ANDERSON_COOPER ANDERSON_COOPER_AND_DONALD ANDY BALLMER BALLMER_AND_PIERCE BALLMER_AND_PIERCE_AND_SHELLY BAR_CROWD BASKETBALL_CROWD BIG_BABY BIG_BABY_AND_BLAKE_AND_JJ BLAKE CHRIS CLIPPERS CLIPPERS_AND_HIGH_SCHOOL_CLIPPERS_FANS CLIPPERS_AND_THUNDER COURTHOUSE_CROWD COURTROOM_CROWD DAVID DEANDRE DEANDRE_AND_JAMAL_AND_JJ DEJA DEJA_AND_V DELIVERY_GUY DOC DOC_AND_ELGIN DOC_AND_LEVAR_BURTON DONALD DRUNK_PATRONS DRUNK_PATRON_ONE DRUNK_PATRON_TWO ELGIN FEMALE_REPORTER_ONE FEMALE_REPORTER_TWO FEMALE_VACATIONER FEMALE_VACATIONERS GARY GLADYS GLENN HIGH_SCHOOL_CLIPPERS_FANS JAMAL JUDGE_LEVANAS JUSTINE LEVAR_BURTON LOCKER_ROOM_CROWD MAC MALE_GUARD MALE_GUARD_ONE MALE_HIGH_SCHOOL_FAN MALE_REFEREE MALE_REPORTER_ONE MALE_REPORTER_TWO MALE_THUNDER_FAN MALE_TOW_WORKER MATT NANCY NANCY_AND_SHARON PIERCE PIERCE_AND_SHELLY PLATZER PRODUCTION_CREWMEMBERS REPORTERS RESTAURANT_CROWD SAMINI SETH SHARON SHELLY THUNDER_FANS WAITRESS V SHELLY What does Oprah like to eat? PIERCE Oh, she loves fresh fruit all around. She may even bring her own avocados. SHELLY Oh! PIERCE Now this evening, Geffen: just coffee and tea. He'll show up in Reeboks and jeans. The slob look is a Hollywood thing. Do not take it as disrespect. And tomorrow, Magic: given his cameo in Donald's whole tape mess, let's roll out lunch fit for a king. SHELLY Oh. DEANDRE Ah! DOC Gotta be fast, DJ. LOCKER ROOM CROWD DEANDRE Ah! DOC You gotta read my mind a little bit. You gotta look into the future. How you gonna cover Kevin Durant if you can-- DEANDRE Oh, come on, man! Let me go. DOC I go-- DEANDRE Let me do you. DOC I go until I miss! That's the rule. CHRIS Taking advantage of a man while he getting his ankle worked out. You need to win that bad, Coach? DOC Oh-ho-ho. I see somebody else want a piece. CHRIS We got game one coming up against Oklahoma City. I'm gonna let you touch these gorgeous hands? DOC I won't touch you if you're fast. CHRIS You hear this shit, DeAndre? DEANDRE Mm-hmm. CHRIS Only man a more competitive psychopath than you is me. So if you think I'm gonna kick off the semifinal-- DEANDRE Oh! CHRIS Damn. DOC Slap hand champ of the west! DEANDRE DOC The undefeated, the fastest draw, the man who took you through the Sterling bullshit, the man who's gonna take you to the championship. Come on now. DEANDRE Oh yeah! Oh yeah! PIERCE Are you ready to make history? SHELLY PIERCE Shelly, meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, the only man who can transplant a kidney and sink a jump shot. SHELLY We have every sushi you can name and five you've never heard of. SOON-SHIONG Will Mr. Sterling be joining us? PIERCE Oh, he has entrusted the search for a buyer to Mrs. Sterling. SHELLY But Donald is ready to sell. He understands in his way. PRODUCTION CREWMEMBERS ANDY Does Shelly know about this? DONALD Why are you bringing up a painful subject now? ANDY I-I'm sorry. DONALD Am I not coping with enough trauma? We're not speaking. ANDY Okay. Um, just press pause and take a break. M-Maybe this isn't the-the optimal time for an apology tour. Maybe after the season, right? O-Oh! In the new year, right? A time of, of, uh, of renewal, of resetting resolutions. Um, may-- How about, um, repentance? DONALD Andy. ANDY Yeah. DONALD People have a misapprehension of who I am. Don't you agree? ANDY They-- Well-- DONALD I should let them think I'm a bigot and you're a bigot's little helper? You're unemployed, Andy, and I can't help you until I help myself. ANDY Right. DONALD Uh, move the furniture around as needed. I'm not attached to the layout. ANDERSON COOPER Thank you for letting us do this at your home. DONALD You've given me a forum to prostrate myself in apology. How can I repay you? ANDERSON COOPER It's not necessary, Mr. Sterling. Here. DONALD Ever set courtside at a playoff game? Not to watch Blake Griffin and Chris Paul beat the balls off Oklahoma City, you haven't. ANDERSON COOPER We have to fly back to New York tonight but thank you. DONALD You're a distinguished looking man. You know that? Piercing eyes like the bald eagle. Immediately, one trusts you. I hope you trust me. Andy, how long has this been here? Can you get the man some fresh water? ANDY Okay. Um, I don't think we can offer them tickets. DONALD I still own the team. BASKETBALL CROWD MALE THUNDER FAN Chris Paul, you suck! THUNDER FANS MALE THUNDER FAN Where's your State Farm sweater vest, you corny little chump? Why don't you throw your shirt on the floor, weak-ass bitch? CHRIS I thought we were one. These White boys sound like they're ready to brawl. DOC I don't hear nothing. CHRIS All right. MALE REPORTER ONE So now you're tied two-two with Oklahoma City and you've got a bruised hand. Do you thrive under that pressure? CHRIS Every game, I got the same drive to win, man. When people say I have a Napoleon complex, I just hear I'm a small guy who does great things. MALE REPORTER ONE How closely is the team following the news about Shelly Sterling's search for new ownership? CHRIS The only thing the guys are following is my lead on the court. MALE REPORTER ONE All right, thanks Chris. FEMALE VACATIONERS CHRIS No, thank you. FEMALE VACATIONER Going to the pool? CHRIS Going to the finals, baby. FEMALE VACATIONERS CHRIS DeAndre, hello? Has your big-ass fallen and can't get up? Hell you got going on, boy? DONALD I am not a racist. I have never been a racist. I will never be a racist. I made a