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Clipped Recap: Silly Rabbit
The Clippers get past the Warriors, but they can’t escape the media.
The moment Silver brought the hammer down on Sterling — banning him for life, issuing the maximum $2.5 million fine, and, perhaps most strikingly, forcing a sale of the team — it felt at once surprising and correct, and his reputation as commissioner has benefitted from it ever since. Taking care of the problem would involve more than official statements, Instagram black-outs, and branded slogans like the Clippers’ “We Are One.” (The question over the “we” recalls a hilarious bit in Taxi Driver where Albert Brooks’ campaign operative wants to send back buttons that emphasize the “we” in “We Are The People.”) • “I knew he had something up his sleeve, but I didn’t think he’d go Jean Valjean.” While it’s possible, even likely, that former Clipper and newly minted Los Angeles Lakers coach J.J. Redick knows his Victor Hugo, a Les Misérables reference doesn’t sound like plausible locker-room talk.
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