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Clipped Series-Premiere Recap: The Next Mrs. Sterling
Doc Rivers arrives to L.A. looking to turn the Clippers into a winning organization, but he has more off-court problems than he can handle.
The vanishingly small percentage of Los Angeles sports fans who are into the Clippers instead of the storied Lakers — the ones who have to tolerate getting outnumbered during home games in its shared arena — tend to have either great coping skills or sadomasochistic tendencies. In reality, the curse can be pinned on one man, Donald T. Sterling, who bought the team for a mere $12.5 million when it was still in San Diego (L.A. isn’t known for its great sailing ships) in 1981 and held onto it until 2014, when the new NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, banned him from the league in the wake of a racist audio recording. Doc is coming in with far more leverage than he had as a player, and the “Lob City” trio — future Hall-of-Famer Chris Paul (J. Alphonse Nicholson) at point guard, high-flying power forward Blake Griffin (Austin Scott), and hyper-athletic rim protector DeAndre Jordan (Sheldon Bailey) — would be one of the most formidable cores in the league.
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