terrible, terrible, terrible mistake, and I'm here today to apologize. DEANDRE Hey, Chris, looking for me. Should I invite him? BIG BABY AND BLAKE AND JJ MATT Sure. DONALD And to ask forgiveness for all the people I hurt. ANDERSON COOPER What are you sorry about? DONALD Oh, I've hurt so many people, so many innocent people, and I have hurt myself, and I want to apologize to my partner. PIERCE BLAKE They're really gonna let him apologize. ANDERSON COOPER AND DONALD MATT All these motherfuckers get second chances all the time. BIG BABY You know they have backroom rich man deals though. BLAKE Mm-hmm. MATT Exactly. BIG BABY They gon' all circle up their little golf carts at the country club and give him back the team on the DL. BLAKE ANDERSON COOPER Clothes, cars and houses... CHRIS What the fuck is this, a slumber party? CHRIS Y'all for real? You giving this asshole a minute more of your time? ANDERSON COOPER AND DONALD CHRIS We got game five tomorrow, dummies. Tighten up. BIG BABY Let it fuck you up now or fuck you up later. CHRIS No. I'm giving stupid-ass DeAndre back his stupid-ass IceMan and go back to my room, pray and Skype my kids. ANDERSON COOPER The comments caught on tape echo charges made by Elgin Baylor. DONALD No, no, no, no, no, no. You're trying to connect them. ANDERSON COOPER Well, he made a claim that you had a plantation mentality. BLAKE What the fuck is he saying? DONALD I don't know what that means to have a mentality. BLAKE What? JAMAL Motherfucker, not knowing is the problem. BIG BABY What is that? ANDERSON COOPER To have a plantation mentality is to feel like you own these guys. DONALD I think you have more of a plantation mentality than I do. I think you're more of a racist than I am. SHELLY ANDERSON COOPER Magic Johnson has said he would never attend a game while you were owner. DONALD I'm hurt, but it doesn't matter. He acts so holy. BLAKE I don't think this is an apology anymore. DONALD Big Magic Johnson. What has he done? ANDERSON COOPER Well, he's a businessperson. DONALD Well, he's got AIDS. CHRIS What the fuck? BLAKE Are you fucking serious? MATT Oh my God. DONALD I mean, did he do business? I'd like to know. CHRIS Gotta watch this shit now. ANDERSON COOPER I think he has HIV. I don't think he actually has full-blown AIDS. DONALD Oh, well, what kind of guy goes to every city-- Excuse me. He made love to every girl in America, and he had AIDS, and when he had those AIDS, I prayed for him. PIERCE Uh... JAMAL Oh, I get it. I thought he was one of the most successful and beloved Black men in America, but he's actually just a sex fiend. DONALD BIG BABY Who doesn't do anything for anybody. JAMAL Who does nothing for nobody, and his getting HIV supposed to be what he deserves. Man, fuck outta here, man. DONALD I mean, is this someone we wanna respect and tell our kids about? I think he should be ashamed of himself. DONALD Well, what does he do for the Black people? SHELLY Oh God! Why won't he shut up? It's awful, awful, awful. ANDERSON COOPER The players on the team don't wanna play for you. DONALD You-- Do you think they're all gonna walk off the team? They know I'm not a racist. The players don't hate me. I contend they love me. ANDERSON COOPER You think they still love you? DONALD They do... DEANDRE We hate you! BLAKE Fuck off! DEANDRE We literally hate you! ANDERSON COOPER AND DONALD PIERCE Siri, off! Siri, off! GLADYS Push "power" on the big remote. SHELLY Oh God! All those bidders I had to the house. I ordered their foods, I listened to their life stories, I played hardball, and now they're all gonna be running for the hills. JUSTINE Sell to Magic. Stick that in Donald's eye. Wouldn't that be poetic? SHELLY Well, I don't understand poetry, honey, but I do know Donald will never sign off on Magic's group. He wants a sole owner. JUSTINE You have to get Donald on board? PIERCE Team is owned by a family trust. They both have to sign off. JUSTINE What if he refuses to sell? SHELLY He can't refuse. He agreed. He can't stop the sale, can he? PIERCE Well, he can make it very difficult. GLENN From a PR perspective, the only way to comfortably cover your ass is to get Donald out of the sale conversation altogether. SHELLY Which is exactly why I revised the trust last Christmas. What he got into with V, giving her more and more and more, at a certain point, one becomes a danger to oneself. PIERCE Shelly, you had the trust revised? What does it say? SHELLY That... if one of us becomes, you know, incompetent to manage things, we can be removed as co-trustee. JUSTINE Well... that man is incompetent to manage an electric toothbrush. PIERCE Ladies, if you'll excuse us, Glenn and I need to use the little boys' room. JUSTINE Have fun. PIERCE We need to prepare for the... GLENN The press release... SHELLY I wanna ask you sincerely, does Donald seem sick to you? JUSTINE I think he's saying exactly what he means, but he is unaware that he's saying it to all of America. He does seem confused. I know a neurologist. DONALD This-- I've seen this guy. This is a zebra, and this is a-- DONALD I know it's an "H". No, it's an "R". Son of a bitch. I saw this at the zoo when I was 10 years old. It's not a unicorn. I know that. Fat unicorn. Don't flunk me for leaving some blanks. PLATZER No, that-that's okay, Mr. Sterling. Now can you spell the word "world" backwards out loud? DONALD The word "world". PLATZER Mm-hmm. DONALD