ACTOR ACTRESS ADAM ANDERSON ANDERSON_COOPER ANDY ANNEMARIE BARBARA_WALTERS BASKETBALL_CROWD BIG_BABY BLAKE CHRIS CLIPPERS CLIPPERS_FANS CREWMEMBERS DANIEL DAVID DEANDRE DOC DONALD DRAYMOND ELGIN FEMALE_AUTOMATED_PHONE_VOICE FEMALE_JUDGE FEMALE_MAKEUP_ARTIST FEMALE_OFFICE_WORKER_1 FEMALE_OFFICE_WORKER_2 FEMALE_OFFICE_WORKER_3 FEMALE_OFFICE_WORKER_4 FEMALE_REPORTER_1 FEMALE_REPORTER_2 FEMALE_REPORTER_3 FEMALE_TELEVISION_ANNOUNCER GARY GLENN JAMAL JARED JJ JUSTINE KIM_KARDASHIAN LEVAR_BURTON MAC MALE_AUTOMATED_PHONE_VOICE MALE_FAN MALE_OFFICE_WORKER MALE_ONCOLOGIST MALE_PASSERBY MALE_REPORTER_1 MALE_REPORTER_2 MALE_REPORTER_3 MALE_REPORTER_4 MALE_REPORTER_5 MALE_REPORTER_6 MALE_REPORTER_7 MALE_SPORTS_COMMENTATOR MALE_TELEVISION_ANNOUNCER MALE_TELEVISION_HOST MALE_WARRIORS_COACH MARTY MATT MEETING_CROWD MISS_MARKS OFFICE_CROWD PIERCE PROTESTERS RALPH_LAWLER REPORTERS SETH SHELLY SPORTS_CROWD STEPH TY VEE ACTOR I forgot to tell you! ACTRESS Call me when you get back. ADAM Hey Doc, I was just about to call you, give you an update on where we are in the investigation. ADAM After the release of an audio-audio recording of a conversation that allegedly included Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the Nba commenced an investigation. ADAM That investigation is now complete. ADAM The man whose voice is heard on the recording is Mr. Sterling and that the hateful opinions voiced by that man are those of Mr. Sterling. ADAM That they came from an Nba owner only heightens the damage and my personal outrage. Accordingly, effective immediately I am banning Mr. Sterling for life. ADAM From any association with the Clippers organization or the Nba. ADAM Mr. Sterling may not attend any Nba games... ADAM ...or practices. I am... ADAM ...also fining Mr. Sterling $2.5 million. ADAM The maximum amount allowed under the Nba constitution. ADAM As for Mr. Sterling's ownership interest in the Clippers, I will urge the Board of Governors to force a sale. ADAM And I will do everything in my power to ensure that that happens... ADAM It's not an option. ADAM The Clippers are owned by the Sterling Family Trust. Shelly and Donald are one unit. ADAM California law considers you one unit. Your marital status suggests you're one unit. ADAM I did. ADAM Shelly, you really want me to believe that you're getting a divorce? Now, suddenly after 60 years, you can't live with the man? ADAM I've already scheduled a date for the Board of Owners to vote on forcing the sale of the team. ADAM You're accusing me of sexism? ADAM This is ridiculous. I will not engage in a hypothetical. ADAM If you can do it in 10 days. Otherwise, we sell it at auction. ADAM Diane, can you get that papered? All right, we gotta go. ANDERSON COOPER Do you think he's racist? ANDERSON COOPER What would he say? ANDERSON COOPER So while the guys are naked or half naked? ANDERSON COOPER/ELGIN ANDY Hmm. ANDY There's nothing to do. ANDY Fight? The commissioner of the Nba? ANDY Oh, I-- No, I didn't do nothing. I-- That's a double negative. ANDY I did something. ANDY I took it to Donald, and he told me to do nothing. ANDY Yeah. ANDY ANDY Seth! Hey, uh, we need to use your communication savvy for an hour, mas o menos. ANDY Uh, how about... you didn't like the apology we issued last weekend. ANDY So, how about draft one yourself? ANDY I have a contact at the Post. ANDY Yeah, he is in remission, uh, thank God, but... Has he had his prostate removed? Uh, the-the-the point is, um, as you can imagine, the, uh, with the stress and the, um, uh, uncertainty and the, uh, medication and all that a-- that a cancer diagnosis entails, uh, Mr. Sterling really hasn't been himself over the last two years. ANDY Uh, he's been very vulnerable. Right. Uh, send me a link when it's live. ANDY Well, people need to remember that he's a human being. ANDY Uh, Andy Roeser. Adam. Hi, how are you? I-I did see about the-the ban. Um, uh, pretty decisive, uh... decision. Uh, but, uh, it-it was a powerful... Um, i-it was the right-- No, I-I, I haven't spoken with him, but I can? Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, I-I understand. Sounds good. Bye-bye. ANDY Um, some concern about Mr. Sterling trying to run the organization in absentia as it were. Um, because of-of our close relationship, they have put me on leave indefinitely, which is more like termination. ANNEMARIE You have a 10 o'clock with Alvin. ANNEMARIE Did you meditate today? ANNEMARIE ANNEMARIE From ABC News: How do you feel about the possibility that the Clippers fans will boycott the games until Sterling is removed? BARBARA WALTERS So, Kim, you first came to public attention in 2007 with a sex tape and you became famous. So, was it a good thing to have done looking back? BARBARA WALTERS Thank you. Okay... BARBARA WALTERS Donald, I'm Barbara. Thank you for allowing me-- BARBARA WALTERS Uh, thank you, V. BARBARA WALTERS I'm so looking forward to our conversation. BARBARA WALTERS Yes. We had trouble confirming with his representative. BARBARA WALTERS Well... what do we do, Marty? BARBARA WALTERS