The show builds out Donald Sterling’s fall into a thoughtful examination of race and power in America
Even the most casual sports fans know the basics of the Donald Sterling tape scandal, when a recording leaked of the 79-year-old Clippers owner telling his 30-year-old girlfriend not to associate with Black people. The backlash led to a minor racial reckoning in the NBA , and even though the two events are intertwined, a “based on a true story” adaptation could easily focus on the sensationalism of the former without giving depth to the later. Thankfully, FX’s Clipped : The Scandalous Story Of L.
Though Stiviano and the Sterlings set the entire saga in motion, Clipped’s best scenes are the ones where the series thoughtfully takes the time to show how the Sterlings and Stiviano’s antics impact the people around them, from the Clippers’ players to folks in the executive suite. The pre-tape episode spends a fair amount of time introducing the most-central Clippers players, in scenes that draw the most direct comparison to HBO’s Lakers drama Winning Time.
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