Transcript of Alley Oop 167: LET BAM COOK: Bam Adebayo Breaks Kobe’s Record | Spurs & Wemby, OKC’s SGA & NBA FIGHT

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Welcome to the Alley Oop. I am the Kid Juju Gotti, joined by my sister Trista Crick. How you doing, sis?

I'm good now that Juju Gotti's got a new single out, Like a Bump in the Shower.

Yes sir. If you don't know, man, Juju got it, man. Everywhere you get your music available right now. Blue Flame featuring my boys King Crazy and Busy Made. Neither here nor there, let's get straight into this week's controversy, bro. Kobe fans are big mad at the Bam right now.

And me, they're mad at me.

They mad at you too? Oh hell nah. Talk about this. Why they mad, bro?

So I, I went to the YouTube juju to evaluate the 81-game performance to see if there was any shenanigans in the 81 points. And I have to say, although I am a Kobe apologist and an evangelist and a lover of everything Mamba Mentality, it was not pure ethical hoops for all minutes of the game. Yes, was it a close game? For a lot of the game? Yes. Were the Lakers down double digits? Yes.

Yes.

Did the Lakers also at one point go up 20 and that man Kobe Bean Bryant was steady still in the game saying, give me the goddamn ball? Also yes.

Yeah, people are funny as hell this week trying to like— look, we love Kobe, RIP the Mamba, but come on, we conveniently forgetting that my boy used to shoot between triple teams, quadruple teams routinely, man. That was literally the stigma.

And that the crazy thing is that people are like, well, but like, you want Smush Parker to get the ball? And it's like, who does Bam have right now? Andrew Wiggins isn't playing right now. They got multiple injuries. Like, yeah, we got, we got Davion Mitchell. We're giving the ball to Davion Mitchell's the same as Smush Parker, right?

And they got bro who, they got bro who did, uh, the Dougie after he did won the dunk contest, uh, they they got, bro, you can pass him the ball, but he intentionally missing free. So it's like, look, man, I choose to enjoy it. If you a hater of stuff like this, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize, man, look, I'm tripping because it's a lot of stuff to hate on in this world right now. And bam, mama crying on the sidelines, Asia supporting her man, the Heat having a great moment. This ain't one of them times, man, that I— like I said earlier on the Levitar Show, man, the moon don't compete with the sun, man, for no shine, bro. They take turns, man. You feel me? Just because it's the night, it's gonna be morning in a little while, bro. You gonna be all right. So Kobe fans, you're good, bro. He's still a legend. Let Bam have a night.

Yeah, and on top of that, like, it was Bam. And so number one, no one will ever use that to discredit Kobe in the greatest of all time top 5 conversation. Bam is not competing in the least with Kobe, like it would have happened if, say, LeBron would have done it, or if another player that's in that same conversation would have done it. So that's number one. But number two, the human element of it all is enough to make you shed a tear. His career high was 41 before that. You are 5 statistical pieces out from where he was. That would be like if Patrick Mahomes threw for 1,000 yards in a game.

Yeah, right, right.

About well outside the realm of what he's ever done. Also, this man grew up in a single-wide trailer, didn't start playing basketball until he was 13 years old, didn't even want to claim his Nigerian heritage because he felt so bad that his dad was a bit of a not present father. And he comes out, goes to Kentucky, is a feel-good story, gets there with D-Wade, D-Wade leaves, then you end up having Udonis Haslem, then Udonis Haslem leaves, then you have Jimmy Butler and he's the alpha. Now he's gotta be the alpha, which is not, it's like not really a natural role for him. Yeah, he wants to be the second fiddle. He wants to be the Robin. He's not comfortable like being this arrogant ego Kobe Bryant-esque type of a player. So for him to take that many shots was like, okay, bam, I see you.

Exactly, exactly. Because you know the whole time Eric Spolstra was about to pull his ass out every time he shot and missed. That whole fourth quarter was trying the hell out of Eric Spolstra. Well coached by Eric Spolster, by the way. You did. But now, like you said, man, because it's Bam, I personally don't even have a feeling attached to it other than adulation. You did. Like, bro, knowing from where he come from, knowing his story, bro, if you hate on Bam, if you find yourself in 2026 hating on a good brother like Bam Adebayo, bro, you need to turn TV on and see what's going on because boy, do I have a TV show for you. CNN.

