Transcript of Alley Oop 176: STEPH CURRY GOES NUCLEAR | Warriors Saved by INSANE 2nd Half | Banchero Drama, LaMelo Fined

This for all of my enemies that see me getting wild right now. See me getting wild right now. See me getting wild right now. This for all of my hang hoes that see me getting wild right now. Hell yeah, I won't stop right now. Welcome back to the alley-oop.

You got a good voice, Juju. Just the voice of an angel. I was in an Uber one time with you, or a Lyft one time with you, and you started singing For Real For Real, and I was like Welcome back to the Alley Oop, man.

I am Juju Gotti, joined by my sister as always, Trista Crick. How are you doing? First and foremost, I got smoke with somebody that you came across. I'm not gonna let you go ahead because I saw my sister in a battle and my heart starts beating too fast and I want to jump through the computer screen. How are you doing, sis?

I mean, like, I'm doing okay. We got into a little scuffle two nights ago with— or two days ago with Jey Uso.

I don't smell what the Usos cooking. And at the end—

He's like The Rock's little cousin or whatever.

Get him out of here.

And he's got, uh, what's his name, Rafiki. Is that how you pronounce his name? Rafiki is his, his daddy.

Okay.

And legend, legend, legend, legend Rafiki. And he's none of those.

Nope.

He's none of those.

Close. Yeah, put hands on— look, you put hands on some of the wrong folks, guess what? I don't like it. So either way it goes, Jey Uso, you sir are on the number one enemy list as far as I'm concerned moving forward in my life. If I see you, it's up.

And like, to be honest, he's fighting IShowSpeed and Logan Paul, so that kind of tells you how the WWE feels about him.

There we go, boom, roasted. Moving on to this league though, because just as many hands was being thrown in that studio, it is what it is in the league as well. No pun intended, LaMelo Ball getting All the hatred in the world right now, all the controversy. Did he trip Bam on purpose? Even if he didn't, he deserved to be suspended. Where do you land on it now? Because now he's been suspended, or he's been fined $35,000 plus $25,000 more for cursing in the, uh, postgame interview with Cassidy Hubbard. Chump change, basically. Would you pay $35,000 to get the other team's best player off the court in the playoffs?

I think yes. I think yes. In a win-or-go-home scenario, in a March Madness style, you don't want to really hurt him, but like, at least he was out for the rest of the game. And they went berserk. Game goes to overtime. Kobe White, worth every single penny that he's getting paid, saved them. Like, where do we— Juju, where do we fall with LaMelo? Because on one hand, he's hitting cars, he's leaving the scene, he's playing in Lithuania, he's playing with our emotions. He pretty much lost them the game almost.

Yeah, he did. Yeah, the rare case where he lost it and won the damn game.

He lost it and won it. That's kind of what I'm saying is How should we evaluate what LaMelo Ball is?

Right, right. It's like the mohawk. It's, it's a lot. He still got the Hot Cheetos. That's— I, I never recovered from Hot Cheetos. If you don't know what Hot Cheetos is, Google it. LaMelo Ball, Hot Cheetos. Wow. But at the same time, my boy be out there hooping, man. He, he started off the game so fire, went super duper cold in that second half. Made some of the most boneheaded plays you could think of, but like you say, bailed them out at the end. I myself would pay that $35 as well. I'm the Celtics. Who we got coming up? We got Tyrese Maxey. Would I pay $35 to get Tyrese Maxey up out of here? I'm so sorry, who do I make this out to, the NBA or Adam Silver? Because I'm paying that $35. I think my boy got off scot-free, damn near. Because my boy contract, what is it, a couple, a couple of M&Ms a year, maybe about 20 M&Ms a year, something like that. That $35 ain't nothing. So salute. Did you see his daddy though took to Twitter? Because after that it got a lot of people online, talking heads, kind of going at LaMelo's character.

I, I mean, I, I want to keep it on the court with these situations. Even my boy Nick Wright, our brother, Ned Wright went online and said LaMelo Ball is a clown.

Oh wow.

Yeah, I don't know.

Did he also say that Lonzo was a clown as well?

Yeah, I don't know, bro. Whoever he's— I, I— he might have said it back in the day, but he— this way, he said LaMelo Ball is a clown, and I don't know if I necessarily like that a little bit, you feel me? Because that's going off the court, and I know he has his off-the-court issues, but we sport shows And we supposed to be talking about him doing the sports thing.

So you don't think—

verify—

you don't think he's talking about him being a clown on the court?

