'Clipped' shows why the Clippers didn't boycott after the Donald Sterling scandal erupted

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The actors, showrunner and writer of Episode 3 of 'Clipped' discuss the scene where the team debates whether to boycott a playoff game in protest of Donald Sterling and his racist comments.

For three decades, the Los Angeles Clippers were the NBA’s laughingstock, a poorly run team with a woeful record. But the team’s owner, Donald Sterling, was more than inept — it was a barely kept secret that he was a bigot, with lawsuits against him from the Department of Justice, for housing discrimination as a landlord, to basketball legend Elgin Baylor, for alleged mistreatment while a Clippers executive. Then in 2014, everything changed.

“Our early drafts felt too much like a debate, kind of like a ping-pong game with a pro argument, then a con argument, then the solution,” Welch says. “To feel realistic it needed to be driven by the emotions of the moment.” Making it sound “organic and not like an opinion page” required letting it get “messy,” Wilson says, with players’ views shifting as the scene wore on. “We wanted the audience to be off-balance too.

 

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