Transcript of Alley Oop 131: Victor Wembanyama DOMINATES While NBA Gambling Scandal Explodes

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I look forward to this every single week. Well, two times a week, actually.

Welcome to the Alley Oop. You got to know, you got to know, you got to know. I'm joined every single time, as always, by my sister in the Lord, Trista Crick. How are you doing today, sis?

I'm doing fantastic. I just watched one of the most dominant performances by someone seven feet taller or higher. I don't know. Actually, He didn't have any size in Victor Wembenyama, which I'm sure we'll get into. Then the head coach of my favorite team got arrested today.

I'm glad you said that because at 8: 22 AM Eastern Time, I I got a tweet that came out from @tristacrick, whoever that is. I don't know who this is, but @tristacrick on Twitter. It says, Blazers are for real, folks. I did not know, really.

Then literally, I think 30, 20 minutes later, they arrested the head coach.

Literally. Come on, man.

Who is that Trista Crick girl? Because she is a bad omen. Anytime she says anything positive about the Blazer, something bad happens. Now we got Tia Tiago effing Splitter running the team.

Tiago Splitter.

Is that even a real name?

The entire world glitched last night after seeing Victor Wimbenyama in Thirty minutes now. Not a whole game, not a whole practice. Thirty stinking minutes. That's longer than the episode of Seinfeld. Barely. You get your episode of Seinfeld, get your episode of Friends, Wemby got 40 points, 15 rebounds, zero turnovers. What do you think of that performance against AD all day? What did you get from that game last night?

That was one of the most effortless 40 point performances I've ever seen because, like you said, it was only in 30 minutes. Wemby was sitting on the bench for large portions of the first half, specifically, and I had him to go over 25 points. I was in the first quarter, worried because he had seven points, nine points or something. And then I'm like, Oh, no, no. Whenever Wemby wants to score, he will score. He can get the ball, and then he'll be at the three-point line. And I think it's one step, and he's dunking on you. The way that he pulled up over Derek Lively was like, I don't even see Derek Lively. I can pull up, I can turn around, I can go back to the basket, do the dream shake, and I'm elevated it. My chin doesn't see you. My chest doesn't see you. I can go up and under, dunk. There was one move he made where he did a turnaround and then did the up and around dunk with one hand. I was just stunned. Okay, so yes, Wemby is strong. Yes, Wemby has been in the weight room with the Shaolin monks.

But at the same time, Wemby has also just elevated the rest of the team because all the other San Antonio Spurs were balling out it as well, including our man, Stefan Castle. I thought to myself, Man, I really should have actually physically bet him to be the points leader of the NBA season, which was yesterday before that game, 100 to one, and today is 14 to 1.

Damn. Damn. I definitely feel you because throughout the night, it was, I would say four or five times where I rewound what I just saw. I'm like, No, no, no, no, no, no. That didn't just happen. Rewind.

You're like, What is that?

Right. My boy blocked the shot out of Derek Lively. He didn't block Derek Lively's shot. He blocked the shot out of Derek Lively's shot. Came down same sequence, gave him one of these. Allen Iverson, my truckers. Come here. Oh, you over there. You lost your ankles. Come here. I got something to tell you. In your mouth, a wet popsicle. Look at this. Look at this. Okay. Get that.

Goes Coast to Coast, takes it like a guard, takes it like his name is Kevin Durant. Tween, tween. Oh, my God. Oh, you're gone. Oh, step back. And one, sir. And one, sir. The and one over AD was also effortless.

Right. Some people call it stefferless.

Oh, my God. Stefferless. Wemberless.

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Oh, my goodness. This game was outrageous. You know that the San Antonio Spurs were actually underdogs in this game by three points, and they blew the shit out of Cooper Flag. They made us forget all about Cooper Flag.

Bro, we seven. How many minutes we in? We five, six minutes in, and I didn't even mention Cooper, nor Flags, nor the national anthem. Nothing.

No flags, no stars, no stripes, nothing. Only Wemby.

How do you feel, though? Okay, now that we bottom up, how do you feel about Cooper Flag's first game? Because Jason Kidd had the boy at Point Guard last night, and we all know that ain't going to last. We know Kyrie sitting in the wings waiting, but I didn't think he was going to start at Point over Dilo. What do you think about that move from Jay Kidd?

Well, that's the problem is it shows that there is a Complete lack of trust in D'Angelo Russell. Because Cooper Flag first and foremost, is a rookie. Second of all, that is not his natural position to play point guard. So you are not putting him in the greatest position to succeed. He needs the ball in specific spots. Now, Cooper Flag is very talented. Cooper Flag can handle some ball handling responsibilities, but Cooper Flag is not a point guard. He's a 6'7 defensive monster who's cleaning up the backside.

