when leads disappearing well it's gonna take

a note while during doing the show, bro. We keep it real here at the alleyhood. When you let a lead disappear like that, that steals your soul. I honestly think it takes a piece of your confidence every time that happens. And it takes like six months to get it back. This was just a disgusting display of basketball in the second half, both games for the Blazers. And both at the crib. Both at the crib.

In the motor, man. No t-shirts, nothing. Just scrape. belt the ass second halfs. But speaking of belt the ass and taking souls, my boy Jada McDaniels, man. I ain't never seen somebody just take the soul from another team like my boy has done this week, bro.

The Timberwolves whooping feet, like them boy going crazy on the nuggets. Like every single thing that Jada McDaniels said has happened come to pass. Ayo Don Sumo, big 43 points off. the bench off 13 or 17, man. That's an efficient ass night. Right. But the sad thing about it, he going to need him because Dante went down. Season ending Achilles injury.

And Ant Man went down out for at least multiple weeks. This is the playoffs. It's games every couple days. My boy, already out weeks. Two weeks. Juju is the conference final. Like now, they up 3-1. Do you have any faith in the Timberwolves?

Because this is going to be one of the toughest close-out games I feel like in the NBA right now. It's three ones everywhere right now. But this one feel a little different because they down, Ant Man and Dante, even though, hey, yo, bro, great game. But you're going to need that same game again. You're going to have to do that once more or something. And then on top of that, what's my boy name? Kyle Anderson's of the world, the ghost of Mike Connolly's of the world.

Hey, it's the big minutes. Bones, big minutes. But you have to replicate that not only if you get this win. Next series too, bro. So do you got faith in them boys moving forward? I don't. But I do think they close this series out. I don't know that they close it out in Denver.

Let's just get it back at the crib. Yeah. Yeah, I just think, Juju, those are sustaining injuries that make it really, really tough. And now you've got to end up playing literally the number one defense in the NBA in the Spurs. That's a tough, tough matchup. As somebody who has watched them up close, put Bell to ass,

I mean, you're talking about tremendous players up and down that roster, and you're under manned. Like, You're going to have Mike Conley matching up against who? Who is Mike Conley going to be playing up? You're going to what? Bones Highland and Ae O. DeSumu in your back court against Steph Castle, Dearon Fox, Dylan Harper, Champany.

You got Caldino Johnson. Yeah. Caldino, yeah. Caldino, Devin Vassell, Wembe Yama, the green, black and white, black and silver, cornet. Come on now. feel me? Magic City. Luke. That's what they're calling them these days. Yo, in the building, really quick, aside in the building,

everybody said, let's do it for the strippers. Portland is the home of the strippers. And Luke Cornett said, I rebuke you. That's what I rebuke to hell out, them folks, man. You see, though, bro, with Dante Defenzo, that's the fourth number zero to tear of Achilles, right?

Achilles is popping off number zeros. I'm changing my number from number zero right now. I'm so sorry. This should be like the 13th floor on an elevator. Right. Jason Tatum, Halliburton, Dame Liller,

now my boy Dante. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, I'm gonna go ahead and chain my number about,

um, some. I'm gonna get about some away from that. But at the same... I don't think 23's ever torn their Achilles. Mm, I just knock on everything because I don't know what number of LeBron is,

but I don't need that. Not from this show. Not from this show. But at the same time, Timberwolves did get that double you, though. You're proving my boy right. And, bro, it was devised, but so fire in there the other night. You couldn't help but feel it from the TV. And whenever Mike Connolly passed Jada McDaniel to ball, he knew for a fat at the end of the game.

But two, three seconds to go. He knew what he was doing, bro. Jada McDaniels went ahead and said, F it, bro. I'm scoring. And that's how I feel, too. You got a problem when we scoring this basket at the end of the game and we're up 30. Stop me then.

Come play some defense. Miss Rebecca, you have a question? Yeah, I just, I was wondering why Jokic went after him. He went after him because he's running up the score. But also, like, what is he supposed to do? Is he supposed to just throw the ball off that, like you're an athlete? Like, you've got to finish the play. Like, is he supposed to toss it out of bounds?

It makes zero sense. I think what they wanted him to do was you just hold on to the ball and do nothing. No, nobody's going to do like that. You look stupid, I think. Like you just got to fix the play. Tell them, Ms. Rebecca, tell them. Tell them. You look stupid.

You look stupid. Like holding the ball. Let me save your dignity. You're up 30 points. Your dignity is already gone. You lost. You lost by a lot. And you did it when we're under man.

One guy, hyper extension. One guy torn Achilles. We got a guy named A. treating you like a. Right. Where was your dignity? He looked like a baby man. He looked like Joker looked like a baby man.

Right. Where was your antennas and your dignity when Ayo was at 30. And then when he was at 34 and then when he was at 38, you ain't had no dignity in. So I don't want to help out no dignity now that we're going to wax your ass and I'm from a dunk at the end of the game. That's what we called it. Jada McDaniels has had one hell of a run, Juju. Exactly. And then he ran down there to not even have smoke.

Look at my boy. You did? What you think he about to do? I'm scorn. I don't give a damn about nothing. I don't respect y'all. Ran down up. Boy, you would have thought the joker was about to swang on my boy.

Push him. Do anything. He ran up just to play and get what my boy and say. I only yoke your ass. You hear me? Ran down there just to get yoked up by my boy. And smiled at all that crazy eyes shit you were doing with us. okay, see, nah, it don't work over here.

