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Are You a Los Angeles Clippers Fan? ‘Clipped’ Could Be Triggering


The FX limited series 'Clipped' is triggering for devoted fans of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA franchise.

Though he emerged perhaps the only heroic figure in a tale heavily laden with racism and sexism, the curse still eventually left its mark on him as he was never able to bring the Clippers the championship the team has never won in its 54-year history (Rivers was fired in 2020 and now coaches the Milwaukee Bucks). What makes matters worse is “Clipped” begs comparison with another recent, and frankly, better, retro b-ball drama in HBO’s “Winning Time” that found actors to inhabit truly unique, iconic basketball legends in Lakers stars Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and somehow did so superbly despite a much higher degree of difficulty (take a bow, Quincy Isaiah and Solomon Hughes). True, just about every vestige of the Sterling era has been wiped clean by the franchise’s current owner, former Microsoft leader Steve Ballmer, who has poured resources into the Clippers over the last decade to remake every facet of the team right down to a new arena, Intuit Dome, that will become operational later this year in Inglewood, Calif.

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