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How Clipped Dramatized the Facts to Expose the Truth
Showrunner Gina Welch on filling in the narrative gaps of the Donald Sterling affair “in a way that implicated the viewer.”
The six-episode limited series concluded July 2 and was adapted by Welch from The Sterling Affairs, an ESPN 30 for 30 podcast about how the Clippers, led by coach Doc Rivers, navigated the 2014 playoffs after voice recordings confirmed that the guy who paid their salaries was prejudiced against Black people. We wanted someone who was more or less at Doc’s station in life, who didn’t work in sports but occupied a similar place in the public imagination in terms of being a safe Black celebrity white people felt comfortable around. The reason we go from that idea in Doc’s storyline to episode four, the flashback to the moment he’s playing for the Clippers in 1992 and has his own anger roiling and gets the advice from his father to hide it, is to give context for the long history of that point of view.
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