Miss Stiviano, is that all right with you if I talk with you alone? BARBARA WALTERS BARBARA WALTERS What is Donald Sterling's state of mind right now? BARBARA WALTERS You say that Donald Sterling is emotionally traumatized. From what? BARBARA WALTERS Do you think that Donald Sterling should apologize? BARBARA WALTERS Will he apologize? BARBARA WALTERS Can you tell me what your relationship with Donald Sterling is? BARBARA WALTERS His what? BARBARA WALTERS His silly rabbit? BARBARA WALTERS Is that what he calls you? BARBARA WALTERS Are you in love with Donald Sterling? BARBARA WALTERS You love him, what, like a friend? Or romance? BARBARA WALTERS Do you and Donald Sterling have a financial arrangement? BARBARA WALTERS Off the books. Donald Sterling is in his eighties. You're in your thirties. I'm not sure I understand the relationship. BARBARA WALTERS Is Donald Sterling a racist? BARBARA WALTERS Have you heard him say derogatory things about Blacks in general? BARBARA WALTERS Mrs. Sterling. BARBARA WALTERS Thank you for choosing me for your first interview. A little rough outside, I know. This is my hideaway. My competition would be all over you if they knew we were meeting. I guess you watched my interview with V. BARBARA WALTERS You said it, not me. Oh, your jacket. Oh, it's so many fabulous textures. Who makes it? BARBARA WALTERS BARBARA WALTERS Do you support the Nba decision to ban your husband? BARBARA WALTERS You and your husband were high school sweethearts. BARBARA WALTERS You've been married for 60 years. Do you like your husband? BARBARA WALTERS What is your relationship today? BARBARA WALTERS Why not divorce? BARBARA WALTERS What was the last straw that made you say after all these years, "I'm outta here?" BARBARA WALTERS She says she never made any racist statements. She said, "I have no fear. I'm not a racist." And she wants to hang onto that team. Take a look. BARBARA WALTERS What do you think of V Stiviano? BARBARA WALTERS I think you answered my question. BARBARA WALTERS Shelly and Donald Sterling were high school sweethearts, and have shared a life together ever since, but it hasn't always been easy. BARBARA WALTERS How are you? We talk about your husband. It's a mess. How are you? BARBARA WALTERS You'll be strong to do what? BASKETBALL CROWD BIG BABY Where'd all this black merch come from? BIG BABY Are we at a Metallica concert or something? BLAKE I'm not the one who needs to hear I was right all the time. BLAKE But when I am, I am. Big time. Like, you're probably thinking, "My God, I am so glad Blake pushed us to play Game Four because I, DeAndre Jordan, just put up the game of my life." BLAKE BLAKE Okay, but does his reasons matter though? Like, did Angelina Jolie become a humanitarian because she cared or because she wanted to look good after she stole Jennifer Aniston's man? BLAKE Either way, she's helping people. BLAKE We are one, baby. DEANDRE We are one, baby. CHRIS You on your minimalist thing? CHRIS Oh, nice. Jada does all our decorating. She'll change your life with the right throw pillow. CHRIS Damn, whole city's down there. But you know, you don't got no yard, no grill, or-- CHRIS I guess I just realized you up here all alone. I heard you went down to Flower Street for the front office workers. That's dope of you. CHRIS You see it's gon' be a protest at City Hall tomorrow? Kareem's gonna be there, Al Sharpton. And tomorrow's the anniversary of the L.A. riots. CHRIS The Clippers, we just threw our shirts on the floor. CHRIS Maybe it is outside voices, but you know, some of the guys don't feel good that we decided to play. CHRIS And like you said, if we would've won in spite of everything, it would've meant something, but we lost. What if we just keep losing? CHRIS Seems like we're gon' lose. CHRIS CHRIS You know, my pops put his 401k into basketball camps for me. I wouldn't have let him unless I knew for sure I'd be a champion. CHRIS Technically, he does. We win a trophy; they hand it to the owner first. You know, Steph called me. The Warriors are gonna walk off the court tomorrow after the tip-off. The other teams are boycotting, too. So now even if we do boycott, it's weak. We didn't have the guts to do it first. CHRIS I'm just talking about how it feels, Coach. Anyway, we're not playing. CHRIS Well, we're gon' play sometime. CHRIS No, not at all. CHRIS Boy, Donald Sterling got banned like Styrofoam cups. CHRIS You gotta Google. It was racist. CHRIS Yeah, she committed. CHRIS I don't see you back there! Hey, hey, hey. It's hella quiet in there. CHRIS Ain't that what they say in Oakland? Hella? CHRIS Hello? Y'all having a funeral for y'all season? Damn. Good game, Steph. CHRIS Oh, my self-respect feel pretty good after whooping your ass. CHRIS Yeah. CHRIS What? CHRIS Yo, hold up. Man, shut your dumb ass up. We was gonna boycott with you, remember? CHRIS Sore loser about to catch a sore jaw if he keep doing all that yapping. CHRIS CHRIS CLIPPERS CLIPPERS CLIPPERS CLIPPERS CLIPPERS CLIPPERS FANS CREWMEMBERS CREWMEMBERS DANIEL Okay, "Compare