Ramona Shelburne Remembers the Sterling Affairs 10 Years Later

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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10 years ago this week, TMZ published bombshell recordings of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s private conversation with his mistress, V. Stiviano. Sterling’s racist and sexist dialogue captured the world’s attention, and less than a week later, new commissioner Adam Silver had banned him from the NBA for life, forcing a sale of the Clippers. Today ESPN senior NBA writer, Ramona Shelburne, who covered the story and hosted the 30 for 30 podcast, The Sterling Affairs: Takes us back through the events of the scandal, explains how it was a seminal moment in the NBA, and ahead of the release of the FX mini-series Clipped, and tells us what it was like transitioning from a reporter to a producer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ramona, we're sitting here together in Los Angeles, California.
0:04.0	Do you remember, though, where you were when you first learned that the girlfriend of then
0:09.0	Clipper's owner, Donald Sterling, had audio recordings that she was selling to
0:13.6	T.M. Z. I was in Portland, Oregon, covering the
0:17.1	Houston Rockets against the Portland Trail Blazers
0:19.8	in the first round of the playoffs.
0:21.0	Hardin, takes it inside, loses a basketball, Lynn gets it back, Lynn back outside, Troy Daniels
0:27.0	coming in, Troy Daniels hits the biggest three of his life.
0:34.0	What a cold-blooded shot by the rookie.
0:37.6	We had just got done with the game.
0:39.6	I think we were in post-game press conferences
0:41.9	and the news alert hit.
0:43.4	A nation transfixed by controversy.
0:48.9	Call it the tale of the tape.
0:51.0	One of Hollywood's richest moguls, the owner of the LA clippers, purported... the
0:53.0	owner of the LA clippers
0:54.0	purportedly caught making racist comments during a conversation
0:58.0	with this alleged ex-mistress.
1:00.0	People started showing to,
1:02.0	oh, have you seen this?
1:02.6	Have you seen this?
1:03.2	And then our news asks, we're like,
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