He didn't. You know whenever somebody says something and the co-host kind of wince? My boy Chris Broussard kind of wince like, oh, we can't— it's a little far. Because he didn't keep it to the court. He says LaMelo was just a clown, you dig? And I think that's a little far, you dig? Even if he is or not, I don't think we should be the judge, right?

That's a good point. What I will say is I don't think LaMelo Ball is a clown, but you doing clown activities, there we go. Hey, clowns are your enemies.

That's how you do it, right? He's exhibiting the behavior of Bozo. You can't call him—

he's a clown, but like, he does a lot of clownish stuff.

Yeah, he do, bro. Salute, bro. And his cars are clown colors.

Correct. It's the— it's the clown mobile. I like Juju. I— but I don't know what happened in the last 12 months. Here's what I think happened. If you exhibit clown behaviors, yeah, all you need is a 40% shooting, uh, all you need is a 40% shooting Supercuts white boy at your side, and it almost like It almost like tames you a little bit, right?

Salute to Con Nipple, man. I'm not calling him Con.

He like almost like soothes the— like almost like un-clown washes. Yeah, Lamelo. Because I hated Lamelo.

Okay.

And now I'm like, you know what, right? I kind of like Lamelo. I really do.

Look, that Musa Diabate situation, it didn't help or hurt either because I feel like since then, bro, him and Musa been dogs on the court. Musa got like, what, 14 rebounds the other night in the win-or-go-home game. So it's like, bro, I'm with you, bro. At a certain time I saw him as something, but now I'm like, hold on now, look at my boy out there go. And Concanipple, like you say, bro, my boy had a stinker the other night.

Awful. Had to be benched. They said LaMelo plays like he's wearing slides. And I honestly think that's the best. That's literally the best possible description of LaMelo. Like, he, he literally in, in my— I made this up and I don't— probably somebody said this before, but like, LaMelo plays like every time he does anything, he says either out loud or to himself, Fuck YOLO.

YOLO.

Yes, dude.

YOLO.

You know what I mean? I'm just gonna try this. Why? Why not? Like, I know it's an NBA playing game, and I know that like we go home if we lose, but you know what, fuck it. YOLO.

You feel me? Come on, man. Moving on though, man. We had some games last night. Well, by the time you hit this, the night before last. Where the Orlando Magic took they behinds to Philadelphia, and Philadelphia minus Joel Embiid— I'm not gonna say spank the baby because it wasn't necessarily a horrible watch, but the Orlando Magic going Orlando Magic right when you think they're not gonna Orlando Magic. Paulo Banchero, have you seen him? I'm gonna put up some posters, wanted posters. Have you seen this man? We call him P5. Some people call him Patrick Mahomes at the race. Have you seen him though? Because I thought my boy was a little more efficient than what he's putting forth at the moment, I say. Because he still got Friday to try to redeem himself, but I'm taking the Hornets. What you think about the Magic's piss-poor performance, dog?

7 for 22. Oh, negative 17 on the floor. That is 0 for 5 from 3. Mm, bruh, that's 6 turnovers, bruh.

I'm about to throw up, dog.

Listen, Paolo Banchero is a rich man's— right now I'm giving him grace and space, but right now Paolo Banchero looks like a rich man's Ben Simmons.

I like it, bro. I'm going to mix it with what I had in my head now that you say that. Paulo Banchero is the Ben Simmons of CJ Stroud, because I can tell you talented, bro. I see it, I see it. You're so dominant, you could do whatever you want to. He had about, what, 10 free throws first half? But for some reason, the dog is a poodle. What I did— I hear barking inside your chest, bro. And the Magic, they got rumors on rumors on rumors. They said they, they coaches fired no matter what. I saw a report from a credible source that say my boy is out of here before the game yesterday.

I have a credible source that said weeks ago they were calling their friends, like assistant coaches and staff members, were like, yo, you know, you know anyone who might be hiring for the Providence job? And he's like, what? What do you mean? He's like, yeah, you got any, you got any hookups with Rick Pitino over there at St. John's?

I mean, they're writing on the wall.

Listen, they all know he's a dead man walking. And when you're a dead man walking, you do crazy shit. And, and we saw it, Juju. Dylan, hit the video of dead man walking Jamal Murdaugh trying to come back alive, right?