Now she wants to do tongue twisters. The word "world". PLATZER Mm. DONALD Sure. D-R-O-W-L. PLATZER Mm-hmm. Good. Now, can you start at 100 and count back to one by sevens? DONALD Like 100 minus seven? PLATZER Yes, 100 minus seven and continuing on. DONALD Hundred minus seven is 93. DONALD You know, I can afford a calculator, okay? Yeah? I've given you what you need. Two hours. I think you got some good stuff. SHELLY Don, let her finish. PLATZER No, that's all right, Mrs. Sterling. We're about concluded. Now would you prefer to discuss my findings in private? DONALD What are you doing, a research project? SHELLY Doctor, go ahead. Tell us what you found. PLATZER Between-- Between the scans you had at Cedars, Mr. Sterling, a-and this evaluation, it's my opinion that you have Alzheimer's. SHELLY Alzheimer's? Are you sure? But couldn't it just be mild cognitive impairment? Uh-- PLATZER I always recommend a second opinion, but it's never too late to start making plans for when the disease progresses. You may consider moving back in together. DONALD Shelly, I'm fine. I'm just hungry. All this math, you work up an appetite. Hippo, that's what it's called. Hippopotamus. THUNDER FANS BASKETBALL CROWD DOC It's almost game time, DJ. You skipping the shootaround? DEANDRE I'll be there in a second. DOC Where's Astro? You didn't bring your dragon? DEANDRE He got loose. DOC Man, I'm sorry. DJ, why the long face? Your free throws are falling. You on the glass like we talked about last year. You're a star in your role! DEANDRE All I can think about is Donald talking about how we all love him. CHRIS Some happy slave shit. DOC Where did Donald say this? DEANDRE Anderson Cooper 360. DOC You watched the shit? Why? CHRIS We all did. DOC Are you kidding me? Didn't we drill to prepare for distractions? We can't have DeAndre out there wondering if this is a plantation! It's not! It's a basketball arena! CHRIS Man, Doc, that Donald shit was everywhere. What were we supposed to do? DOC Block it out! You show everybody that you can overcome anything to win! Isn't that what we all doing here? Isn't it? DEANDRE BASKETBALL CROWD CLIPPERS AND THUNDER DOC Oh! What was that? DOC He never touched him! That was not a foul! That was not a foul! That was not a foul! MALE REFEREE Three. Hit. Three shots. SHELLY Hello? BALLMER Hi. Is this Shelly Sterling? SHELLY It's after midnight. Who's calling? PIERCE Don't be alarmed by the size of his legal team or if they play it a bit aggressive. This guy's worth $20 billion. We host a titan today. BALLMER These arches, l-like the porticos of Tuscany. PIERCE SHELLY How sweet of you to say. Did your lawyers take a separate car? BALLMER Oh, n-no lawyers. It's just me. Uh, Steve. SHELLY How do you do? PIERCE U-Uh, uh, Pierce. BALLMER Ah. SHELLY Hey, come in. Come in. BALLMER Oh, thank you. SHELLY Steve Ballmer. BALLMER Not Bomber. BALLMER AND PIERCE AND SHELLY SHELLY I thought his name was Bomber from the phone call, as in "bomber jet". It's a funny story. BALLMER SHELLY Anyway, even though he's in Seattle, he promises to keep the team here. BALLMER No, I-I, I-I wouldn't betray the fans. No, the only change I wanna make is haptic feedback under the seats. Keep 'em on their feet! BALLMER AND PIERCE SHELLY Well, as you can see, he's bursting with positive energy, which will be good for the players. PIERCE Tell 'em about the two. SHELLY Steve says his offer is $1.8 billion. PIERCE Already the highest bid of the many high bidders that Shelly has wrangled, I might add. BALLMER SHELLY And three times as much as anyone's paid for a team so far, but-- PIERCE But Shelly says to him, "Geez, I'm thinking I'd like a two in front of it." I almost choked on my crostini, but then Ballmer says... BALLMER Okay! PIERCE Okay! To two billion dollars. SHELLY Oh, Don. I know it's been hard for you to give it up, honey, but here I found a sole owner who listens and who cares. How fabulous is that? BALLMER DONALD Computers, right? BALLMER I was the CEO of Microsoft. DONALD I know those guys. BALLMER DONALD You really have two billion dollars? BALLMER I do. DONALD What an idiot to keep that in cash. He's not the guy. SHELLY Don, I worked very hard to put together this deal. Ballmer met all my terms. I thought you'd be happy. DONALD Why? Because he's bursting with energy? He's not the guy! I can do better than this guy. SHELLY Who do you know that has two billion dollars? DONALD You don't know who I know! SHELLY Well, could you let me know by Tuesday? Because that's when we have to present our choice to the NBA! DONALD We're not presenting a choice because I don't wanna sell. SHELLY You said you would. You signed a paper. DONALD I said you could receive bids! It's not your fault you don't know what you're doing. Let the owners vote. SHELLY Like anyone's going to support you after your display on CNN! DONALD They won't dare vote me out because they'll be next! The team stays with me! SHELLY What team? Doc will leave. The players won't play. We won't have Red Bull or KIA or Yokohama Tire! It will be a death spiral! DONALD You think I can be strong-armed into selling to Zippy the Pinhead or this fucking pointy nosed ambulance chaser? I'll take him out! I have dirt on Pierce! I have dirt on the whole world! PIERCE Two billion big ones, he didn't even flinch. He's nuts. Hey. Not to mention he threatened to take me out. SHELLY Ugh. H-He doesn't