Ayo.

Ayo. And blocking shots. He's like a catch-and-shoot shooter. He's not like a pull-up, distribute, Organize the offense, creator type. And so I think he's miscast, but really, I think it's just that they don't have the cast member that they need, which is Kyrie Irving. So in the meantime, it might be a little ugly while Cooper Flag is adjusting to this new role. What you think?

Yeah. Speaking of ugly and Cooper Flag, new balance that my boy put out. Salute. It's a great accomplishment to have your own sneaker. No one dreamed of you to give me one. Nobody knocking down their door to give me my own sneaker. I get that part. I am. Thank you, sis. What are we going to get? Saccones? Something flashy.

You could be an Anta.

Why not? Okay. Salute to Kyrie. I'm looking at me, a little Antamocus. You did. But don't Cooper Flat, New Balance. Bro, they look like you're supposed to cut your grass in these only. Don't play for real in these. Cut your front lawn, Indies, and only... What's the conference? Sec. They look like some SEC shoes. That's what they look like.

They don't look like Big Ten shoes?

You might be right, bro. Big Ten.

They're big 10s. They're big 10 shoes. Who is the swaggiest New Balance athlete?

It might be Cameron Brink.

I'm looking it up right now.

I'm looking it up right now. I think it's Shoheya Tiny. Shoheo Tiny just got all the swag from Japan. Is he from Japan?

Tyrese Maxi. Tyrese Maxi is a swaggy little one.

I don't know how much swag my boy got. I know my boy is Shifty. He's Shifty as I'll get out. And him and VJ Edgecom got some cooking right now. In Philadelphia. Tyrese Maxi and VJ Edgecom. Man, do you think VJ Edgecom is Riki of the Year material? I know we're speaking very, very, very early, but what, 34 points in this first game?

34, 13 for 26, 5 for 13, seven rebounds, three assists, one steal.

In the N-A W, by the way, in Boston, you already know Boston got a long year ahead of him, but still, Boston had that game.

That's a big win. Nobody's really expecting anything out of these Philadelphia 76ers. And so if he's the one and you have injuries popping up like Whac-A-Mole, like we see from Philadelphia all the time. We've even seen this with Maxi going in and out, obviously, Embiid going in and out. Then the role players, Paul George, we will never see him play a full healthy season, I don't think. I think I think they won the draft. I know Cooper Flag long term is going to be excellent. But VJ Edgecom, he is really benefiting from a pro-style spacing perspective because Baylor and college basketball is just like very tight lanes. You're playing in a crowd much more than you do in the NBA. And man, he looks really freaking good, and Darryl Morey looks really freaking smart.

You who didn't look really freaking good, nor neither the end piece of the process? Oh, no. Joel and Beat and his knees, bro. Like, Dumb Rags Lash knees was looking trash last night.

Doug, I feel I'm wearing off on you and not in a good way, honestly. I really feel like maybe I am getting nicer and you're getting more blunt. I'm not saying you're getting He's meaner, but you're getting more blunt about what you're saying. Yeah, he doesn't. It's like he can't jump over a deck of cards right now.

Right, bruh. A deck?

A card? A deck of cards. He can't jump over a deck of cards.

I'm talking about one card. He can't jump over the Ace of Spades right now.

No, he looks like a shell of himself. He does look cooked. This team, though, I mean, when you have multiple players that are not Joel Embiid and not Paul George that you are excited about, you've got Jerrord McCain. First of all, he's a brand. He's a star. He's got the Sally's Beauty Supply sponsorship. You've got him as a bucket getter, and he absolutely is. You got VJ Edgecom, you got Tyrese Maxi. That's enough right there. That's two guys on rookie contracts and a guy on a very team friendly max deal.

We can build around that. Right. I like how the boy Bona be in the paint, getting bored, blocking shots, causing havoc on the defensive end. They got something in Philly for real.

This is how you do two timelines.

This is how you do it. Would you trade my boy right now, Joel MB?

What can you even get for Joel MB?

A snack machine, maybe. One with barbecue Fritos in them. Moonpies.

Deck of Cards.

Chewing gum?

Chewing gum? I mean, yeah, I would trade him if I could trade him. I don't know who... Maybe somebody thinks they have a better training staff than you, and they say, Hell, Mitchell Robinson. Maybe the Knicks say, Okay, well, we don't think Mitchell Robinson will ever be healthy. And so it's just better to have Joel Embi there in the paint, holding it down, him and Carl Anthony Towns. I don't know. I mean, yes, I would. I just don't know who wants him. He's like an asset that's like a pinto right now.