With them smelling salts. This how you know, oh, my boy is through. Look at my boy. I'm gonna rip this. Oh my God, look at my boy! What? Hey, the cameraman wrong as hell though too, though, bro. Star my boy out, bro. Why is you ripping smelling sauce before, bro? You coaching, you ain't coming in. You good, bro, keep that right there. We need to put that on t-shirts, bro. When you know you fired but got two, uh, play-in games to coach, so you just ripping them up, bro. Ain't no way in hell, man. Get well soon to them. They need to give my boy Paulo the least improved player award this year, bro.

The most regressed player award.

P5. Goddamn. I think also too, before we leave them, I think they were playing better when D'Bang was the focus, because it was a time where Franz was hurt, P5 was hurt, and I feel like D'Bang, when it was his team, it was just for some reason flowing a little better, man. I think they got a lot— Jam, I think they got a lot of work to do in the offseason. Get them out of here.

It's a, um, hard thing to run your offense through a forward, you know what I mean? Yeah. And he's like, um, He's like 8-bit Paolo, you know?

And then here comes Franz Wagner, 7-bit.

Yeah, you know what I mean? It's like you watch, um, like EA Sports, it's in the game on like Nintendo One.

Yeah, yeah.

And like you don't get the smooth motion, you just get like every 5th frame, and he's just like, oh, it missed.

All right, bro, moving on to somebody who is probably a thousand bit. If Paulo is 8-bit, this brother is a thousand bit. Steph Curry. Oh my damn, turn back the clock yet again. I'm gonna stop, like, I'm gonna stop saying turn back the clock. This is his time. He's on this time every single time, bro. Did you see my boy How did you experience Steph Curry saving the day yet again?

You feel almost not dumb, but like, you're just like, how do I continue to say this is the time where he won't deliver?

Right?

I mean, it's like eventually you will be right. Like, eventually he won't deliver. But like, that time feels nowhere close to now. And shout out to Al Horford for even putting Steph Curry in that spot with his 4 threes where Steph would come back and shoot those 2. How many points does Steph have in the final minute? He was going crazy. And I know that the Warriors aren't shit and they're not going anywhere, but in a one game, right, Suns Suns, it's, it's, it's a wrap. Like, you're gonna need Dylan Brooks to do his best LaMelo Ball $35,000 fine impression in order for you guys to have a chance. Because when you're up 14 with that little time to go, Juju, and you lose that game at the crib, what?

Bro, had Kawhi looking like me out there second half. Like, bro, this brother is special. The brother is special.

I said this, um, on I think Cam and Mace like maybe a few months ago, and maybe I brought it up here too, I think I did, where it's like one player in the league that you have the most confidence in coming back in a deficit Doesn't matter what their team is. I'm not talking about what team they're on. Yeah, it's Steph. It's Steph more than Shay, more than Jokic, more than Tatum, more than Brown. It's— and it's like really not particularly close.

Not at all. I'm taking my boy every time because like you say, this was a hopeless place that he found love last night. It was nothing going on. You could write them boys off and then guess what? W's in the chat. They still put the chain on my boy.

Go ahead.

Hey, hold on, I was jamming. Hey, we found our love. That's Steph Curry and Draymond postgame in the locker room dancing because boy, it was no hope. It was over with. Salute to Draymond for D'ing Kawhi up. I saw, uh, Shea Serrano on Twitter. He said this play-in game between the Warriors and the Suns, you should give, uh, Draymond and Dylan Brooks 9 fouls each, bro. No fouling out. Just let them boys go because this is about to be cinema.

Cinema. Cinema. Incredible. I want now the Warriors to get in just because I want 4 more games at least of Steph Curry trying his very best, and he left the game due to injury at one point and came back and did all that. I don't know what you do with— I think, Lo, and I want to get your thoughts, like, these type of performances at this age in this hopeless place, I feel like put him even higher on the greatest players of all time list?

Yeah, I think so, bro. Especially when he doing it in the Kobes, because it was— it was— bro, I feel like if, if Steph Curry had cooler shoes throughout his career, we would look at him like Batman. It's just that he been playing them orthopedic— salutes, Under Armor. Hey, I love you. If you want to throw some sponsorships my way, I'll be wearing the Steph Currys myself. But at the same time, that talent is so great that I couldn't imagine him having a cool shoe the entire time. He's doing it now in cool shoes and it just feels different. You saw last night after he hit the shot, he stomped, almost twisted his damn ankle. Guess what? Kobe had him from above. He didn't twist it. Kobe said, if there— but if there was some damn Under Armor, you bet your bottom dollar my boy's patella tendon was the fuck out of here.

Kobe's coming from the dead like God pulling his ligament back together. It's such a funny visual. Here you go.