and contrast two famous figures from the civil rights movement." Six to eight pages? What if I say all I have to say in four? The more... DANIEL What if I Google space? DANIEL Should we bring our stuff? DANIEL DANIEL Yeah. DAVID Yeah. DAVID Is that one that one's sister? DAVID Pizza. DAVID They have different gifts for, like, older kids. DEANDRE You got to eat, come on. DEANDRE You think? DEANDRE Ha-ha! DEANDRE Get your shorts on, Bubs. We playing. This man really out here on some zero-tolerance shit. DEANDRE Yeah! Get it, baby! DEANDRE I'm glad, 'cause you not right much. DEANDRE Actually, I'm thinking how such a pretty man has such ugly-ass feet. DEANDRE That boy got hammer time. DOC Move it. The 11:00, the 12:00 and the 1:00, move 'em all. DOC No, I did not meditate today, Annemarie. Let's do an email to the guys. "Guys, comma: practice is canceled, period." DOC Can you hear me? DOC Annemarie? DOC Just-- Just cancel practice! DOC Seth. DOC Oh! DOC Breathe, Seth. Breathe. DOC How're you doing? DOC DOC I know you want to walk the fuck outta here, but this isn't Donald's team for long. DOC He will be gone. Meanwhile, the players, they aren't quitting and they're getting so much judgment. So, how would it feel to have you all walk out on them? DOC Shitty, right. Meanwhile, the guys are trying to bring home a championship that gives people something to come together on. To win it in spite of Donald. So please, please, I know it's hard, but please, I need you to stay here and endure the abuse. Folks are gonna keep telling you to fuck yourself because they can't get to Donald. But... you staying here and taking it, that's how you support the guys. DOC Thank you. DOC DOC DOC Can they be here today, and can they stay until things are teetering less on the verge of catastrophe? DOC Do I know what? DOC Oh, I just made that up. DOC Well, they got other sports to watch 'cause they're gonna be waiting a long fucking time. DOC Say I would understand. I hope they don't. I mean, we play for them, not Donald Sterling, and we're gonna need them in our corner bad tomorrow. Hold on, Annemarie. Somebody's here. DOC DOC Oh, my designer is waiting on some microfiber from, uh, Milan. DOC DOC There's a pool on the roof. Somebody will swim in it someday. DOC Oh, just, uh, hired a crisis counselor. Had to keep everybody at their desks, to support you guys. DOC I remember. DOC They was gon' to blast us whatever we did. DOC Mm. DOC We are not gonna lose. DOC Listen, when I was in your shoes, wondering if there was some place more important to be than on the court, only thing I could think was how much I wanted to play ball. DOC How long you wanted to play ball? DOC And did that shit ever have anything to do with Donald Sterling? All your successes? He-- He doesn't own that. DOC Only assholes believe that. DOC DOC Adam. DOC Yeah, um... help. I-I need a little help right now. DOC Thought we wasn't playing today. DOC Adam Silver's about to issue his decision on Donald. Might be empty rhetoric, but you mind if...? DOC Come on, you wanna play now? DOC So, what am I looking at? DOC Got it. DOC "We are one." And the we is? DOC DOC Okay. DOC I mean, maybe we don't need it written four times. DOC Me? I don't know anything about fonts. DOC DOC Black? DOC Twenty-four hours ago, they were all ready to quit. Now look. They're all, like, munchkin happy. DOC Uh-huh. DOC Alright. This one. DOC Tonight, they were just happy there was a resolution so they could focus on the game. DOC Dj had a career high after scoring zero points in the last game. That tells you everything right there. DOC Uh, I'm the only coach they got at this moment. So, take it or leave it. DOC He-He-He-Hey. Drink it in. Drink it in. I know what you're thinking. DOC I'm like that DaVinci drawing of the ideal male form. DOC Except a Black dude who's been eating too many chips. DOC For real? DOC Thank you, brother. But I didn't really do anything. Look, Donald Sterling might as well have gotten banned behind a computer glitch. DOC I didn't outwardly lose my mind. DOC I don't know. Chris went apeshit on them Warrior guys after Game Seven. It seemed like it came outta nowhere, but I understood. I just thank God I don't have to see that motherfucker at games anymore with-with the thumbs up and shit. DOC Look, I don't mean to complain and I'm glad if I helped people. DOC Yeah, also, I live in a six million dollar condo. I mean, I could play volleyball in there. I could put four kids through college without taking a loan. When I check out of a resort on vacation, I don't even look at the bill. DOC Yeah. DOC Yeah, they really love you. DOC Mm. DOC The middle passage. DOC/LEVAR BURTON DONALD Excuse me? DONALD Succubi. Do not speak to them. Talk shows, Larry King, the old birds on in the morning. They send girls to book people too stupid to see them coming. DONALD Not everyone who wants to look inside my ass has your good intentions. DONALD Why don't you find a way to contribute to society, you blood-suckers-in-training? Learn a trade! If you must know, I