Damn, bro. How the mighty have fallen, bro. I would have never thought we would say that about that man.

He's so good when he's good.

Right. And he's still a national hero. He was on the team that Steph Curry was on.

Oh, here we go. Steph Curry They don't care about that.

Steph Curry saved Earth from villains, and he was on that team. So he's always a hero. Salute the team USA.

Are the Serbians always considered a villain?

I didn't say that.

Who are the villains. Anyone but us, the Americans.

Just the collective- All anyone. Right. The collective world against Earth. They are the villains. Salute to Bogey. I see. Bogdan Bogdanovic. Never a villain in my book. Salute to the boy.

Salute to him.

Moving on. We had some more action in the NBA last night. We had a lot of action, but I'm going to go before tonight. That first night, Kevin Durant returned to OKC on Championship Night. Larry, I see you. They boo, my boy so ferociously. Okc fans, you don't understand the Constitution You don't understand liberty, you don't understand the Louisiana Purchase. This man is an American hero. He was on the team that beat France and Serbia. You don't boot this, man. He made Oklahoma City cool. I understand he left. Get over it. Put Oklahoma City's rings in a box and put Kevin Durant's rings in a box. Shake them by your ears. This one seems more rattly because there's two in this box and there's only one in this box. How dare you? Shame on OKC fans. Salute to that little baby he picked up before the game. But Reports came in that that same baby was booing his ass 20 minutes later. How do you feel?

I love Kevin Durant. I love everything about him. I like that he booed back.

Yeah, booed back, bro.

I like that he's like, You guys don't like me? I don't like you. Honestly, I don't like the fans. I don't like my former teammates, except for my current teammate, Steven Adams. I saw a stat, Juju, that the Rockets have played more games for the Oklahoma City Thunder, then all of the Oklahoma City Thunder has played for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

That's a ridiculous stat. Stat of the damn day. Put the music behind it. I'm not going to bother you, Mr. Becker, today. Neat-o.

Stat of the day. What was that like? Yeah, that's crazy. Steven Adams and Kevin Durant are OKC legends, and I think they need to get respect put on their name forever. They were there. I mean, Kevin Durant was there, excuse me, when they transitioned from the Seattle Supersonics to the Oklahoma City Thunder. And without him, this team would have nothing, really. They would not have ever been cool. Him, obviously, Russell Westbrook and Harden. But I just think that the business is dirty in general. He's been passed around a bit, and he left on his own terms from the Thunder because they traded James Harden. We talked about this last episode as well. I just think in general that that matchup was so fascinating in terms of the basketball, because you talk about a team that has no point guard. I mean, Dallas has no point guard, but, man, Houston really doesn't have a point guard. I think Ahmed Thompson may be worse as a point guard than Cooper Flag.

Oh, damn.

I love Ahmed Thompson. He's really good. He's really, really good, but he's not a point guard. My man Reid Sheppard looks very much undersized as well. So they need to figure it out and go out and get a guard. Asap. Find a way to get De'Aaron Fox. He's just down the road. Find a way to get, I don't know, just get somebody.

Right. Paul George. But the look in the eyes of Shane Gillis Alexander- Shane Gillis? As well as- Shane Gillis. Yeah, Shane Gillis Alexander. Anybody who Reid Sheppard switched up on Lou Dorge was like, Oh, ISO. And they proceeded to take his behind to the Who every single time. It was so bad that in overtime, had the offense-defense with Reid. Like, Okay, we can't leave you on Shay. Absolutely not. Which Shay still proved to be Shay and got KD to file out on that hair fake, hair fake last couple of seconds, which Katie came out and said, You know what? That was on me. And you know what else was on him? That time out that he called that they didn't acknowledge. Salute to the rest for that. They get a lot of bad flack.

They said, We like free basketball. They said, We like free basketball. We're You're not going to Chris Webber, Kevin Durant right now in his first game in Houston.

That sounds like a Ayo, but it's not. We're moving on. Also, the return of Marcus Smart. The breaking news, Marcus Smart is a LA Laker, and he is up to his old antics. I'm talking about 100 miles an hour. He almost pulled Steph Curry's shoulder out his socket, put his arms like that. I don't know how his shoulder got there. It wasn't My boy is back.

Back on the main scene. Defensive player of the year, former defensive player of the year, Marcus Smart. Do not besmirch him.