know a hit man. He doesn't know what he's saying. He's got a disease, remember? PIERCE Right. Right. Shelly, the term sheet that you signed with Ballmer, it's binding. If the NBA sells to someone else, he can sue you. SHELLY I know that. I know he can sue me. I know that! I know that! PIERCE Shelly, stop. I am all over it. It is time to go to Plan B. SHELLY What are you talking about? PIERCE The revision you made to the family trust. It's time to use it. It's time to let the world know that Donald Sterling is non compos mentis. SHELLY I can't do that to him. PIERCE He has become a danger to himself. You said that. Don't think of doing it to him but-but for him. SHELLY You wanna say he was okay to sign the trust revision I gave him on Christmas, but four months later, he's incompetent to do anything. PIERCE It's a tragic and progressive disease. SHELLY Do we have to call it "Plan B"? PIERCE Hmm. SHELLY It sounds very scheme-y. PIERCE Hmm. Game six for your boys tonight, Shelly. Win or go home. SHELLY PIERCE Pretty wobbly in game five. You think they can pull it together? Stay in it? SHELLY Amazing thing about basketball, honey, your fortunes can change in the last 10 seconds. BASKETBALL CROWD BASKETBALL CROWD DOC Okay. It's over. We had a lot working against us in these playoffs. Other teams would've crumbled, but you got tougher, and even though the result of our season was what it was, I want you to know this is a championship team. Come on. DOC Come on, guys. Please. DEANDRE DOC CP, we're waiting on you. DOC "Clips" on three. One, two, three. CLIPPERS Clips. SHELLY It should be white roses. They have to cut off the dead parts or they won't bloom. People arrive, and it's just bushes. GLADYS I'll tell them. SHELLY Oh, excuse me. Dr. Platzer, how are you? PLATZER How should I be? Look, you didn't tell me you were using my examination that your husband removed from the family trust. SHELLY Oh, I-I didn't know I was gonna do that. PLATZER Your husband thinks you did. Listen to my message machine. DONALD Meril Platzer, this is Donald Sterling, attorney. You sent medical records of my head to Pierce without my permission? I'm incompetent? I'm not incompetent! PLATZER I'm a respected physician. DONALD You're incompetent, you're not a perfect fucking doctor! PLATZER I'm not a pawn in your marriage drama. PLATZER And if your husband makes good on these threats-- SHELLY Honey, he's just flailing. Aren't you used to this in your line of work? DONALD You're a horrible woman... PLATZER I'm not used to it. Listen to this. DONALD Hi, sweetheart. SHELLY Honey, it's all talk. I'll call you back. Donald, what are you doing here? DONALD I can't come see my darling dolly, my better half? I might have some buried motive like you had when you came to my house, faking concern for my fucking mental health? SHELLY I am concerned, honey. I'm trying to protect you. DONALD By removing me from my organization? Removing me? Me! What a joke! SHELLY It's our organization, and you are not making good choices. DONALD Your slice of heaven was built on my choices, sweetie. You have Gladys to break her back for you because of my choices. Without my choices, you'd be mopping your own floors in some little shack in Pacoima buying dented cans at Ralph's. Maybe that's where you'll end up after this! SHELLY After what? You're suing me? You're suing the NBA! DONALD Your whole cabal. SHELLY I'm not with them, Donald. Adam Silver gave me an ultimatum. DONALD Play Barbie Businesswoman all you want. I'm the Lord Almighty as far as you're concerned. SHELLY Jesus. SAMINI Mr. Sterling, how long have you and your wife been married? DONALD A hundred years? COURTROOM CROWD SAMINI Would you say you're partners in business as well? DONALD I'm the lawyer. I bought the team, the properties. I run the companies. I negotiate all the contracts. Shelly, she throws parties. She helps the tenant with the broken stove. DONALD She's good at it, all the little details. But management, no. SAMINI So why has she deputized herself to handle the sale of your team? DONALD She's scared of Adam Silver, who's been NBA commissioner all of 60 days. He wants to show the world he doesn't permit racism; I'm the poster boy. And that's okay, but why do you think he wants my wife to sell the team? Is there something unique about my wife? Other than she's beautiful and nice and I love her very much. The NBA doesn't want to get its hands dirty because they actually don't have the right to force me outta business. That's why they're asking her to do it. They have mesmerized and terrified her totally into washing their dirty laundry. I love her, but she doesn't have a clue. PIERCE Are you and your husband separated? SHELLY Sort of. PIERCE But you're still his primary caregiver? SHELLY I'm his only caregiver. I take him to the doctors. I put all his medications in little containers. His feet swell up. I find out what he should take. PIERCE And what have you noticed about your husband's, uh, deterioration? SHELLY Oh, he's been getting more forgetful, slurring words. He gets mad for no reason. When I was in New York to be on the Barbara Walters show, this person he was with, uh, V Stiveno, they got into an argument, and he really flared up, and Barbara told me she didn't even want him on the show because she thought he has dementia. SAMINI Your Honor, can I ask to strike? COURTROOM CROWD DONALD