‘Clipped’ trailer takes you inside one of the NBA’s wildest scandals [Watch]

Liam Mathews
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Ten years ago today, TMZ published an audio recording of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling saying racist things surreptitiously captured by his mistress, V. Stiviano. The recording led to his downfall, and changed the NBA forever. 

If you’re not a basketball fan, you might not remember the story. But FX’s limited series “Clipped,” which just got its first trailer today, makes a case for the Donald Sterling saga as a “People v. O.J. Simpson”-style story about race, class, power, and that unique corner of America known as Los Angeles. 

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Per FX, “Clipped” “charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.”

“Clipped” stars Ed O’Neill as Sterling, a man who made his fortune building an L.A. real estate empire; Laurence Fishburne as Clippers coach Doc Rivers, who joins the team and is immediately thrust into an uncomfortable position; Jacki Weaver as Sterling’s wife and business partner Shelly Sterling, who is tough as nails but is pushed to her limit; and Cleopatra Coleman as Sterling’s mistress V. Stiviano, whose vapid exterior is cover for a shrewd mind. The cast also features Kelly AuCoin, best known as famously bald banker “Dollar Bill” Wirtz on “Billions,” as a Sterling employee with a full head of hair. 

The limited series is based on an acclaimed ESPN podcast called “The Sterling Affairs,” and was created by Gina Welch, who serves as executive producer and showrunner. Other EPs include “American Crime Story” Emmy winners Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, Zanne Devine, ESPN reporter Ramona Shelburne, and Kevin Bray, who directed three of the six episodes. 

“Clipped” premieres Tuesday, June 4 exclusively on Hulu.

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