Unless you plan to bang bomb.

Right, exactly. Come on now. But get well, look, get well to all the haters out there because it ain't going nowhere. So tell your favorite player to score 84 tomorrow then if it's so easy. Moving on, man, speaking of your favorite player's favorite player, SGA, man, that boy put the cape on the other night. Two big shots to win the game against who? That, uh, the Nuggets. Then it don't even matter who they playing, they beat the Celtics without J— As a matter of fact, I'm so glad we stumbled upon this topic right here. Jaylen Brown was throughout the game the other night. How do you feel? Because you know how I feel.

I mean, sometimes you have to use the largest microphone and the largest stage to make a demonstration. And so yes, did we get robbed of watching the Spurs play the Celtics and seeing what these two teams were capable of at full strength? Yes, but that's exactly why I think JB went OD. Listen, this is the kind of shit I'm talking about. Yo, and did he just get hit bumped and was it not that serious of a push? Yeah, but again, I think JB has had it up to here. And so sometimes the— you flash on people a little more because you've been putting up with it longer than you wanted to, right?

And I think that NBA referees moving forward, bro, we got to have some type of suspension form in place for them boys. Like you're not going to just miss a call and then tell me I'm wrong and then later on tomorrow type up a report. Oops, my bad. NBA letterhead like no, no, no, no, no,. No, no. Two games without pay for that bull ass call. You found out somebody who I wanted to see that night. Also I had a little change. A little kiss on the Jalen Brown over. And now you've ruined that, sir. So one game for you referee for letting go down the same way you said, well, hey man, Thompson let this go down with Shangon. Nah, bro, you sit there and let it go down, bro. No, you're out.

Sorry, you're, you're also out of here.

Well, yeah, back to SGA, man. Is it a foregone conclusion in that West that they at least get into them Western Conference Finals?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't have anybody that are their current starters that are playing except for SGA.

right?

No chat, no Alex Crusoe. I know he comes off the bench, but sometimes he Starts and no J Dub. And you're like, well, surely they shouldn't be favored by six and a half to three and a half over the Nuggets. And. And. And they were. And they won. And the Nuggets were fully healthy outside of Peyton Watson. And like, if you're, say, sitting here saying that Peyton Watson's more important than any of those players that I just named that were sitting in street clothes, Uh, sir, I just would have to disagree. So yeah, then the Nuggets are gonna, I think, turn it up. I think they're gonna be ready to roll in the playoffs. They bring a different level of intensity, and I think that Oklahoma City Thunder series is gonna be really tight and contested no matter who's out there on the floor. But yeah, it's almost scary, Drew, and I don't know if you, you agree with this, but like the amount of injuries that OKC has had has only allowed them to get stronger, right? Because now Jason Williams, the other Jason Williams, can go for a 30-piece. It was like, whoa, I didn't even know you could do that, right?

Everybody just be still. Hold on now. Not that one too. Yeah, bro, I think it's cheating, bro. Like, bro, Philadelphia 76ers investigate on Pablo Torre, bro. Y'all boys gave them Jared McCain. And for some reason, y'all didn't understand what Jerry McCain was. I don't think so. They took him serious, like they took his injuries and whatever fingernails drama he had going on, they put that to the forefront. OKC putting his hooper skills to the forefront. You did be yourself, go put the ball in the hole bit, bro. And he is good at that. I think everybody on that team is so fire, bro, top to bottom. Even, um, what's bro on the light skin? Uh, it's not— well, Wiggins is also awesome, but they got Isaiah Joe. It's even one more. Who's AJ? Damn, Mitchell, bruh. Couldn't pick him out of the lineup.

He got that S-curl going like it's 1997, Juju. Come on, man, you got that taper going.

Come on, Sexual Chocolate, man.

Like he's on Soul for Real.