Do that counsel. Be a man, stand up. JUDGE LEVANAS He is standing. DONALD He wants to object, object, instead of going through a whole dissertation of what he might do. SHELLY Donald, he's your lawyer. He's trying to help you. JUDGE LEVANAS Mr. Samini, could you help your client withhold from his running commentary? Overruled. PIERCE And when did you decide to have, uh, Mr. Sterling examined for cognitive decline? SHELLY Well, he was getting distraught, and when I saw him on Anderson Cooper, I... I just didn't know my own husband. I-- I felt so bad. That's when I found Dr. Platzer. DONALD You felt bad for me? You felt so bad, you had your fraud of a doctor call Pierce on the same day she examined me? JUDGE LEVANAS Mr. Sterling-- SHELLY I don't know who Pierce talks to! DONALD Plan B! JUDGE LEVANAS Mr. Sterling! DONALD Why don't you tell everybody about Plan B? JUDGE LEVANAS Mr. Sterling! DONALD Why don't you tell how you hired quacks to write reports for you in case I didn't wanna sell to your Microsoft boy toy! JUDGE LEVANAS Mr. Sterling! Mr. Sterling! Mr. Sterling! Mr. Samini, please, let's recess. Get some fresh air. Listen to birdsong. Come back in an hour. DONALD Get away from me, you pig! JUDGE LEVANAS Let the record reflect that Mr. Sterling referred to Mrs. Sterling as a pig. REPORTERS MALE REPORTER TWO Uh, Mrs. Sterling, over here. FEMALE REPORTER ONE Mrs. Sterling! Are you happy? SHELLY I just wanted to do the right thing for our family, the players, Doc Rivers, and everyone else. PIERCE I think we can all agree that Shelly Sterling is a hero to the city of Los Angeles, the Clippers organization, and women all around the world and to me. PIERCE AND SHELLY FEMALE REPORTER TWO Mr. Sterling, how do things stand with your wife after today's decision? DONALD I thought I knew her. SETH I wanna capitalize on Ballmer's invitation to get spendy, you know, really think creative with fan swag for next season: LED wristbands... DOC I'm sorry. I didn't know how bad it was. I'm sorry I wasn't able to insulate all the yous. SETH You know, gives us potential for new growth. DOC I'm sorry, I'm just having... having trouble turning the page on last season. SETH Maybe next season we will win the championship that brings everyone together. GARY W-Whatever happens next season, it's the beginning of a new era. SETH Or not a new era, but, uh, uh... DOC Excuse me. DOC ANDY They think I'm a coward. DOC I'm not gonna buck you up, Andy. ANDY Fair. That's-- You are always fair. Look, Donald hired me out of college. He got me young, destroyed my confidence. I just-- I just found him so impressive. I started saying yes to him, and I never realized I could say no. DOC Yeah, you did. ANDY All right, maybe I did. He would've just fired me. DOC Well, Andy, here you are with the last 30 years of your life in a banker's box and a fucking Clippers commemorative ship in your hands. DOC Bon voyage. You got fired. Does it occur to you that it might've been better to get fired trying to change shit around here rather than protecting Donald? ANDY Who does that? Who sacrifices themselves like that? I mean, Elgin tried to get people to stick up for him when Donald forced him out, and y-you know what everybody said? Everybody, even the ones who privately agreed with his lawsuit. "Mr. Sterling has always been good to me." DOC Take care of yourself, Andy. CHRIS We had that image in mind, standing on that platform as champions, giving the Black Power salute to the world. Tommie Smith and John Carlos got expelled from the Olympics for doing that. Banned from future competitions and tracked by the FBI. They risked everything. You know, we could've done that. DOC Adam would've banned Sterling either way. CHRIS Yeah, but now him and Ballmer and Shelly get to be the heroes, and everybody think the league had one bad apple. If we hadn't have played, if we had shut everything down, maybe we could've made it more than about Donald. DOC We made the best possible decision in impossible circumstances. CHRIS Doc, I wish you'd let us stay mad. CHRIS You ready to eat? DOC Don't watch me do this. LEVAR BURTON Now I know why you live in a penthouse. DOC This new generation-- Chris Paul-- they let their kids see everything. LEVAR BURTON DOC I mean, even their mistakes. I would need some MDMA or something to do that. LEVAR BURTON It probably wouldn't kill you. You really never even cried in front of your kids? DOC Let me think on it. I remember one time I was misty, and a tear might've accidentally leaked out. LEVAR BURTON You ain't right, Doc. DOC Look, seriously, it wasn't even Chris crying that shocked me so much. It was that he let his son see him furious. LEVAR BURTON Mm. DOC Mm-mm, you don't do that. DOC Summer, 15 years ago: my family and I, we were living in a nice suburb in Texas, heritage oaks everywhere. Kris, my wife, had taken the kids up to the lakes in Wisconsin. DOC I was playing golf in Florida with Sam Jackson. LEVAR BURTON DOC My man. Car comes flying down the fairway. "Where's Doc Rivers? Where's Doc Rivers?" My home in Texas was on fire. LEVAR BURTON No. DOC I fly back to go see it. It's just a charred mess. Arson. LEVAR BURTON DOC We had two cats, three dogs. They locked 'em in the closet, had a party, and then poured lighter fluid on everything. Cops had a pretty good idea who did it, skinheads, but they couldn't prove anything. I just