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‘Clipped’ Finale: Producers Talk Showing Donald Sterling Naked, Ending on the Ferguson Protests and Giving Elgin Baylor the Last Word
The producers of FX and Hulu's 'Clipped' discuss how the LA Clippers were sold and what happened to Doc Rivers, V. Stiviano and Donald Sterling.
With that, Donald also stops fighting against his lifetime ban from the NBA, imposed against him after TMZ publishes an audio recording of Sterling delivering a racist tirade to his assistant-mistress V. Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman) chastising her for publicly associating with Black people. And with the show’s final gesture toward the brewing Black Lives Matter movement, the producers wish to put the spectacle of Donald Sterling’s cancellation (a term that hadn’t entered the public lexicon at the time) into context as the beginnings of an American decade defined by political fragmentation. But the producers wanted to give the last word to Baylor — one of Sterling’s oldest and most abjectly treated victims (outside of who-knows-how-many individuals that suffered under his discriminatory practices as a property manager) and one of the few that publicly stood up against the billionaire even as the NBA closed ranks to protect the team owner.
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