If you happen to pay even the slightest consideration to skilled basketball, you have heard about former LA Clippers proprietor Donald Sterling — and the scandal that led to his lifetime ban from the NBA.

In 2014, through the Clippers’ playoff run, Sterling was caught on tape spewing racist remarks. The information blew open his marriage, drew consideration to his private assistant V. Stiviano, and revealed deep issues inside the Clippers group. In 2019, the scandal turned the topic of an ESPN 30 for 30 podcast titled The Sterling Affairs, reported and hosted by Ramona Shelburne. This summer season, 10 years after the tapes have been launched, The Sterling Affairs will get the small display therapy, coming to FX on Hulu because the six-episode miniseries Clipped.

“For a league that is majority Black, it is an essential story to re-live,” producer and co-writer Rembert Brown mentioned on the Tv Critics Affiliation (TCA) winter press tour. “For gamers, I really feel like there is a component of this that may be very relatable to a office drama. That is what it is prefer to be Black in a white house.”

What’s Clipped about?

Clipped takes us behind the scenes of the Clippers through the Sterling scandal, inspecting the marital and locker room drama that adopted.

Our entry level into the Clippers is new head coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne), a former Clippers participant and Boston Celtics coach trying to flip across the prospects of essentially the most cursed crew in basketball. Upon his arrival in LA, although, he discovers a corporation the place dysfunction is the norm. Donald Sterling (Ed O’Neill) is a racist bully who pits gamers in opposition to one another and who could not care much less about profitable. His marriage and enterprise partnership with spouse Shelly (Jacki Weaver) is crumbling, and his relationship with mistress V. Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman) is not far behind. He is a powder keg simply ready to blow, and the discharge of his racist remarks is the spark that lastly units him alight. 

With the NBA in disaster mode, and the web reacting in real-time to the scandal’s each new improvement, will Doc and the remainder of the Clippers see any significant change of their group?

“I believe it is an important story for the NBA, it is an actual turning level for the league,” showrunner Gina Welch mentioned at TCA.

Laurence Fishburne and Ed O’Neill set to carry Clipped‘s Doc Rivers and Donald Sterling to life.

Clipped stars a number of acquainted faces, together with Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, the John Wick franchise) as Doc Rivers. Fishburne revealed at TCA that he met Rivers in particular person and witnessed him and certainly one of his sports-loving pals arguing about basketball for hours.

“Simply observing the 2 of them go at it was all of the analysis I wanted to do for Doc,” Fishburne mentioned at TCA.

Becoming a member of Fishburne within the forged of Clipped is Ed O’Neill (Trendy Household, Married… with Kids) as Donald Sterling, Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook, Hi there Tomorrow!) as Shelly Sterling, and Cleopatra Coleman (Infinity Pool, The Final Man on Earth) as V. Stiviano. Different stars embrace J. Alphonse Nicholson, Kelly AuCoin, Wealthy Sommers, Corbin Bernsen, Clifton Davis, and Harriet Sansom Harris.

Gina Welch, who has written for Feud: Bette and Joan, Fort Rock, and Underneath the Banner of Heaven, serves as Clipped‘s showrunner, in addition to an government producer. Ramona Shelburne, Nina Jacobson, and Kevin Bray be part of her as government producers, with Bray additionally directing.

Clipped premieres June 4 on Hulu.