wanted the wreckage gone before my kids came back. Same thing when Donald's tape first came out. I felt like, "Let's move on. Don't look back." Don't get dragged down by shit that you can't change. I did not want us to stay angry. DOC When the fire broke out, my neighbor, who knew what was important to me, pulled photo albums and those, Ali's gloves. Yeah. LEVAR BURTON You mean, you didn't want your kids to see the remnants of the arson, but anybody who comes to the condo-- DOC Welcome to my home. This is evidence of a hate crime against me and my family. LEVAR BURTON You know the-the chains I wore in Roots? DOC Mm-hmm. LEVAR BURTON I keep them over the hearth in my living room, right above my 12 Emmys. DOC AND LEVAR BURTON LEVAR BURTON What is that about, huh? DOC I don't know. Uh, what is it to you? LEVAR BURTON America first met me as Kunta Kinte, a young African kid who was kidnapped, tortured, refused his slave name. Then I read to their children and maintained the integrity of their favorite spaceship. DOC Yeah. LEVAR BURTON Pretty soon, people began to think of me as safe. DOC Oh, the safest. LEVAR BURTON Once, I read Go the Fuck to Sleep for charity. DOC Yeah. LEVAR BURTON One of my brand partners dropped me. DOC What, you can't even say "fuck"? LEVAR BURTON I can, but there are consequences. I said, "Fuck, I lost money." DOC Shit. LEVAR BURTON If I showed how angry I really am... I'm not gonna hide it. So I keep my chains on the wall in the living room. I want my guests to know, while I am unquestionably their friend, I am also absolutely filled with rage. DOC MAC What is this? V Whoa! Hey, LeBron. No dunking on my lawyer, please. DAVID V So I haven't figured out how to make the Barbara Walters stuff part of my character arc, but you only need one chapter to get a book deal. MAC Why did you get braces? Your teeth are fine. V I have a gummy smile. The DMs I get, it's all anyone sees when they look at me. Have some more rice pilaf. I just made another box. MAC V, how much money do you have left? V Boys, could you go inside and start the dishes? Please? MAC Look, I'm not going to send your bills to collection, but I don't accept payment in rice pilaf, and I cannot wait for you to slowly write a book. V Well, why are we even still going to court? I thought you were going to get Mrs. Sterling to back off. MAC I thought she might after she sold the team. To a billionaire, what is a duplex? But with you? Oh my God. She's like the shark in Jaws. V Mr. Sterling would never let her do this to me. She probably has him knocked out on sedatives in some sad old nursing home. MAC V, you need to make some money. V Famous people can't just work at Target. I'm trying. Don't you think I'd do anything to stay in this house? MAC Look, worry less about losing the house, okay? I am handling that. But I want you to worry about how you're going to pay your bills moving forward. I want you to worry about how you're going to feed your boys. V My lawyer says I can keep the plates. MALE TOW WORKER Yo, hold on! COURTHOUSE CROWD MAC Why did you wear the Chanel earrings? V Why not? I can't buy things with the money I earned? I'm taking a stand for the American worker. I worked 50 hours a week. Oh, it's probably just my braces. MALE GUARD ONE N-No problem. If you just stand over here for me, ma'am. SHELLY Hi, Hugo. Beautiful day. I promise, this is my last time in court. PIERCE Until someone rear ends you. SHELLY V Shelly. MAC Don't. V I know that Donald can't be here to tell the truth, but if he were here, he would take my side, and you know it. DONALD Sh-Shelly, I got my cash. Do I put it in the thing? MALE GUARD #2 You can just keep it in your pocket, sir. SHELLY See you in there, sweetheart. MALE GUARD ONE Here you go, ma'am. V Thanks. PIERCE Miss Stiviano. Hi. We didn't get a chance to meet in the hallway. My name is Pierce O'Donnell. V I like your tie. PIERCE Oh, thank you very much. It's my lucky tie, a gift from my daughter. Now, going back to 2010, you didn't have any income or any paying job. Is that correct? V I worked exclusively for Donald Sterling. I drove him everywhere: to the doctor, to charities, to properties he wanted to buy. PIERCE Mm-hmm. V I was his right-hand arm. COURTROOM CROWD PIERCE And here in your employment verification for the Department of Children and Family Services, it said that you got $3,000 a week from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation. V He put that in my reference. Some weeks, I got nothing. He compensated me in different ways, not like a normal employee. Mr. Sterling didn't wanna pay the taxes. PIERCE All right, let's take a look at Exhibit 65. Your Honor. Now this document is signed by the custodian of records for the LA Clippers and Beverly Hills properties. It says there, "Unable to locate any employment records regarding V. Stiviano." COURTROOM CROWD V Well, like I said, I wasn't a normal employee. I guess that's a fake form he gave you to discredit me. He can be full of trickery. He's a racist and a liar. PIERCE R-Racist? But you told Barbara Walters that you loved him. V He was a friend. He could be sweet to me. He was my best friend. PIERCE A sweet best friend billionaire who got you a house, right? V He bought me a lot of things as part of my work for him and also because he wanted to take care of me. He wanted me to be family. He had never been inside of a Ross