have a media strategy. DONALD I need to know what meds I'm on. DONALD Excuse me, Miss Heart of Ice, I could overdose. Maybe that's what you want. DONALD Oh, she's got a car service? DONALD What's he saying? DONALD V! Where are you? DONALD You're watching Elgin, that loser? DONALD Where's Barbara? You didn't talk to her yet? DONALD Magic's not coming, that fair-weather phony. Get in trouble, you'll see no loyalty. Ninety-nine percent of the people you call friends-- DONALD Are you insane? I'm not going on with you. How would that look? DONALD You, me? It's something un-untoward. But rather-rather than that, as planned, you're one of the many African-Americans in my life who I love and call a friend. But honey, honey, you have to go on by yourself, okay? And you have to say that you doctored the tape. DONALD H-Hold on, do you work with the hotel? What's your name? DONALD Good for you. Fuck off! DONALD You were trying to make a point. You used some special software. DONALD It doesn't matter. I know you didn't wanna make it go this far. You didn't-- You didn't want to ruin my life, did you, honey? Get me banned? DONALD No, don't start with that. I'm trying to do something for you, okay? If you say you made it up, when Shelly gets her settlement from her court case, I'll take care of it. I'll take care of you for the rest of your life. DONALD I'm talking to somebody here! DONALD It's a salad! DONALD None of you would be here if it wasn't for me. DONALD Don't delude yourself. You're a media whore! Okay, here. Here. DONALD It's not for her. I'm very angry at her. It's for her sons. I helped you with your adoption paperwork, didn't I? I wrote that reference for your boys, didn't I? And you don't wanna help me? You don't wanna help me? Help me like I helped you? DONALD And what you're not a-a pantyhose model? Come, come! Come meet my assistant, V. DONALD Don't mind her manners. DONALD And I'm sure you've probably heard that Magic Johnson will be unable to make it. DONALD And I would love nothing more than to be on your show, but my lawyers have expressly forbidden it. DONALD She's crazy. DONALD Even she thinks she's crazy. DONALD She never knew her father. DONALD A Black, so she's very mixed up. She tried so hard to make her skin White. She put cream on every night. She asked me do I like Black candy? She seduced me to play with her. DONALD She's an animal. DONALD Hmm. DONALD I saw you on Barbara Walters. She wanted to interview me too, but I knew she was very biased. Poor V. Barbara made her into a fool. You looked pretty though, even with your stupid divorce papers. Is that what you want? To get rid of me? Maybe I'll file first. Why should I stay married to a woman who doesn't love me? DONALD I've never sold anything. And to be forced. DONALD What did I say? What did I say? I was just talking about the way the world works. Are we to pretend that appearances don't matter? That there isn't an ordering, that every schmuck on Earth has to observe? An order, by the way, that slammed doors on me when I was Tokowitz, lest they forget. But now that I've made something of myself, they want me dragged through the town square to send a message about something that nobody's gonna change. Don't let that kid in the White House fool you. Hope, change. Gimme a break. No one can change it. But you're not supposed to say that. DONALD Whatever you want me to sign, I'll sign. Selling the team will make it easier to split our finances anyway. DONALD DONALD DONALD I wanna talk. DRAYMOND No, dawg. We having a funeral room for your self-respect, over there grinning and shit. DRAYMOND Yeah? DRAYMOND Even though y'all heard the tape, y'all still went tap dancing for your racist-ass owner. DRAYMOND You, nigga. DRAYMOND Oh yeah. That's what they gonna write in the history books. What you planned to do in your mind. DRAYMOND Do it! Right here! ELGIN That's the Donald Sterling I know. ELGIN Of course he is. There's no doubt in my mind. At the time I thought then, and now... ELGIN They were upset about it because I'm told... FEMALE AUTOMATED PHONE VOICE Your call has been forward to an automatic voice-- FEMALE JUDGE Quite the week, Miss Stiviano. FEMALE JUDGE To help you remember a happy day. Congratulations. FEMALE MAKEUP ARTIST Oh, don't worry, honey. Everybody looks good in Barbara's light. FEMALE MAKEUP ARTIST Ugh. My grandma's racist. She says Mexicans moving into her complex are destroying her condo's value. I'm like, "Nani, worry about ovarian cancer. Worry about sea level rise." FEMALE MAKEUP ARTIST You have amazing eyebrows. FEMALE OFFICE WORKER 1 Can't do that. Who cares that it-- FEMALE OFFICE WORKER 2 Oh my God. FEMALE OFFICE WORKER 3 Oh shit. Psst. Check it out. FEMALE OFFICE WORKER 4 Came only to see Andy, I bet. FEMALE OFFICE WORKER 4 I mean, probably. FEMALE REPORTER 1 Mr. Rivers! Mr. Rivers! FEMALE REPORTER 1 Doc, Doc! FEMALE REPORTER 1 Mr. Rivers! FEMALE REPORTER 1 Doc, Doc! Over here! Over here! FEMALE REPORTER 1 Mr. Rivers! FEMALE REPORTER 2 Doc! Doc! FEMALE REPORTER 2 Over here! Doc! FEMALE