You feel me? I would never besmirch Marcus Smith because he's a lifelong Celtic.

A lifelong Boston Celtic. I know.

You got to help us get to this, but he didn't get one.

Exactly. They said he was the heart and soul of the Boston Celtics, and the team would never be the same without him. But yet they did win a championship without him. But he is still a legend that was a part of the process. Yeah, he is. Yeah, no, he's cooked. I mean, I think all these Lakers juju are cooked outside of Luka. It's a team that I think a lot of people are going to be rooting for and looking at and betting on and talking about on TV. And they are a team that really is a paper tiger. And to be honest, this will come out tomorrow after this matchup concludes, and maybe I'm going to be proven incorrect. But I see Juju, the Denver Nuggets are underdogs to the Golden State Warriors tonight. And to that, I say, Is Nikola Jokić out? No. Is Cam Johnson out? No. Is Jamal Murray out? No. Aaron Gordon out? No. So why the hell are they underdogs? Maybe tomorrow I'll look like a complete fool. But as of now, I think the Golden State is a team that's going to win some regular-season games. They're going to do not a lot more than that.

Damn. Look, Look, this is coming out tomorrow, so I'm going to try to sound very, very brilliant right now. Bro, Jimmy Butler last night, oh, my God. When he snaps into that mode that he snapped into last night, it's trouble Double. Them Golden State unks, I promise you, they going to make way more noise than we think. At least the Four Seed. I said they're going to get the four seed earlier, but four seed.

What they did to the Denver Nuggets was very impressive.

Right. And Brandon Podzimski, you cannot shoot that shot, bro. Come on, man. Not here nor there. Look, that's from the future right there. But we teased it earlier, but we got to get into it, man. Your team, your head coach, Chauncey Jerome Billups has been arrested by the feds for cheating their poker. Now, keep respect-ish on his name. He He wasn't betting on NBA game. He wasn't doing the stuff there.

Well, did you see more stuff has come out, Juju, that they're saying now online there's some reporting that is accusing him of alerting gamblers that Damian Lillard was going to be out of games that nobody knew he was going to be out of. So that is also coming out. Big win, not win. It was basically a win for the Portland Jailblazers. Ant Edwards had to hit a go-ahead last second three to win the game against the Blazers at home, game one. And Chauncey Billups, after the game, said, I'm just going to let the chips fall where they fall and not think about anything else. And then, six hours later, he was pulled from his home by federal agents, literally pounding down his door with the barricades and all that shit. Now he's going to stuff. Excuse me, sorry, Ms. Rebecca. And going to get arrained today And they're saying he was like the... What do they call that? He was like the Honey Trap.

No, they're not a Honey Trap, my boy. Come on, bro. They can't make you the Honey Trap.

He was like the Honey Pot, where they were like, Oh, do you want to play in this poker game with all these former NBA legends? If you want to sit next to Chauncey Billups' Hall of Famer, we've got Chauncey T. Billups at this poker game. And then, apparently, allegedly, according to Cash Patel and the rest of them boys and the FBI, they had some X-ray technology where you could see through the cards. And there was some aftermarket shuffling machine, and they had IFBs in their ears or something, some way to communicate with the people who are not getting their money taken from them. And this, apparently, was happening nationwide.

Nationwide? How many poker games was my boy playing?

I guess there was six different cities that this was occurring in. And Damon Jones, who played with LeBron James, was involved not only in that scheme, that was apparently backed by the Mafia, the Gambino crime family and some other ones. I didn't know that the Mafia teemed up. Look, that's how you know it's real.

That's how you know it's real. When the feds say the Gambino family and Lacostra Nostra, All bets are off, bruh. Chancy, good luck, my brother, but we got to stand on this side because we don't need the Costa Nostra bothering none of us.

I was like, I thought La Costa Nostra was a caffeine brand I didn't know that it was a mob that was also in connection with the Gambinos as an alliance. The whole thing's crazy.

I thought they were in the triads.

In the triads? But I guess Damon Jones was also involved in in the Terry Rozier scheme with the Mafia, which was, Hey, my foot, my back, my neck and my back, I'm going to be coming out in the first quarter, bet my unders. And then those unders hit. And that was like thousands of dollars that was bet against the legal sports books. So the whole thing, we got Terry Rozier getting locked up. We got my head coach getting locked up. And I was supposed to go to the game yesterday, and I wasn't feeling good because I got genetic cataracts, and they put a bunch of eye drops in my ears or in my ears, in my eyes. Damn. Now, practice. Yeah. I mean, the whole thing, Juju, is just baffling and historically unprecedented.