I love And he dripping like he got the Soul Glow sprayed across the street. Just let your soul glow. Look, while the soul glowing, he getting you 15 when you need him. That's if SGA feel like going this way tonight. You did. So I think the Thunder, bro, them boys so scary, and they draft position next. Let's move on before I get really, really upset and depressed, because the Spurs as well though. Future looking so bright right now, dog. The Spurs— like, if there's anybody in that West that I say, you know what, hit them, brother. OKC Thunder hit me, man, can you get my lid back? I'm going to the Spurs. Yeah, you did. Are they the top contender in the West in your opinion? I mean, outside of the Nuggets, because I don't think Peyton Watson is as small of a deal, but it's not as big of a deal as people that's making it. You did.

Well, and if they're the 2 seed, I don't see anybody's beating the Spurs. Yeah, before they get to the Thunder. So if the Thunder are there, then I think that, yeah, they're the biggest contender for them because I could truly see the Spurs beating them. Feels like there's something about how that roster's constructed that makes it really difficult for Shea to get his. And we've seen Shea be as much shut down as you could possibly shut him down. Against that team specifically. So yeah, I like everything that they do. I think we're gonna need to see a lot out of Victor Wembenyama, right? When he's gonna need to be— he's gonna need to have his feet planted. Like, he can't get undercut and flail around and lose the ball. And like, sometimes that happens with Vic. Um, but man, how he played against the Celtics the other night, he was hitting 3 pull-up, pull-up 3 after pull-up 3 after pull-up 3. Which, by the way, Juju, we need to talk about— I don't like that style of basketball. Can I get at least— can I get at least 2 or 3 passes before you shoot the damn ball?

Right. I like that from you because that's my only note on Wemby, bruh. You be selling for a lot of jumpers that your tall ass has no business fading away, taking, bruh. Like, I will admit And this might be early, this is very early. I don't know if anybody can hear this. Victor Wembanyama is the best basketball player I've ever seen in my life. Oh, I'm not going out, right? I'm not going on a limb. It feel like I'm going out on a limb, but I'm not. For real, it's the best player in basketball history, Victor Wembanyama. I'm stamping it right now. As long as he can stay healthy. You did? Come on, man, because this is ridiculous what he be doing. But at the same time, I don't know about them Thunder, man. You gotta— you gotta beat the Thunder to beat the, the king. You got to beat the king, whatever the saying is.

Moving on to the game, you gotta beat the man.

You did. Come on, man, you got to beat that man over there if you want to beat him. You did. Moving on lastly to the Cavaliers-Magic matchup the other night, you know what I mean? I don't know, but to me it seems as though The Cavaliers have a little work to do, and we know Jared Allen is still out right now. But at the same time, is this thing gonna gel in time for the playoffs, in your opinion?

I'm concerned about this roster, truly. Not just because Jared Allen's not playing and they don't look the same without him on the floor, but I don't trust those wings. You know what I mean? Yeah, like, I trust Magic City Wings a lot more than the Cleveland Cavaliers Wings. Like, they're a lot more consistent to me, and like, they don't have guys that I believe are great perimeter defenders. You got Donovan, who I think has the ability to, to like pull his shorts up and decide to really, you know, have play this hard-nosed defense. You can't—

flat floor.

Right, it's that floor. Come on, let's go. Yeah, he doesn't do it a lot, but I know he can do it. Yeah, Harden is bigger than Darius Garland, and so just for that simple fact, he's more of a physical presence defensively than what you're gonna get out of Darius. Yeah, but, and like, yes, Jared Allen, rim protector, good rebounder, beast. Black History Month, Jared Allen was legendary run. But like, who are— who else do we trust outside of that?

All right, no, no, no minutia, right? I was thinking we don't trust Tyson, Jalen Tyson, or Dean Wade.

I think Dean Wade was a minus 17 in that game.

Oh, you know who I do trust? I trust my boy though. You know, on the bench they got my boy, a legend, Thomas Bryant. I trust my boy. Yeah, I trust my boy. I trust my boy to get at least 3 fouls and 6 to 10 attempts, 1 point.