Yep, I got you, I got you, goat. But yeah, bro, did you see CP3 though take to IG after the Clippers lost? Bruh, Chris Paul, I wasn't familiar with your game. I didn't know you was this hilarious. But this is exactly the picture you supposed Bro, these folks, them folks cut this man in the middle of the season. This is the— can I say this? Am I thinking— this is the greatest Clipper of all time, damn near. Am I tripping by saying that?

Oh, I think that's— I think you're right.

If you think about it, if you squint, and they cut my boy mid-season, no explanation, kind of tarnished his name a little bit. And my boy say, yeah, I'm just here to make sure that y'all dead, basically. Get the Clippers out of here, bro. That's what a season, man. What a season.

Well, and, and Juju, before we talk about my Blazers, who we cannot forget—

cannot, no, no—

now the Clippers owe their lottery pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder and have a 7% chance of getting a top 4 pick that could then go to Oklahoma City.

Sam Presti, you son of a bitch.

I don't know what to make of this. Like, it's horrendous. It is a horrendous scenario for Clipper fans. But, but, There is some good news.

Okay, what is the good news?

Is that Danny Abdia— oh, I have been telling casual fans for over a year now, I even reposted the video— Danny Abdia is like really on the map now.

He is, bro.

He's finally— when the street rocks with you. I watched that game, the end of the game with Cam and Mace.

Yeah.

And they were like, oh, I'm a Danny fan now.

There it is.

When he went up strong and had the and-1 that didn't get fouled, and he was like, that's it, that's, that's an and-1, right? Like, okay. And then he And then the clear out. Hey, watch out, everybody, get away from me, I am about to cook. He goes through, slices through 3 defenders and one, wins the game. 14 points in the 4th quarter. One of the greatest— literally, this is one, even if it's a play-in game, one of the greatest Blazer moments because the whole world was watching. There was nothing else for you to see. Except for Denny outshine Devin Booker on that stage, bro.

And then Jordan Goodwin— Jordan Goodwin, who you say had to go through— I didn't mean to cut you off. Jordan Goodwin may as well been Casper the Friendly Ghost. Denny was not looking at him. He was looking at his— the weight distribution on his feet. Once he saw that shit on that leg, he was like, then like, oh, you're out of here, to the hole. Got fouled instantly, got fouled again, and one, hooping the harm. And then my favorite part of it, I see this going on, I'm about to let off the loudest roar and I'm gonna flex on whatever kid is looking at me right now from the front row. Yeah, but I was so pumped up when Danny went crazy the other night, bro, because like you say, the world don't know. For some reason they be sleeping because them boys, they'd be playing at 1 o'clock in the morning, they literally be sleeping. Right, right. So yeah, do you think— hey, now the Blazers got the, uh, the Spurs. Do you think they could get a couple games? How do you think that's gonna go?

The one disappointment I have with coming to Miami next week is that I don't get to see Game 3 in person in Portland. Very, very disappointed I don't get 2 Wemby games. Like, very, very disappointed. Yeah, but what I will say, I think we can get one. Okay, I think we can get one. But what I'm gonna say this about Denny, because I want to bring it back to Denny as a guy and as a player. Yeah, I think he's like a— his upside is a top 10 player in the league. I think he's— his upside is second team All-NBA. Like, he may make third team All-NBA this year. Yeah, and he's making $11 million a year. I think he is— his comp is like a, uh, and this sounds crazy, but like, you watched him, so, and people saw this. Yeah, he's like a, a skinnier, more in shape, better defending Luka, bruh.

I was hoping you didn't say Luka because I was about to say, and you know who he remind me of? A skinny Luka. That's how you know we're here. You, bro, right, bruh, because he'll slow motion you until he see what— like I say, what Goodwin on that last play, bruh. I see you, I'm just waiting for you to do that one thing that I'm waiting for, for your foot to do.

Up!

Got him. And that's how Luka plays. Luka plays so calculated that no matter what you do, you're on a damn island when he makes up his mind on what he's going to do. So you're right, bruh, he is that, and he's, and he's a bit faster. Yeah.

And uses— you know, the thing that I don't love about Shea is how he draws fouls. Yeah. Like, I don't like the forearm push.

Yeah.

My guy Denny goes down downhill, he's not pushing anybody, but that shoulder is—

uh-huh—

oh, there's getting into you. He could probably get fouled every time he goes. You're— he's unstoppable. He's un— he's unbreakable speed.

