The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Alley Oop 135 | Major Trail Blazers Win, Lakers Dominating, & Cooper Flagg Struggles + The Wild Airline Video Everyone’s Talking About!
07 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What major upset did the Portland Trail Blazers achieve this week?
I cannot believe, Juju, you have the gall to wear a, not just a Celtics jersey, which we know you're a Celtics fan, but to wear a Juice Jalen Brown jersey on the heels of him getting another head smudge onto some other grown man's jersey. Listen, Jalen Brown is your brother in Christ. And even when, because I know that's pretty much all your brothers are brothers in Christ.
Anybody who would rep a man after his lowest low, actually, I take that back. That's a true ride or die.
There we are.
That's a true ride or die.
As a matter of fact, let me make sure I hang on to this while we say this topic as well because this did happen. People like to act like this didn't happen just because for some reason. This happened. This happening, but at the same time, my brother did have another.
Is that a T? Is that like, this is happening, this is happening.
This is happening, T is happening. But my brother did have another smudge that was heard around the world again. Miss Rebecca, you had it queued up. I took too long. But yeah, man. Against the Washington Wizards last night, my brother smudged another one. And I think I'm turning a corner on this. Take it away, Miss Rebecca. Ah, damn. Yep, drives to the hold.
Drives to the hold. Is that Keyshawn George? Yeah, it is. You got Keyshawn George. By the way, Keyshawn George, you're asking for it because you're wearing a T-shirt underneath your jersey. Is that what you were about to say?
Nah, I think, look, I have turned the corner on this completely. I was feeling sad and kind of like, damn, my boy going through this right now. But now, I think I like the Smudge Nation, bro. Smudge Nation, stand up. Look, if you're going to call yourself Garden Jalen Brown, go ahead. Hey, you better wear your unsmudgeable jersey because I'm smudging shit, bro. Like, I'm sorry. I like it.
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Chapter 2: Why are the Lakers dominating this season?
Everyone will have been tea for us to be talking about. So, Juju, you know what? Go ahead and ride for your guy, Jalen Brown Juice. Let him know that no matter what, when he feels like he's at his lowest and we all are just besmirching his hairline, that you have his back.
I got my boy back. Look, also, too, this is a story I don't tell too many people, but only like four people know this. Me, Jalen Brown, my homegirl, KK, and my girlfriend. I know this. Remember, think back. It was a cold night in Indianapolis, and the All-Star Game was happening that weekend. And my boy, Jay Bizzle, he went out and had a dunk contest that wasn't necessarily awesome. No.
To the public. It was not. You feel me? After that, though, he was hanging out around the arena, and I pulled up on my boy. I said, look, bro, don't worry about none of this. This don't matter. Folk bullying you, boy, they crazy as hell. They're going to be sad when you win that championship this year and you the finals MVP. That conversation happened right before my boy became the finals MVP.
That's why it meant so much to me. I talked to my boy at his lowest day. I said, look, remember this face right here when you holding that trophy. And I know my boy do. Salute. Moving on. The Lakers.
The Lakers.
Look, the Lakers looking awesome right now. They handled the Spurs last night in a good comeback win, you feel me? Down Austin Reeves. Already down LeBron James. Still found a way behind 77, a.k.a. Luka Vandross.
That's a good one. Luka Vandross is a good one.
Yeah, I got to give credit to my sister, Katie Nolan, for that one. That's not my word.
She said she wants some Marvin Gaye, some Luca Vandross, a little LeBron, and let this put this party off right. What it be?
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Chapter 3: What challenges is Cooper Flagg facing in his recent games?
Alabama, Alabama, Larry Bird.
Come on, wait a second. You buried the lead. I ain't even seen a big dog back there. Come on, man. We clocking T, man. Come on, bruh. That one's for you, Juju. Yes, sir, man.
So you got multiple games without these shot makers, these creators, these bucket getters.
Mm-hmm. BGs.
And what is their record? They're 7-2 right now? 7-2. You've played a pretty difficult-ass schedule. Mm-hmm. You had nobody when you played the Blazers. You were 9.5-point underdogs, and you smacked them up. Mm-hmm. On the road. I f***ed. I hate even saying all this. I hate the Lakers so much. But they really do look good. You got Jackson Hayes over there looking like he's, I don't know, Hakeem.
You got him going up for loss.
Okay, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, no, he's not looking like Hakeem. Okay, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Let's bring it back.
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Chapter 4: What viral airline video has everyone talking?
All that to say, the Lakers do look formidable offensively at least. Their defense is probably not going to be great. But they can come back on anybody from 20 down.
Yeah, bro. It's looking scary because, like you said, that's not even kind of close to their best effort just yet. And breaking news, LeBron James just said that he is, well, the people just said that LeBron James has been cleared for physical contact, full contact. You did. He's been cleared to come back now. My boy done seen enough. He like, look, them boys seven and two without me right now.
I done got all my fits off that I wanted to get off for real. My son, Jersey, my other son, got two points. I think I'm ready to come back. He saw that Luka step through two defenders last night. He was like, bro, I'm coming back tomorrow. No questions asked. But salute to the Lakers. But I think we buried the lead right now.
How dare I start this show without giving my sister's team just as much as I'm giving my team right now. The Portland Trailblazers slayed the dragon. They are the first to say the first to say this year and beat the Thunder. Take it away, Miss Rebecca. That's right. Come on, man. Look, got the job done with T.I. Ghost Planner at the helm, man. Gatom, folks, they first lost.
16 games in a row my team has lost to the Thunder. That's tough.
Come on, man. You got the runway right now, sis. Go ahead. Take it away.
We ended up coming home after an embarrassing, well, not coming home, staying home. We should have gone home on Monday night when this team played against the Lakers. And like I said, Nick Smith looking over here like Steve Smith, putting the team on his back with 25 points. Okay, so I'm like, all right, if we can't, muster something up against these Lakers without anybody playing.
What is going on? Why are we four and a half point underdogs only to the defending champs that just beat the shit out of the Clippers? I was like, this is just not going to, I'm going to go to the game, but I don't think it's going to go well for us. And then instantaneously we're down 20. Instantaneously. I'm like, okay.
And I'm looking over, my guy Justin Verrier from the Ringers sitting next to me, which shockingly he lives in Portland now. So we got a couple of national smack talkers over here at the media table looking at each other like, you know, this Blazers team might actually not be very good.
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