That boy said he going to let the chips fall where they fall. Terrible pun, terrible coincidence.

Say, The chips fall where they fall when you're about to get involved in a poker A poker thing is rough, man. Let the chips fall where they fall.

Salute. Get well soon. And welcome, Tiago Splitter. Do you think Terry Rozier- NBA champion, Tiago Splitter. Right. With your San Antonio Spurs. Not here nor there. But do you think Terry Rozier plays another second in the NBA after this?

No. Not a second. When the feds come, It's a wrap for you. I think Gilbert Arenas might have snitched on everybody when he got arrested and said he was going to sing. Listen, he said he was going to, and then we got- Allegedly. He did say it on the internet. He said it. I heard him. I saw him. He said, I'm snitching on everybody. And then we got Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones, probably played with Gilbert Arenas for the Wizards because Damon Jones played for half the league. And now we got people going to jail. So congratulations on Gil's Arena getting picked up for another season.

Allegedly, and salute to no chill, Gil.

Allegedly, and salute to no... Yes, Snitch Gil.

You know who been having a great couple of days, bro. I ain't never seen this brother glow like this. Bro, on TV, glowing right now. Sham Sharania, bro. Oh, yeah. That boy can't wait to break this news. He said, Oh, some fun news. This is not fun news, Did he say fun news? He said fun news on his IG story.

No, he did not.

Right. Ansonute to Pablo Torre, my our brother. Pablo Torre had this story first. He scooped Shams on this, so Man, we got to keep the respect on the boy Pablo name, man. Terry Rozier, bro. It's that one video out there of Terry Rozier shooting. Look at my boy Shams right now. This boy look resplanded.

Yeah, he does. He said, That's why they pay me the big bucks to break this stuff.

Moving on, though. We got some more. We're going to update some more scores. Right, quick. The Suns came back on the Kings. The Spurs, of course, did their thing. The Jazz put a foot, a foot, up the Clipper's ass. I'm talking about size 100 foot up. It was never a chance for these boys in the game. Is the kawaii story affecting these boys like that?

I heard he was doing just as much on the floor defensively as he did for Aspiration.

Okay. Look, for all the uninitiated out there, that mean he ain't do a damn thing.

He didn't do a damn thing.

The Magic, Orlando Magic, over the heat. I think the Orlando Magic might be in the Eastern Conference Championship. I'm going to say that again for my glitching computer. I think the Orlando Magic might be in the Eastern Conference Championship this year. Okay. Against the Knicks, your Knickerbockers, not mine, yours. You got me those tickets.

Well, I, well, I won you those tickets. We didn't pay for them. Neither here nor there. Good stuff. It's great. Oh, big shout out to our brothers and sisters in Christ in in the NBC family. They did a phenomenal job in the first night of the NBA with all the graphics, the slam thing, the Michael Jordan interview, which he didn't say anything at all, but I still was completely entranced. Mike Tariko on the broadcast makes Everything better. And shout out to Carmelo Anthony for not getting bullied into wearing a suit.

There we are. Come on, the real legend. Salute to Kian, too. I'm ready to see my boy Kian this year in Syracuse. I think he going to be one of the ones. But, yeah, bro. Great start to the season.

Great start to the show. Great start to the season. What a clean show. Lots that we got to. Lots of story lines. And also, get my boy Chauncey Billups out the clink. Somebody bail him out.

You feel me? Come on, get him out. Also, get my sister an award for a perfect bow tie on her hoodie today. That's how it's done, ladies and gentlemen. If you want to tie your hoodie up- Thank you.

I had to do it multiple times before the show started.

Come Come on, man. Brown on Brown, man. Any last words getting out of here today?

Listen, don't tell everybody to bet your unders unless you don't want to play in the NBA anymore. You make $27 million a year, Terry Rozier. And we know you're on the list, okay? I've seen your Instagram's posts and your stories. We know you're affiliated, allegedly. So don't get yourself involved in the mob as well.

Right. And also, it's a good time to remind you all, Terry Rozier is here doing music, so he might be finna go through a little bit of a financial situation. So let's run his streams up right now ASAP. I'm not sure his name or his handle.

In the arms of an angel.

That's the song. Thank you always to Ms. Rebecca Donahue. I see you. We love you. Dylan Hoang, as always with the D's. With the Ds. With the Ds. With the Ds. Come on, man. Big salutes as always. And thank you all for tuning in without us, without you all, who the hell are we? What the hell are we? You feel me?

When we be back Tuesday, same back time, same back channel. Lock in.

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