Come on, man. Me doing this just reminded me, Jey Uso, I promise to God, you better stay away from me, bro, because I promise you— I see. Hey, but yeah, bro, bro, I think Denny— more respect has to be put on Denny's name no matter what now, because like you said, he can— you could try to avoid Denny whenever it's coming on at 12 midnight and they're playing the damn jazz again, but now against Devin Booker with the house on the line on primetime TV. Let's do this. And now I think he definitely has the respect of America. He go to the line different than Shay get to the line because it's certain times where you be like, damn, ref, you should have called that and didn't. Like you say, at the end of regulation, he almost got a technical foul after he made the shot.

No, no. And shout out to Drew for pulling him back. He's his get-back guy. Yeah, you know what I mean? He's like, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, we gotta stop. And, and low-key, he baited, um, Dylan Brooks into that foul on the technical as he's sitting on the bench. So like, I think Denny actually is not a foul baiter. I actually think he gets fouled more than they call it. Yeah, I know I'm glazing, but I'm so excited.

Nah, you deserve to. This is the playoffs. You could— if this was a regular season game, yeah, you're glazing, bro. Was in the playoffs. No, he's done it now under the bright lights.

And now he's a 17th seed. It was win, win and in, which is—

it was down, it wasn't like they was down, uh, a couple minutes left, right?

Go! Came into the studio and he was like, ah, hey, you see, this is what I'm talking about. Ah, you guys are nervous. Guess what? I was talking all that shit, put my glasses on, Let them know it's time for my Blazers, and it's time for some videos.

It is time for some videos. But before we get to that, uh, Dan Van Man from Twitter, he's a— I think he's a Raptors fan because, you know, we kind of besmirched the Raptors last week. So he says, I was finally trying out the alley-oop and then you told me my team, the biggest fan base in the NBA, and sure the show has lots of Canadians as listeners, A great young team overreaching story against the Cavs. They swept. WTF. And you know what, Dan the Van Man, you right, bro. Sorry about that. We'll talk about the Raptors one day, but not today. We got a video, one video from the courtside. If you gonna be courtside at these games, you're gonna have to get off your phone and pay attention. Exhibit A. My sister was sitting courtside on her phone. I don't know if she was checking her Anytime Minutes or her Twitter.

Look what happened to my crazy— what?

Look what happened when you don't keep your head on a swivel courtside.

Bink, bow, bro.

That shit ricocheted off her head.

Dylan, you're really getting good at this video stuff.

Oh yeah, bow, bow, bow, bow, gorilla style, bro. You keep your head on a swivel, you sitting courtside. Has that ever happened to you?

Can I ask a question, Juju? Yeah, those seats are expensive, no?

See, how much do they—

how much do you think a seat like that costs at a play-in game?

A play-in game? Now it wasn't— the stat of the day the other day, the stat of the day the other day was the get-in price was $26 to that game. And the parking was $30. So there's hilarious shit going on in Philly, but that courtside ain't never discounted. I'm pretty sure that was a couple of thousand. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go at least 4 or 5, 4 or 5 bands.

4 or 5 bands. Yeah. If you spend that, what the hell are you doing on your cell phone, bruh? If I'm right there, I don't have a phone. My phone does not exist. Unless it's to film what I am seeing 10 times on the, on the damn hardwood.

I always feel goofy pulling out my phone because I be right— it's like I'm in it. So it's like you pull out your phone, I feel like everybody look at you. Oh, look at it, he got his phone out, y'all.

He brand new. Juju's acting brand new on the court side. Look at them, look at them. I think she's trying to act cool like, oh, this ain't no big deal, I'm just gonna scroll.

Right, he bought me to the game as if I give up. He thinks this gets him out of the dog.

He's, he's not getting a morsel of taco after that.

Absolutely not. You know she is on all the BS after this game. Oh, I need some ice. Oh, I told you I didn't want to go to this damn game. You got me embarrassed on national TV.

Oh, like, bruh, her friends probably texted the hell out of her, probably spammed her.

Whoever threw that bottle, show spam their ass too. Salute, man. Well, that's gonna do it for another episode of the Alley Up. And thank you so much as always to our brother, the distinguished Dylan, as well as our sister, Miss Rebecca Donahue. In a League of Her Own, go watch the movie right now if you haven't. Any last words, my sister, on the way out of here?

Go Blazers! Let's figure out a way to counteract whatever Wemby's on, uh, and let's see if Denny can, can come after Dylan Harper and Steph. I mean, it's gonna be one hell of a matchup. It's gonna be one hell of a matchup for sure, man.

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