We don't believe it. And guess what? At the alley, I'm proclaiming this right now. I no longer believe it, bro. Y'all can joker, his brothers and all that's to death if y'all want to. I don't believe it no more, bro. I'm not, look at this. Yoke that man up.

I'm not saying get suspended, but I'm just saying do more about you, do anything other than run up on them, either let it go or do something. Don't run up on me just to be in my face. They could get suspended. I mean, Giochor could get suspended for that. Like, I don't think he will,

but he could easily have been suspended for that. If anybody gets suspended, it should be him because none of this wouldn't have happened. If you ain't run down here like he was Ron O'Neill, look at him, goof ass. It's like it was a gentle layup. It's not like he did a windmill,

like slam dunk and was hanging on the rim. You know what I mean? You just call it a windmill? What's it call? Windmill. Yeah. Yeah. Now it is.

No, I just can't speak English. No, it's calling Winmeal. Just call it Winmill. I just can't speak English. You know what that was, Juju? That was Ms. Rebecca in Maine hearing Juju in Georgia say win mell. Windmill.

No, I just can't speak. That's how Juju Kai says it. Windmill. Mm-hmm. Windmill. I say like Dominique Wilkins say it. Winmill. But yeah, man, Joker, you're going to need more people, bro.

I don't believe that. of shit no more out the window. You and your little brothers, bro. Yeah, you get locked up. Cool. Everybody get locked up for B at some time. At the same time, though, timber was in trouble, man.

Because if it's any team I wouldn't want to be in this exact scenario, it's the Denver Nuggets, man. So hopefully I can close it out, man. Moving on, bro. Did you see my boy Payne Pritcher from the, or what is it, the Oregon University? Oh, you? University of Oregon.

University of Oregon, man. Another one, bro. If the clock running down, give Pay and Pritcher to ball, no matter what, man. Pritcher, do the triple dance. Triple top.

I trust him more than I trust the Brains in a late game scenario. I ain't going to hold you. Am I blaspheming? The only one that I trust more half quarter back is Steph.

Yeah, that's it. That's tough. That's tough to be stuff. That's it. Yeah. But. The Philadelphia 76ers, they got Joelle and B back. You know what I mean?

They had everybody scared before the game, pregame. Uh-oh, it's a bird. It's a plane. It's Embed. Spanked that, baby. It came back just to get spanked. What you think about him coming back? Did he come back too early?

He shot 20 times. He had a good showing, but that belt was there nevertheless. Came back. It felt like Juju a little too early and a little too late. I like that. You know what I mean? It's too late for you. I'm sorry.

Like when you see the, you know, we got good Celtics and bad Celtics. And what you got today was Elite Celtics. You got Celtics shooting 45% from three. Shot 25 of them joints. 24 out of 53. You're talking about a team that out rebounded you 51 to 30. Yeah. You're talking about a team that, you know, gave you 11 points off of turnover.

The thing that they really crushed him at, Juju, was hitting those threes. And that's what truly the Celtics do, right? Like, Sixers, nine for 30 from three. Celtics 24 out of 53. I'm going to shoot. Get to shoot 53s, Juju. Sometimes they hit 10 of them. Sometimes they hit 30 of them.

Bro, watching these boys play, man. I love them so much, man. But every time they shoot, they be going in now. They be shooting. I'd be like, no, no, no, no, no, whatever. No, no, no, no, I guess. Okay, that's how I watch my Celtics. There was a graphic that I saw, Juju, that I think is applicable to being a Celtics fan as well.

This one was about. Hold on, go back. No, no, no, no, no, no. What was that applicable? Applicable. Come on, now. Bitwors. My sister used to be on bit words.

It applies here. It applies here. And the graphic is a little blip that says, says, oh my God, my favorite team plays today. And then a long blip says, fuck my life. And then, like, or, you know, whatever, something also bad. And then the rest is, oh, yeah, a little tiny blip. Oh, yay, we won.

Exactly, bro. That's how it beat, I especially watching these boys, man. I'd be about to have a heart attack. But they're getting it done. It terrifies me to see what's coming around that mountain when she comes. If the Knicks can beat the Hawks, because I do still think that the Knicks have what it takes to to undermine these selfies. You did, but neither here nor there.

Also salute to the Knicks. They got the job done. We made fun of them for putting down them two games in the consecutive taro, but they got it done. And after the game, they got them some Magic City Wings, man. Salute to them. Yeah, they did. And that's going to do.

You know, I think Magic Cities should sell their lemon pepper wings of pre-made. And then you can put them in the oven or in the fryer. I think I would buy like 100 Magic City Wings. You did? Come on now. Like, I would too. And apparently the New York community is right.

They got them on Uber East where I stay. So you can get you some majesty of kitchen at any time. Maybe I just put some people on from Atlanta. Yes, you can order some wings to your door. Absolutely. I salute the lemon pepper little Williams, my boy. But that's going to do it for another episode. the alley oop. Thanks as always to my brother, the distinguished Dylan. And as always to our sister,

Miss Rebecca Donahue, who has never been in any movies ever. Not even one of them. So don't, so stop saying it and stop asking. Any last words on the way out of here, sis? Enjoy San Antonio Blazers. Yeah. Get them next year. Wembe. You're too damn smug. Everybody hates you from Portland. Never come to the city. We're never feeding you a good meal. And Danny, get well soon.

And the shots out to all the fans and the listeners without y'all. Who the hell are we? Catch us again this Friday on the Levitart Show feed on YouTube. Same bad time. Different back channel. Hey. You dig me. el-youp show.com