or a Target. We did that together, and he did things for me. He bought me a Bentley. He bought me a Ferrari. PIERCE Really? Because in Mr. Sterling's sworn deposition, he says, and I quote, "The cars are mine. I put them in her name because of her criminal record." I quote, "She was an indigent on welfare. If she killed somebody, I didn't want to be liable." V BAR CROWD DEJA Where's your entourage? V Bram wanted me to do Playboy. DEJA Skin mags for old farts. That is kind of your demographic. V Well, I turned it down, and then everyone kind of just forgot about me. Uh... the witch took my house. The judge didn't even publish the verdict, so no one can use it for future cases. Even he knew it was wrong. And Donald, he's just a vindictive, mean, bad, bad man full of BS. DEJA Where are you staying? V Airbnb out in Van Nuys. I don�t know how they can charge so much for something with no charm or amenities. My mom offered to put me and the boys up in San Antonio. My sister's out there already. She says she can get me a job at Cingular Wireless. DEJA Cool. V Hey, I'm sorry I was a dick. DEJA Would you be sorry if you'd hit it big? V No. DEJA Mm-hmm. DEJA AND V DEJA You are fucked up in your own unique way, but we all grew up under billboards of Heidi Klum. V I did. DRUNK PATRON ONE I'm Mr. Sterling's right hand arm man. V Just kidding. No, not really. DRUNK PATRONS DRUNK PATRON ONE I'm Mr. Sterling's hand job. DRUNK PATRONS V Hi. We're actually just having a business meeting, so... DRUNK PATRON ONE Oh, excuse me. I didn't realize it was a whore convention. DEJA Very important whore business. Go back to eating your Cobb salad, you little bitch. Are you serious? V Did you just take my picture? DRUNK PATRON ONE You're in public. You're a public figure, nigga. DEJA Wait, what? V What? No, you can't say that. Don't say that. DRUNK PATRON ONE If you can say it, I can say it. V I hope men like you go fucking extinct, you White piece of shit! Fuck you, bitch! DEJA Girl, ignore him. V Fuck you! DEJA He probably has rabies. DRUNK PATRON TWO DRUNK PATRON ONE And you probably have crabs. V Show us some fucking respect! DRUNK PATRONS DRUNK PATRON ONE Respect for what? Two gold digger niggers. DEJA AND V What? V What the fuck! DRUNK PATRON ONE Hey, come on! V Fuck you, bitch! I'll fuck you up! RESTAURANT CROWD NANCY To two billion dollars! SHELLY SHARON Oh. NANCY To two billion dollars. SHARON Yes! SHELLY SHARON How many zeros is that? JUSTINE How much did you buy the team before way back when? NANCY AND SHARON Mm. SHELLY Oh, 12 and a half million. SHARON Oh! NANCY That's nothing. SHARON Oh my God. Are you kidding? SHELLY I was nuts to let Donald talk me into it. SHARON What? SHELLY We didn't know anything about basketball, and the league was a mess, but it's every man's dream to own a team. SHARON Oh my God. NANCY AND SHARON SHELLY Who can say why? NANCY But did you get yourself a closing gift, a chalet in Biarritz? SHARON Mm. SHELLY No, I like being at home. NANCY Mm. SHARON Yeah, well, with your view, why travel, right? SHELLY Mm-hmm. SHARON Ladies, I'm so sorry. Would you excuse me? 'Cause I really have to tinkle. NANCY Oh, me too. It's the tomatoes. They're a diuretic. SHARON Oh. Yeah, I'll wait for you. NANCY What is a Clipper, anyway? SHARON It's a bird. NANCY Oh. SHELLY Do you think they have a drug problem? JUSTINE Probably. Sh-- Shell, it's almost a, uh, 16,000% return on your investments. That's an eye popper. SHELLY Oh, it's not two billion profit, not after the Obama tax. JUSTINE Right. But why did you need to get the duplex back? Why-- Why bother with V? SHELLY That's the principle, and I did a nice thing with it. I gave it to my housekeeper. JUSTINE Gladys owns it now? SHELLY No, I own it. She lives there. JUSTINE Does she want to? SHELLY What on Earth do you mean? JUSTINE All these years, I-I thought that maybe you had Stockholm Syndrome because you married Donald so young. I thought maybe you were serious when you're waving your divorce papers at Barbara Walters. I mean, no one would possibly do that as a stunt. I thought maybe you were finally waking up, but you were never asleep, and you're not divorcing Donald. You two were made for each other. SHELLY What? JUSTINE You both think you own everybody. SHELLY I'm sorry. I'm sorry I worked through my marital problems instead of joining you with your flowy shirts and your consignment shops and your long hugs. I'm sorry I made money. I never realized it was a condition of your friendship that I give it all up like you did. So much for sisterhood. JUSTINE WAITRESS There you go. Oh, it's been taken care of, sir. SHELLY I can't believe that you'd talk to me like that. DOC Hello, Shelly. SHELLY Oh. DOC This is my son, Austin. He plays for the Pelicans. We're thinking about maybe bringing him out for the Clippers, you know, make it more our own a little bit. SHELLY Good for you. Uh, this is my-- This is Justine. DOC Shelly, you didn't have to waste your money buying our lunch. I was gonna have my agent expense it. SHELLY Oh, honey, it was my way of saying hello. I miss you all. It's been so hard giving up the team, but I wanted to do the best thing for the players. Ubuntu, as you say. Be great through others. DOC Yeah, well, but you didn't really give it up, though. SHELLY What-- What do you mean? DOC Well, I was looking at our financials. You still have 12 tickets for