REPORTER 2 Doc! FEMALE REPORTER 3 Doc, Doc, Doc. FEMALE REPORTER 3 Doc, right here! FEMALE REPORTER 3 Coach Rivers. FEMALE TELEVISION ANNOUNCER Critical playoff game Tuesday night, the same day owner Donald Sterling was dropped at the-- GARY Let's walk the fuck out right now. GARY I don't care! I just got a death threat. GARY Shitty. Abandoned. Lacking infrastructure. GARY Alright. GARY Thanks, Coach. GLENN Just think of the biggest stars you can imagine. GLENN Ladies, this story has a girl, a tape, sports, racism, money. GLENN I mean, there is something in it for everyone. People are going to think of the R-word when they think of you. GLENN Condemn Donald. That would be ideal. GLENN Donald is not my client. I wouldn't take him as a client. We don't do wife beaters or drunk drivers, terrorists, rapists, racists-- GLENN Shelly, you are either a racist landlord or a nice, little lady who has half a melatonin and goes to bed at 9:00 PM. Who has no idea what kind of crazy shit her husband is up to after dark. You're not taking his calls. Seems like maybe he doesn't even live here with you. Meanwhile, you are very marketable. Your voice, your face. Kind of like a fairy godmother thing. It will be very easy for an audience to see that you are a good person if you let them. GLENN Shelly, coming out against Donald isn't just about your reputation. You have to protect your assets. GLENN All right. Is your husband a racist? GLENN Words. Too many words. GLENN Alright, I will come back to it. GLENN How would you describe your relationship with your husband now? GLENN Listen, I will give you multiple choice here. A: I love my husband, but I don't like him. B: My husband disgusts me. We haven't made love in 40 years. C: My husband and I were high school sweethearts and stayed married out of habit. GLENN Okay. Do you still have sex? No, no, no. Neutral face, neutral face. Just-- GLENN Well, this is where our confirmation says we're filming. GLENN Mm. GLENN But the public does. You could capitalize on your good reputation and control the whole process. JAMAL JAMAL For real? "The Nba stands with CarMax against racism." JAMAL Hard, but not revolution hard. JAMAL I'm just saying the sponsors dropped us first. All of us was about to boycott. Jesse fucking Jackson had everybody about to march on City Hall and Silver did what he had to do: the popular thing. JAMAL Right, literally. What's the downside for him? JAMAL Okay. Angelina Jolie went deep though. JAMAL After 19 kids, she changed her life. JAMAL Yeah. So, like, Adam Silver ready to commit like that? Or is he gonna keep on pretending we got one bad apple in the Nba? "We are one." That's just some slogan to let everybody go back to feeling good about watching us hoop again without thinking about all this other shit. JAMAL Shut up. JARED Don't waste your time on this sore loser, man. He just depressed. JJ I knew he had something up his sleeve, but I didn't think he'd go all Jean Valjean. JJ What, you don't think it was hard for him smacking down an owner like that? JJ Mm. JJ Oh, I get you. And he gets to come on the scene as new commissioner like Captain America. JJ Boom, boom! JUSTINE Mike Tyson? Mel Gibson? JUSTINE What about a listening tour or a-a charity luncheon with an inspiring keynote like Gayle King? JUSTINE Honey, I-I think that's the complete opposite of what he wants you to say. JUSTINE Wait, wait, wait, wait. What did he say? JUSTINE He's gonna make Donald sell? Go-- Go back. Go back. JUSTINE It's more buttery than you like. JUSTINE The prostate cancer article's up. JUSTINE Well... JUSTINE "In an ironic twist, Sterling refused to pay for prostate cancer surgery a decade ago for a Clippers assistant coach." JUSTINE "Four Clippers players chipped in to cover the $70,000 cost." JUSTINE Oh, sweetie. I'm still here. JUSTINE You know, Gandhi said, "If I didn't laugh, I would've committed suicide." JUSTINE He also drank a pint of his urine every morning. JUSTINE Mm-hmm. JUSTINE Mm-hmm. JUSTINE JUSTINE Wel... JUSTINE Shell, the whole reason we picked Barbara is because V fell face first on every landmine. Ambiguity, boom. Excuses for Donald, boom. Stick with sound bites. JUSTINE Yeah. Ooh, an undisclosed location. I think it's exciting. Like when Dateline interviews defectors from the Taliban. KIM KARDASHIAN ...for you to go on a reality show and get people to fall in love with you for being you. So, there is definitely a lot more pressure, I think, to be famous for being ourselves. KIM KARDASHIAN I really believe that with anything in life, whatever you do, you might think... LEVAR BURTON Ah, there he is. The perfect coach. LEVAR BURTON Hmm? LEVAR BURTON Vitruvian Man. LEVAR BURTON Man, don't you know that popcorn is so much less fattening for you, and you can eat as much as you want? LEVAR BURTON But seriously, Doc, it is good to see you get your laurels, man. LEVAR BURTON You did your job. LEVAR BURTON Inwardly? LEVAR BURTON Yeah. LEVAR BURTON To be of service. That's what life's about. LEVAR BURTON We are two famous guys