Drew, I also think like playing Keon Ellis at the 3 makes no sense. I know you need defense on the perimeter, but he is— he's a legitimate non-scoring off-the-dribble 1. He's a 2. He's like a combo guard. He's not a 3. He's too small to be a 3. You start matching up with Boston, Orlando. You right now, they're slated to play Orlando. How are you going to deal with Anthony Black and Paolo Banchero? Who are you guarding?

Right, because it's bad. The scary part about them is, as great as they are, when Desmond Bane going crazy, hang it up. Yeah, my boy, my boy hitting threes from Steph Curry range with them little arms. Like, my boy stepping up to be their number one player. P5 had such a slow start that it might be D-Bang team. They panning like it is. And Franz Wagner, he out for the season, right?

I think it looks like he— injury is progressing, lacks timeline.

Oh damn. Oh yeah, yeah, we're gonna assume my boy ain't going through this playoff run. But I think the Magic looking good because once you got the New York Knicks in your way, man, the, the thumbs up Knicks as they call them, it's goofy in the East.

So Think about this, Juju. Tristan da Silva, 6'8". Anthony Black, 6'7".

Yeah.

Desmond Bain, 6'5"— 6'6", excuse me. Paolo Banchero, 6'10". Like, it's just a bad, bad matchup for a small perimeter team.

Dennis Fruiter, 5'7".

Yes, you see what I'm saying now? You see what I'm saying?

Yeah, for sure. Right, right. And then that ain't even— we ain't even mentioning the Pistons. So yeah, you're right, that East might get a little bit more interesting than I assumed it was, uh, especially with my boys back in town. But moving on, moving on to a segment that we like to call Boy Stop. Boy, stop. Dejounte Murray last night, my sister, did you see him disrespect my boy?

I was shocked by this. Juju, let's play the tape. Got a little New Orleans in him.

Yeah, one of the most disrespectful moves in history.

That's a push-off, right? Oh, oh, he lost him in your mouth. Made him touch earth and you hit the shot. But, but, right? Oh my God, the flex.

Bro, if you hit a shot on me and I happen to fall, do not flex on me, or this is— I'm considering this— you're trying to kill me. I'm finna defend myself. I'm finna protect myself. Look at bro. Brother, so damn goofy down there. He ain't understand what was happening. He thought it was—

he looked scared, right?

He thought it was playing. That boy is not playing with you. You think Bit weren't playing with you about his money? You say he had it with him when you seen him, right? Name one person in the hood that play like that. You did? Come on, man. That boy down there playing. Dejounte Murray is not playing with my boy.

Get up, get up, bitch. I think that's what he said. He did. He's calling him. I think the thing that people fail to realize about our guy Dejounte Murray is his pretty face, because he's a genuinely perfect skin, has one of the most modelesque faces.

Yeah, yeah, my boy, a '90s, uh, a Black, uh, movie star.

He's looking like Al B. Sure, like he could have been, you know, the light-skinned kid in The Best Man. He was— he's right there, right? But he is, he is one of them ones.

He definitely is, bro.

On the list, had— was in all kinds of trouble growing up, getting in with the wrong crowd. That was his crowd. And right, you might see—

considered the wrong crowd, that guy on the bottom around there, he think that's the wrong crowd.

Yeah, that's the wrong— my crowd, that's the right crowd for DeJounte Murray. And you may say, oh well, isn't he from Seattle? Listen, people need to stop disrespecting the hood. Of the Pacific Northwest. Okay, people come up from California. We got cars, we got planes, we got horses and buggies. Okay. And we're, we're sea ripping and, you know, pirouetting all the way up to Canada. Okay. I'm not sea ripping. I'm not pirouetting.

There we go. There we go. There we go. Clean it up. But, but, but they doing it. It's happening. It's happening, right? It's happening in our circles.

I was in a 6-0 neighborhood, so that's why I just naturally— just cuz just naturally flows out of my tongue.

