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Alley Oop 144: LeBron’s MONSTER Dunk Goes Viral: What His Emotion Reveals | OKC Unstoppable? | Travel Calls Disappear & Bulls’ No-Return Moment
12 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What did LeBron's viral dunk reveal about his emotions?
I got a couple beats for our theme song soon and me and the kid if you haven't heard we're heading down to the M.I.A.O next week to be on the main she know you dig it and so I'm gonna show you a couple of them uh example tracks I got you feel me oh I love I love that
I love Miami. It is just one of, I cannot wait to go down for the main show. I'm a ceviche maniac. There's a restaurant called The Mandolin. I think it's too expensive for how much I get paid, but I've been wanting to go there for years. And guess what? I'm going to make a resi. No Hezzy. We've got a white elephant party on Wednesday.
Me and Juju are going to come with the alley show dot com promo. So you guys can start subscribing to our sub stack. We're here. It's up. It's so peak. It's peak like LeBron has never left. Juju. Oh, my God. Can we cut it to the tape?
Come on, man. All the way up, man. You got to know. And speaking of up, up right now on iTunes by the kid right now featuring Jay Nice. Check it out whenever you can in your free time. But neither here nor there. LeBron James is still doing LeBron James things. Now the Lakers were eliminated from the NBA Cup, the Emirates NBA Cup.
I couldn't hear you. What did you say?
The Emirates NBA Cup.
They were eliminated by the Wembley-less San Antonio Spurs. F you, Lakers. There's nothing I love more than Lakers just going down into the earth, besmirching their purple and gold names. Love it.
Yes, they got their behind kicked, too. Stephon Castle stepped up. Big Way, Fox crossed up. Austin Reeves. A lot of questionable things happened during this game on the defensive side of the ball for the Lakers. But for one play, and at least one play only, LeBron James turned back the clock yet again. Oops, I'm sorry. He stayed in the present yet again and dunked on my guy.
Luke Cornett, the green Cornett.
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Chapter 2: Are the OKC Thunder officially unstoppable this season?
I'm finna posterize the GOAT. You feel me?
And to say it even more effusive than that, if it was just an everyday dunk, if it was just like a regular Monday through Friday, I'm just doing this because I'm LeBron kind of dunk, he wouldn't have screamed in his face right after. He not only dunked on him, it was like the Lion King roar, Juju. It had a little extra energy to it. Miss Rebecca, play the clip.
Exactly, bruh. There it is right there, bruh. Look at my boy. Look how exciting it is to finally dunk on one of your heroes, Luke Cornett, man. Jackson, hey, bruh, you can get casted right now. I don't know if you trying to do some acting or whatever, bruh, but you look the part of a zombie from any zombie movie, but you look crazy as hell, man.
If you photoshopped LeBron out, you would think that Jackson Hayes did the dunk. Jackson Hayes up forward and you'd be like, damn, what Jackson Hayes do to Luke Cornett? Absolutely nothing. He's just there to co-sign the LeBron James scream.
To co-sign that, Mom's Making Pizza Rolls. You feel me? Love the video, Miss Rebecca. Look at him, man. Come on. Stall him out, LeBron. Stall him out. It's disrespectful. It's up if I'm Luke Cornette.
All right, pause it.
It's up if I'm Luke Cornette, bro.
Don't scream at me like this. First of all, I feel special that I got that treatment from LeBron because clearly he doesn't do that for anybody. But Luke Cornette is trying so hard to pretend like he doesn't see LeBron. He doesn't want to make eye contact because I think he's a little concerned and doesn't want to find out what happens if he does make eye contact with him.
It's almost like when you champion Luke Cornett.
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Chapter 3: Why are NBA refs calling fewer travels this season?
What the f*** is you looking at? You got a problem? Nope, no problem. Nope, nope. I wasn't looking at anything. Nope.
You know the videos when they be like, this is how you get out of this in the car if a robber. And then the seats go back too slow and they just end up in heaven. That's Luke Cornett. What are you guys? So I'm hopeful. Yes, I am. I'm hopeful for today. Luke Cornett in the sky.
No doubt. That entire dunk scream is that Faith Evans song.
Right. Speaking of Faith Evans songs, bro, I'll be missing who they beat yesterday. Whoever the Oklahoma City played, the Sun, the Phoenix Sun, man. I will be missing you, bro, because it was a 50-some points. It was not interesting. Most interesting time of that game is when the Suns cut it to like 12. I was like, ooh.
But Oklahoma City Thunder, bro, the way they're operating right now, the way – Shea ain't got to play no fourth quarter if he really just don't want to. Are these – I mean, I know I came on here last week and said, big whoop, do it in the playoffs. Big whoop. Whoop-dee-doo. They winning all these games. What, lost one game? Whoop-dee-doo is what I said last week.
But, man, this is looking quite impressive, sis. What you think about these boys?