with nothing to worry about, by certain standards. LEVAR BURTON And people love us. LEVAR BURTON Everybody wants a piece of Doc. LEVAR BURTON And then, you know, sometimes you look around, and you're two Black men sweating in a wooden box and you think... MAC Do you want to rehearse? MAC Okay, can we discuss what you will not say not to compromise our case against Mrs. Sterling's lawsuit? I don't want you to say anything bad about Shelly. No, "witch", "bitch", "hag". And your finances. Did you pay taxes? How much-- MAC What is Mr. Sterling doing here? MAC Donald set it up? MAC She cannot do that! MAC Mac Nehoray. I am her attorney. MAC There is no reason for you to speak to me this way. MAC Mr. Sterling, V has given a statement to the Nba-- MAC Ouch! MAC The croutons sting! MAC MAC Donald, she cannot accept a bribe. MALE AUTOMATED PHONE VOICE Hello, please leave a message after-- MALE FAN In the house! MALE OFFICE WORKER She's here. MALE OFFICE WORKER What is she doing here? MALE OFFICE WORKER You think Sterling sent her? MALE OFFICE WORKER Ugh, I can't even bear these people. MALE ONCOLOGIST Hiring a new secretary? MALE ONCOLOGIST The... MALE ONCOLOGIST You don't wanna be interviewed? You know, like, tell your side of the story. MALE ONCOLOGIST Okay. MALE PASSERBY Cunt. MALE REPORTER 1 V! V! Coming through! Over here! MALE REPORTER 2 Smile for the camera. Are you speaking to Donald Sterling? MALE REPORTER 3 Miss Stiviano! Miss Stiviano! MALE REPORTER 4 Uh, Doc! MALE REPORTER 4 Doc, some people are calling you the perfect coach for this moment. What do you think about that? MALE REPORTER 5 Coach Rivers. MALE REPORTER 6 Coach Rivers. MALE REPORTER 7 Doc! MALE SPORTS COMMENTATOR As the avalanche continues to... MALE TELEVISION ANNOUNCER But then the boss continued their conversation that Tom ended at the end of the first-- MALE TELEVISION HOST And made by the world-renowned jewelry designer, Juan Carlos Major-- MALE WARRIORS COACH Get back in your locker room. MARTY We can do just the girl. MATT Weren't y'all ready to burn us at the stake 10 minutes ago? MATT Ain't nobody banned no damn Styrofoam cups. MATT You just want something to complain about. That bitch is banned! MATT Yo! MATT A ight, nigga. Who's tap dancing? MATT What? MATT You bite too, bitch? MATT I'll really beat you! MATT You bite, too! MEETING CROWD MISS MARKS Tell me about getting the boys to school in the morning. MISS MARKS Oh. MISS MARKS Oh, okay. MISS MARKS Is there anything you want to note about your shoplifting arrests? MISS MARKS And the DUI two years ago? MISS MARKS Biotin? MISS MARKS Your reference from Donald Sterling says as much. He wrote how important you are to the success of his foundation. MISS MARKS What are your plans for the future? MISS MARKS I-I meant, um, do you have employment lined up? Now that you're not working for the foundation, how do you keep up with utilities and, um, car payments? MISS MARKS Okay. MISS MARKS I just report what I see. The judge makes the determination at your court date. 'Kay? OFFICE CROWD OFFICE CROWD OFFICE CROWD OFFICE CROWD OFFICE CROWD PIERCE Shelly, the hyenas in the press are about to pick this carcass clean. But you have me. I have Glenn. He is the crisis man in town. We can control the narrative. PIERCE Glenn is my ace. Without Glenn, I'd be steaming shirts at Tommy Bahama. Adam Silver is about to hold a press conference. PIERCE PIERCE No. PIERCE I can't-- I can't go back. It's-- It's live. PIERCE Whatever they can do to Donald, you're a 50% owner of the team and you did nothing wrong. Mandy. Mandy, hey, it's-it's Pierce. Could you download me whatever is in the Nba constitution about, uh, removal of ownership. PIERCE Good. Yeah, call me back. PIERCE Well, remember our audience of one. Adam Silver, he's made it clear he thinks your husband is a racist. He's not gonna-- PIERCE Oh, I'm sorry. Here, do you want one? PIERCE Maybe we should switch to print. Take the pressure off the performance, huh? PIERCE Mm, mm. It's gonna be alright. Mm-hmm. PIERCE Come on. PIERCE You're fine. PIERCE Hmm. PIERCE Of course it is! She's a 50% owner of the team. She has done nothing wrong. PIERCE PIERCE PIERCE PIERCE Adam, I am having an "Ah-ha" moment. What if-- What if we arrange for the sale of the team? PIERCE Uh-- PIERCE Well, we can take that chance, but if the owners force a sale, the team becomes a distressed asset and Adam picks the buyer. I don't think he likes you very much. PROTESTERS RALPH LAWLER Lawler's Law is broken folks: your Los Angeles Clippers defeat the Golden State Warriors, bringing this rocking and rolling series to a four-three finish. REPORTERS REPORTERS REPORTERS SETH Excuse me, excuse me. SETH Just another day at the office, please. There's nothing to see here that you cannot learn from the comfort of your own newsroom. SETH Uh, you've got a little... SETH Thank you. Fifteen people ready to just walk out. Season ticket holders are calling, threatening to cancel if we play tomorrow. Sandy's son called him a racist. We are hemorrhaging sponsors: CarMax, Kia, State Farm. Gone. I-I don't even think we're gonna hold onto the P. Diddy water. SETH SETH Well, AP posted a picture of me talking to Chris in Oakland. So now people are like, "Hey, look at the White PR guy telling the Black players how to talk to the press." I mean, I-I have been in basketball for so long and only now have I even thought about the fact that I'm White. So does that mean that-that all this time I've just been, like, implicit? SETH Y-Y-You don't-- You don't-- You don't have to say anything. Just... SETH Thanks, Gary. Two minutes. Okay, Janis? Just two minutes. SETH Okay, I got one. Listening Steps Crisis Counseling, four and a half stars on Yelp. "We provide service for traumatic events in the workplace. Examples are chemical, fire, hostage situation, incidents that attract derogatory media coverage--" SETH Calling. Do you know something? SETH When you said Donald's gonna be gone. Adam Silver tell you that? SETH It's our homepage redesigned for tonight's game. All black. Uh, symbolic, you know, like, um... SETH And, uh, we have t-shirts and signs ready to print with this slogan. SETH Well, the team or the fans or the whole world. I mean, they're your words actually. You wrote it on the dry erase board in Oakland, "We are one," after the tape. SETH I mean, you-you meant "we" the team. But, uh, it's a flexible concept, "we." SETH Okay. So, what do you think? SETH That-- That's just so you can pick a font. SETH Well, graphic design is, uh, instinctual, I think. SETH You know, like-like which style says, uh... SETH Uh... SETH Oh, I am so fucking happy it's over. SETH SETH Ooh, mm. Sans serif. Strong choice. SETH Mm-hmm, like rescuing puppies? SETH Right, because it wasn't an apology. SETH Okay. Is Mr. Sterling prepared to apologize for decades of racism? SETH Oh, then there is nothing I can do. SETH Oh, it's not hard. SHELLY Out of nowhere, I'm just sitting way up in the seat they asked me to sit. This awful woman calls me a racist in front of a child, that a child should hear such things. SHELLY We're not talking. You don't know me but ask any of the players. Nobody who knows me thinks I'm a racist. SHELLY Who else have you worked with? SHELLY I don't see why I should have to do an interview. SHELLY I've never done one before. SHELLY What do you want me to say? SHELLY What will that mean for him? SHELLY But Donald is not a racist. SHELLY SHELLY How can this be legal? You can't make someone sell something they own. SHELLY Andy, you have to do something. SHELLY You're a son to him. Look at the life you have because of Donald. Look at the size of your office. It's not the corner office, but it's in a corner. And don't say there's nothing to do. You fight. SHELLY You could have stopped this. She sent you a tape and you did nothing! Nothing! SHELLY You-- SHELLY You did nothing. SHELLY Well, I'm asking you to do something now. This team is his lifeblood. SHELLY What will he live for? He'll die. SHELLY Seth, honey, we need some quick ideas to help Mr. Sterling's reputation like we always do when there's bad news. Show the public his big heart. SHELLY Of course not! SHELLY Seth, honey. I know it's hard to know where you stand with Donald because of the ban. SHELLY Vulnerable. SHELLY Oh, Andy, you're a dear soul. SHELLY What is it, Andy? SHELLY SHELLY I'll drink turpentine if it ends this day. SHELLY Is it helping? SHELLY How can they say something bad about his cancer? SHELLY Oh, that guy. SHELLY You tried to get me to confront all this years ago and I pushed you away. I pushed and pushed and pushed. SHELLY SHELLY SHELLY Is the, um, interview on now? SHELLY You want me to watch it, hmm? SHELLY Fine. Maybe I haven't got any feelings left to hurt. SHELLY Is that how I sound? SHELLY SHELLY What people think is racial is always changing. He never says bad words. I've never heard him say anything racial-- SHELLY Uh... SHELLY I'm supposed to give them a sound bite saying that Don is a racist? SHELLY Do you have to eat all those nuts? SHELLY I just want to skip the racist one. SHELLY SHELLY How is that anybody's business? SHELLY We were high school sweethearts. SHELLY I'm not doing that bad, huh? SHELLY Wait, th-they fly us to New York on private and we're meeting in a slum? I don't think so. SHELLY Are you sure it was the ABC people? What if it was an imposter? I wanna go back to the Ritz. SHELLY SHELLY I couldn't understand a word. SHELLY I was going to ask about your sports coat. SHELLY I can't comment on that. I was shocked by what he said. It was degrading. It made me sick. I guess whatever their decision is, we have to live with it. SHELLY Mm-hmm. SHELLY Do I like him, or do I love him? I-I, I don't love him. I pity him. I feel sorry for him. SHELLY We're estranged. SHELLY For the last 20 years, I've been seeing attorneys about that off and on. In fact, I signed a petition for divorce. SHELLY This last few weeks was the worst. I couldn't take anymore. SHELLY I really don't want to go there. SHELLY I'm fine. I was weak in my marriage, but I will be