Come on, man, you got to know, bro. So yeah, so she who didn't know all this background about DeJounte Murray and decided to guard him and play— boy, stop. You better, like you said earlier, you better touch the floor and guard up. That ain't the one you play with, bro. Miss Rebecca, what we got next?

All right, next up you got a guy basically who goes out of bounds having the best day of his life. Here we go.

All right, bro, come on, man. We got my boy, he fell into the cheerleaders, bro. Lock in, lock in, cuz. Lock in, bro. Get up. No, ain't no more talking.

Hey, I'll be back. He touches that right one. Look at it. Go back. Oh, touches the leg as well. Okay, I'm gonna need you to stop playing around, Zaga.

First of all, look at him.

Watch it. Oh, Grace is the right one. She puts her palm in front. It's like, yo, you gotta back— you gotta back up now. You gotta back up.

It's that look right there though, like he doesn't want to leave. He doesn't want to leave this area.

I'm so sorry.

He touched his chest. He like, first of all, happy International Women's Day. First of all, let me start there. Second of all, what is this? Bath and Body Works? What is this? I'm getting remnants of, uh, hmm, what is this, a body shop?

I'm so sorry, but I'll see you later. His, his teammate was like, come on, bring it, bring your ass, okay? Like, stop caking over there.

Snap his ass right up in there, boy. Bring your ass. Come on, come on. Are you tripping? But hey, bro, to my boy who fell over there, although I understand how it be, you know what I mean? You find yourself over there, but Boy, stop, man. It's the damn tournament time. Lock in.

Or, or do your thing, do your thing, do your thing.

What we got next, Miss Rebecca? One more video.

All right, up next we got, um, well, Kawhi calling it like it is, right?

Oh yeah, my boy Kawhi. Look, secretly Kawhi might be greatest player in NBA history. Them boys start fighting, he said, hey, they fighting. You know, you already know Kawhi is not going over there. He's not going for any of that.

They fighting, right, bro? Hey, they fighting.

My boy got an appointment with the ice packs on his knees in T-minus 1 minute, man. Y'all better go grab them, boy. They fighting, man.

Hey, you should probably go over there. They're fighting.

This bring up what you were saying earlier though, bro. The Timberwolves put this game down as well, and quietly, quietly, the Clippers are over.500 now. I don't know if you want to mess around and catch them boys in the play-in or the 6th, 7th seed. Hey now, let's, let's— I know what we paying attention to, the Thunder and the Spurs and Nuggets, but look out. Look, so you don't give a damn about nothing I'm talking about, do you?

Look at all I want is a Lakers-Clippers 3-6 matchup. I need a— I need an LA home and home. I need a LeBron getting hit with the Kawhi step back. I need Luka versus What— whoever would be guarding him. I don't think it's Darius Garland. I need a Ben, right?

Bro, Ben— Luka do not want to see Ben in the playoffs, in my opinion.

Ben is one of them ones as well. He's always— you notice that Ben has now been in two fights over a game ball for a rookie, right?

And I think it's been like this year, bro, since he been with the Clippers. My boy, my boy is right at home. You said some folks did not belong in Indiana. My boy belong in Watts the way he is.

Listen, he's a Caribbean kid. He's from— I think he's from Haiti, isn't he?

Yeah, yeah, hell yeah. I think—

yeah, he's not— he's not playing either.

Ben Mathis ain't playing no games. And look, and he gonna— he gonna give you 20 points too. That's the problem with Ben, because you ain't gonna play with Ben, he gonna flop.

Yeah, he's Haitian.

He's gonna be flopping his ass. Are you seeing him try to get that foul? But yeah, man, that'll do it for another episode of that Alley Oop. Thank you as always to Miss Rebecca Donna Hughes. This episode will not be on YouTube. Hey, you feel me, Mars? Appreciate it, sis. You did. Come on, man. Uncle Flippin, I'm so happy. I'm so happy you're showing love, but I already know we're gonna flag the hell out of this guy tomorrow. I'm just playing, man. We're not flagging nothing. It ain't at all right. It's family over here, man. Any last words on the way out?

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That channel.

You did the DLS Hoops channel. I gotta work on that.

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