Will they ever lose again? That's kind of the question that I have, and they're doing it with ease. The thing that makes it so hard to bet on Oklahoma City or against them is they could legitimately win by this amount.
against almost anyone just if they decide and they they were in a close one a little squeak went against the phoenix suns a few weeks ago and they were 15 point favorites again 15 and a half point favorites again and i was like well you can't call it if they play with their food which they can do and they sometimes do and they're within their right to do as they only have one loss and
All that matters is they're getting the dub and they've already proved it. But if they decide, no, no, we're going to make a statement. We're going to make you an example of what we can do when we decide to take over. then you're hopeless. Do you remember, Juju? I was thinking about how far the Oklahoma City Thunder have come.
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Chapter 4: What moment marked the point of no return for the Chicago Bulls?
That's a nail. I mean, I'm like waiting for them to maybe play the Nuggets.
I know who they don't want to play no more. It's the boys who they scared of for real. Your guys. Exactly. Come on now. Put some respect on their name. They could have beat them twice. They could have. But hey, neither here nor there. Moving on. I am sick and tired in this soft-ass NBA, this soft-ass 2025, whatever you want to call it.
Now, also, we get to take this extra pro step, pro hop, duke, gather step, whatever you want to call it.
Say gather one more time.
Get this out of my damn life, bruh. Well, let's see this. Let's see my boy Grayson Allen, this thought. Let's see what he was up to during this play.
You have Anthony Edwards. You're almost in the game.
Look at that. One, two, three.
Come on, man.
Hold on.
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Chapter 5: How did LeBron's performance impact the Lakers' season?
We should get the big, like, white anti-iPads. You know, the ones that they take to, like, the Capitol and they take photos on? Yep. And we should just show a video of illegal travels that we think need to be banned from the NBA. And then we should have a clipboard. You can have the iPad. I'll have the clipboard. And we'll take signatures to send in to Adam Silver. We vote.
We've all collectively decided you guys need to vote on this.
And while we're doing that, Miss Rebecca and Dylan can throw paint on their wolves and their fleeces, their quarter zips. Take that. You feel me? Come on, man. But... Moving on. Now, I got to go back to the past. That one got you fired up. Right, right, right, right. I was a little bit beside myself. But moving on, I got to go back to the past, man. Josh Giddey, ankle breaker.
I know it's from the past, and I wanted to bring it back up again today. Miss Rebecca, please throw this beautiful beam footage from the past. Where were you, you know? Payao. Holy decking. Now, I brought this up just to say this. That moment right there is when the Bulls season was broken, bruh. The Bulls had only lost two games at that point. They were like 9-2 or something.
They are now 3-12 since that moment happened. Wow. Come on, bruh. I want to ask my sister, did DeAndre Hunter break the Bulls?
I think the Bulls, to be honest, were broken. We just didn't know for sure that they were broken. How do we know that? Because every year there are 500 teams. That's just what they are. You can kind of just count on it. 40 wins, 42 wins, 39 wins.
It doesn't matter if they get the majority in the beginning of the season like they did this year or the majority in the end of the season like they did last year. We already know what time it is. Does the Josh Giddey injury... Does it add some hilarity to their misfortune? Yes.
Do I like to see my brothers and sisters look as uncoordinated as he did when he broke his own damn ankles playing defense? No, it hurts me for us to remain at least, I don't know, respectable in terms of playing defense against people. DeAndre Hunter's not even that good, to be honest.
Okay, see, I know you're just going to cross the line. Damn it.
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Chapter 6: What role does emotional expression play in sports performance?
The Jiffy Oil tune-up. Bruh, how does the besmircher? I bought this up for Josh Giddy and the Bulls. We found a way. Hold your horses, DeAndre Hunter. We're going to find a way to besmirch you. Look at him sipping the damn tea. That's the biggest cup of tea.
I like DeAndre Hunter just fine. Never mind the fact that a lot of people were hyping him out of Virginia and he hasn't really panned out and he is only a defensive guy. But that will remain on DeAndre Hunter's highlight tape is the moment that he broke the Bulls.
Moving on.
So I'm hopeful, hopeful, yes I am.
To a segment we like to call Boy, Stop, Man. Miss Rebecca, what do you have for us this week?
So what I got for you guys today is a little it's a tradition I found. It's a small school, Taylor University. And this is what they do. The entire school dresses up in costumes and they stay dead silent, dead silent until the 10th point is scored. And then I'm going to let you see what happens. And then I'll come back for more. Here we go.
That's hard.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my goodness. This is, bruh, I love this. This looks amazing.
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Chapter 7: Can the OKC Thunder maintain their winning streak?
That's the problem. That's the potential problem because hopefully everybody on the other team having a great week, you know, just figured out you failed two classes and it's your last game because it's before Christmas and you swing on this little – who is this? Joseph in the manger right here. Joseph might get clinked up. So who knows?
Stay safe. So it's boy go, Taylor.
boy go. Taylor, boy go as long as you can keep your balance.
Yep.
If you trip, boy stop.
Boy run. If you're tripping, boy run.
Thank y'all again, man, for tuning in to the Alley Oop, another great episode. Thank you as always to Miss Rebecca Donahue if you're nasty.
I think it's Becky if you're nasty.
Oh, is it Becky if you're nasty or is it Becca if you're nasty?
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