every game, VIP passes, free food, free parking. If we win a title, you get three championship rings. Why three, I have no fucking idea. You are officially the team's number one fan, and that's codified in your deal, and you and Donald still own our practice space, which means you'll probably just keep taking our rent money. Looks like you did pretty good, and that absolutely fills me with rage. I know that, uh, Donald likes to eat other people's food. Maybe you do, too. After all, you paid for it. Nice to meet you, Justine. Come on, son. JUSTINE You don't own him. MAC There's another thing that came in for you. Looks like they want to interview you for a podcast. It does not pay, but it's for ESPN and a well-respected journalist. V Say no. MAC V, look. This could help you get a book deal. You have all those other recordings. There could be opportunities to cash in on some of those things. V Thanks, but I agreed not to talk about it anymore. MAC V, this could help you get a book deal. V I gotta go. MAC You have-- DELIVERY GUY Mr. Sterling home? V Uh, he's supposed to be. I can sign for it. I'm his assistant. SHELLY Don't fall asleep out here. We just had the melanoma scare. DONALD Don't worry, I won't fall asleep. SHELLY And don't forget, we have dinner tonight with the LaSordas. DONALD Thank you for reminding me. SHELLY So sad. DONALD There's no racism here. If you don't want to walk into a basketball game with a certain person, is that racism? V Honey, I'm sorry. DONALD I'm sorry, too. V I wish I could change the color of my skin. DONALD No, that's not the issue. The issue is we don't have to broadcast everything. V I'm not broadcasting anything! DONALD Then why are you taking pictures with minorities? Why? V What's wrong with minorities? What's wrong with Black people? You associate with Black people. DONALD I'm not you and you're not me. BALLMER Optimism! It's a force multiplier! And we are going to be hardcore, hardcore, and then nothing will get in our way, and if something knocks us down, we're gonna get back up, and we're gonna keep coming and coming! BALLMER CLIPPERS DEANDRE Hey! Hey, l-look at Chris! He's all, "Lord, shut this loud White man up and get me off this stage." CLIPPERS CHRIS Look, look. Wait till they show Doc. BALLMER Boom! CLIPPERS BIG BABY I ain't seen that-that cringed since I was watching your ass on Conan. CLIPPERS DEANDRE Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like your agent just sending you out to do these comedy gigs about the Sterling shit? Make it a joke? BLAKE Laughter unites, I guess. CHRIS Yeah, you gonna unite the people around roasting your corny ass. JAMAL Y'all know they can't stick a happy ending on this shit fast enough. BIG BABY I heard a theory that the NBA actually wanted us to lose. That's why the ref boned us in game five. Wanted the story to be over. DEANDRE Shit. CHRIS They own the teams. We own the league. BLAKE Talk that talk. CLIPPERS MATT Yeah, power to the people and all that, but I agreed to come to Seattle for a bachelor party 'cause I never had wings or titties in my face in the Pacific Northwest. DEANDRE AND JAMAL AND JJ MATT So Jamal, where is the strip club at, man? Where we been? Where we going? DEANDRE Where the titties, nigga? CLIPPERS HIGH SCHOOL CLIPPERS FANS DEANDRE What are all these little hoopers doing here? CHRIS Man, you want us to play drunk? JAMAL Hey, it's a midnight game. Sober up for the young impressionable children, fellas. MATT My-- My man. MALE HIGH SCHOOL FAN Hey, uh, Blake, can you sign this? My older brother and I made them. BLAKE Y'all made this? MALE HIGH SCHOOL FAN Yeah. BLAKE Yo, hey, check it out! ON-SCREEN TEXT WE ARE ONE CLIPPERS AND HIGH SCHOOL CLIPPERS FANS MATT These children are gonna wear us out. ELGIN DOC Robbed. You was robbed. ELGIN DOC Kareem just got a statue on the plaza. Might be you next. ELGIN You wanna look at my face at every home game? DOC Why not? ELGIN Thought you were trying to leave that cursed history behind. DOC That's why I want you to be honored. I can't make 'em do a statue, but I can put you on the jumbotron, and I can make everybody clap. ELGIN DOC And don't you care about your legacy? ELGIN If I cared about my legacy, like you mean, I probably wouldn't have sued the NBA for being racist. DOC AND ELGIN DOC Yeah, I guess not. ELGIN What do you think people are going to say about you? DOC Inspiring speaker, good leader, not an Xs and Os coach. Some people say that shit to my face already, single-mindedly focused on winning to the point where I overlook a lot of obvious shit, like my wife just filed for divorce, and I thought we was doing okay. How fucked up is that? But I guess you don't talk to your wife, you don't make love to her, you invest all your energy in a quest for fucking second title, that'll fill the hole, right? No, there's repercussions. ELGIN I'm sorry. You think you're over it, wanting another title? DOC No, I want one bad. But some days, I wish I'd have been like you through this. ELGIN DOC Look, I wanted to win in spite of Donald, overcome, but we couldn't. Maybe we should've boycotted. Maybe we should've shown people that we were... hit too hard to play. But I'm-- I'm looking beyond all this now, Elgin. I'm looking. ELGIN Well, this world will hit you again, and you still young enough to hit back. DOC You showing off now. ELGIN I need to shoot till it sounds right.