This week, FX’s Clipped miniseries premiered. The series focuses on the downfall of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
Sterling was banned from the NBA and forced to sell the team in 2014 after recordings of him making racist remarks surfaced while the team was facing the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the playoffs.
Point guard Chris Paul played for the Clippers from 2011-17 and had a front-row seat to Sterling’s scandal. On Thursday, on The Pat McAfee Show, Paul discussed the miniseries’ first episode and how he wasn’t a fan of it.
"Me and my wife watched the first episode of that Clipped show and there was some things that never happened..
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“Me and my wife watched the first episode, and it was kind of cringey,” Paul said. “Honestly, you’ve got somebody telling their vantage point. Just one perspective. I saw my wife kicking it with Donald Sterling’s wife [in the episode], and I was like. ‘What? That never happened!”
Paul said he still talks to former Clippers teammates DeAndre Jordan, Blake Griffin, and JJ Redick regularly. While he has no idea what’s going to end up on the show, he noted, “We lived it, and we sort of know the real story.”
McAfee said he felt something similar while watching HBO’s Winning Time, a series dedicated to the highs and lows of the 1980s ‘Showtime’ Los Angeles Lakers.
“It was like, oh, I’m watching a documentary right now of what happened. Then, every person portrayed said, ‘That’s not how it happened.”
Paul felt something similar while watching Clipped’s pilot, which featured a “white party” at Sterling’s house, which the point guard said never happened.
