{"id":51534,"date":"2024-06-07T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/clipped-how-donald-sterlings-exit-changed-the-nba-forever\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:11:57","slug":"clipped-how-donald-sterlings-exit-changed-the-nba-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/clipped-how-donald-sterlings-exit-changed-the-nba-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Clipped<\/em>: How Donald Sterling\u2019s Exit Changed the NBA Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athletes wield more power and influence over their careers than ever before. In the modern NBA, basketball players are empowered to fight for fair contracts and encouraged to support social movements that confront racism and discrimination. But that wasn\u2019t always the case. Just a decade ago, a scandal rocked the entire league\u2014and changed everything.It all started in 2014, when TMZ Sports obtained a leaked audio recording between Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his mistress, V. Stiviano. Over the nearly ten-minute tape, Sterling rants and berates Stiviano for taking a photo with Magic Johnson and posting it on Instagram. \u201cIt bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you\u2019re associating with Black people,\u201d he says.Sterling\u2019s comments shocked the sports world, and protests erupted across the NBA soon after. In a now-famous quote, LeBron James declared, \u201cThere\u2019s no place for Donald Sterling in our league.\u201d Though the NBA star wasn\u2019t usually one to get political, his statement\u2014among others from Shaquille O\u2019Neal, Stephen A. Smith, DeAndre Jordan, Magic Johnson, and more\u2014ushered in a new era for the sport. NBA commissioner Adam Silver used his own power to ban Sterling from the league for life.The scandal is now the focus of a dramatized miniseries on Hulu titled Clipped, starring Ed O\u2019Neill as Sterling and Laurence Fishburne as then\u2013Clippers head coach Doc Rivers. It\u2019s based on the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast series The Sterling Affairs, hosted by NBA insider Ramona Shelburne. Back in 2019, Shelburne told Esquire that she \u201cdidn\u2019t… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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Athletes wield more power and influence over their careers than ever before. In the modern NBA, basketball players are empowered to fight for fair contracts and encouraged to support social movements that confront racism and discrimination. But that wasn\u2019t always the case. 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