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Clipped Recap: From Side Piece to C-suite
Leaking your boss’s racist tirade to TMZ is not what Sheryl Sandberg meant when she said to “lean in,” but maybe it’ll work for V.
Meanwhile, in the lead-up to V. taking the fateful step of sending the notorious audio recording to TMZ, the Clippers are entering the Western Conference playoffs as the third seed, where they’re squaring off against the Golden State Warriors just before the Steph Curry/Klay Thompson/Draymond Green started winning NBA titles. In a funny exchange with others in the front office — while Sterling is blathering for an hour on speaker phone over subjects ranging from runner-turned-murderer Oscar Pistorius to Joe Piscopo (“He looks embalmed!”) — Doc talks about handing Chris Paul’s OCD tic of needing to do everything in threes and about J.J. Redick’s routine requiring a baked potato at 4:30 every afternoon. Baylor’s treatment under Sterling led to a 2009 wrongful termination suit that the courts eventually rejected, but his tenure involved major restrictions on his ability to make draft and free agent decisions, and his pay was never competitive with other general managers in the league.
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