How The Sterling Affairs Became Clipped

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4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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The 30 for 30 Podcast, The Sterling Affairs, is turning into a TV show! It’s called Clipped. It starts airing on FX and Hulu on Tuesday, June 4. In anticipation of Clipped, we’re re-releasing The Sterling Affairs. If you’re new, check it out. If you’ve already heard the series, stick around. We have a brand new, never-been-aired bonus episode coming out on Friday, May 31. Finally, we’re releasing a Sterling Affairs spinoff podcast, Let’s Talk Clipped. Ramona Shelburne, host of the original series, will sit down with the cast and crew of Clipped in engaging, spoiler-filled conversations that follow along with the TV show. First episode drops Tuesday, June 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi 30 podcast
0:01.5	Podcast listeners. I'm Ramona Shelburne, senior writer at ESPN covering the
0:05.0	MBA. I'm also the host of the 3430 podcast, The Sterling Affairs.
0:10.1	We made the Sterling Affairs five years ago back in 2019.
0:14.0	It was all about the head spinning rise and fall of the former Los Angeles clippers owner
0:18.0	Donald Sterling.
0:19.0	He was one of the most powerful men in LA, until he wasn't. His then assistant Visteviano
0:25.8	caught him on tape in the middle of a racist tirade. T.M. Z. released that tape and
0:30.4	suffice to say the league has never been the same.
0:34.0	This story has always felt larger than life.
0:37.0	And now it is because FX has turned the Sterling Affairs into a TV series. The six episode sports drama is
0:45.4	based on the 3430 podcast and the real events surrounding the fall of
0:49.0	Donald Sterling. It's called Clipped and it starts airing on FX and Hulu Tuesday June 4th.
0:55.0	It was a surreal experience being on set watching actors bring my reporting and this iconic NBA story to life.
1:03.3	I'll never forget the first time I saw Lawrence Fishburn transform into Dock Rivers.
1:07.8	Sitting in hair and makeup where they spent 30 minutes getting that straight edge across the
1:11.3	top of his forehead just right.
1:14.2	So in anticipation of this new show, we're re-releasing the Sterling Fairs, the series that
1:18.9	started at all.
1:20.2	Over the next week, we'll be dropping the original episodes in our feet.
1:23.6	If you're new here and this story sounds up your alley,
1:26.0	give it a listen.
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