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THE STERLING AFFAIRS Part 1: That Tape

30 for 30 Podcasts

ESPN

Sports

4.59.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A domestic battle boils over and sends the NBA into crisis when secretly recorded tapes of Donald Sterling and his mistress V. Stiviano leak on TMZ. The Sterling Affairs is hosted by Ramona Shelburne. Produced by 30 for 30 Podcasts and The Undefeated in collaboration with Western Sound. More at 30for30podcasts.com/sterling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From ESPN, you're listening to 30 for 30 podcasts.

0:04.1

My name is Jody Avergan.

0:06.3

Welcome to our fifth season of original audio documentaries.

0:09.6

As we've done before, we're devoting the entire season

0:12.0

to one story it's told over five parts.

0:15.5

It's about a scandal that rock the NBA

0:17.7

and tells us a lot about how power, race, and celebrity

0:21.0

intersect in modern sports.

0:23.2

For this season, we're excited to work

0:25.0

with ESPN's Ramona Shelburn, one of our top NBA reporters,

0:28.6

an LA native and someone who's been covering this story

0:31.3

from the moment it broke.

0:32.8

Ramona is your host for all five episodes.

0:36.0

The quick word of warning, this season

0:37.6

contains mature subject matter and language.

0:41.0

And now, coming up after the break from 30 for 30

0:43.8

and the undefeated, the Sterling Affairs.

0:46.5

Shally's sterling thought she was just going to return some clothes

0:59.2

to Neiman Marcus when she got in her Mercedes-Benz station wagon

1:03.0

and made the drive from Malibu to Beverly Hills.

1:06.3

It was early in the spring of 2014.

1:09.1

And even though Shally was almost 80 years old,

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