strong. SHELLY I've been with the team for 33 years, through good times and bad times. It's my passion and I love it. I think half of it is mine and I will fight for it. SHELLY Do we look like one unit? SHELLY Didn't you see me on Barbara Walters with the divorce papers? SHELLY Well, how can divorced people be one unit? You divorce and then you're two units. SHELLY Do you know what I've been through in the past week? The names I've been called? The shunning? Why wouldn't it crystallize my feelings? It crystallized yours. After 33 years, you decided you couldn't live with him either. SHELLY This is because I'm a woman. If I made a racial remark on tape, you would let Donald keep the team. SHELLY You wouldn't care what I did. SHELLY That's not an "Ah-ha" moment. You're saying the same thing he is. SHELLY SHELLY No, wait. SHELLY Pierce, tell them we're not done. Do something! Oh. None of the owners will set the precedent that you can take a team away. They're billionaires. Do you know what perversions they have in their closets? SHELLY They go to sex dungeons. They hunt baby elephants. SHELLY Chocolate marshmallows from Edelweiss. SHELLY The striped ones are s'mores. We can't keep the team. SHELLY The Nba has given us 10 days to find a buyer. We have no choice. This allows me to receive offers for the team. SHELLY You can't go to the games anyway. SHELLY Things have changed, Don. The world is different now. SPORTS CROWD STEPH Hello? STEPH Hey! TY Get back, get back. Get back. TY Hey, now go on! TY Go on, get back. TY Yo, Chris, come on. Let it go. TY Now weren't y'all kumbaya, "we gon' picket together?" VEE Daniel, it's no problem. Uh, one time he was placed with a Marine. He packs for school the night before. VEE David likes to stay up on his phone, so sometimes I have to drag him out of bed. VEE He's 13. I read the teenage brain needs more sleep. VEE That was 10 years ago. I turned my life around. I'm a role model for what these kids have been through. VEE That was a reckless. I'm having it reclassified. Uh, the cop-- the police officer found Biotin in my purse. VEE Biotin, the vitamin for hair and nail health. The cop thought it was, um... Well, I don't know what he thought. I don't do drugs or party. VEE I don't work for him now. I don't know if you saw about the tape. Mr. Sterling is an incredibly accomplished man. He mentored me, but he does have unhealthy views, which he expressed on the tape. The tape of which you may or may not be aware. And so, I don't work for him anymore. And you should note for the judge, the Nba found I didn't do anything illegal. I know that the Nba is not the police or anything, but they did have lawyers find that I didn't do anything wrong. VEE I'm going to change the world. VEE VEE I'm building a brand. VEE So, now you recommend me to the judge? VEE What do you want? VEE I don't work for you anymore. VEE I can't go through it right now. I have a car service waiting. VEE No. I brought my own foundation for touch-ups. VEE I'm not going to talk about any of that. We're going to talk about racism. VEE Some people are afraid that when others get more they'll have less. VEE I know. VEE He set it up. I'm going on with him and Magic. VEE I was waiting for you and Magic. VEE We'll go on just the two of us then. I'll help you apologize. VEE How would it look? VEE But I didn't. VEE No, I just want you to realize that the way you grew up is wrong. That people of all colors-- VEE I know you set this interview up, but I have something to say. VEE I wanna talk about the hidden ways people discriminate-- VEE Miss Walters, it's a pleasure to meet you. VEE A legend of the screen. VEE VEE I'm prepared for anything. VEE Confused. I think he feels very alone. Not truly supported. Tormented. Emotionally traumatized. VEE From the media, from his peers. I think he's highly more traumatized by the things he said himself. VEE Absolutely. VEE Only God knows. VEE I'm Mr. Sterling's right hand arm... man. I'm Mr. Sterling's everything. I'm his confidant. His best friend. His silly rabbit. VEE His silly rabbit. VEE Yes. VEE No. VEE I love him. VEE I love him like a father figure. Just like a father figure. VEE Yes. He at first started paying me as an employee, and then he started paying me off the books. VEE Well, I'm Mr. Sterling's personal assistant. Like I said, I'm his right hand. I'm his wingman. What isn't there to understand? VEE VEE I follow all of the players, but none of them follow me back. VEE No. I don't believe it in my heart. VEE Yes. I think Mr. Sterling com^tes from a different generation. Through his actions, he's shown that he's not a racist. VEE If he was a real racist, then why would he help the world the way he has? VEE What? VEE VEE VEE No, no, no, no, no! Shit. VEE VEE VEE Mm-mm. VEE Oh, you're not taking that. VEE Now you really have to do what I tell you! VEE You happy? VEE Yeah? I'm happy, too. You hungry? What do you want to eat? VEE Pizza! VEE Oh, you don't want me to treat you like my little baby boy, huh? Huh? VEE Come on, let's get in the car.