AMB_BAR AMB_FOULE_EXT AMB_FOULE_MATCH AMB_INT_EQUIPES_TV AMB_JOURNALISTES_TRIBUNAL AMB_RESTAURANT AMB_TRIBUNAL ANDERSON_COOPER ANDY ARBITRE BALLMER BLAKE_GRIFFIN CHRIS_PAUL CHRIS_PAUL_VO CLIPPERS DEANDRE_JORDAN DEJA DOC_RIVERS DOC_RIVERS_VO DONALD DR_PLAZTER_NEUROLOGUE ELGIN FEMME GARY_SACKS GLADYS GLENN GLEN_BIG_BABY_DAVIS HOMME HOMME_BAR HOMME_BAR_CASQUETTE_ORANGE HOMME_BAR_LUNETTES HOMME_PUBLIC_OKLAHOMA JAMAL_CRAWFORD JEUNE_FAN_CLIPPERS JJ_REDICK JOURNALISTE JOURNALISTE_F JOURNALISTE_TAILLEUR_BLEU_BRUNE JUGE_LEVANAS JUSTINE LEVAR LIVREUR MAC MATT_BARNES NANCY PATRICK PIERCE PIERCE_VO REMORQUEUR SAMINI SERVEUSE SETH SHARON SHELLY V SHELLY What does Oprah like to eat? PIERCE Oh, she loves fresh fruit all around. She may even bring her own avocados. SHELLY 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. SHELLY PIERCE And tomorrow, SHELLY PIERCE Magic: given his cameo in Donald's whole tape mess, let's roll out lunch fit for a king. SHELLY DEANDRE JORDAN Ah! DOC RIVERS Gotta be fast, DJ. DEANDRE JORDAN Ah! DOC RIVERS You gotta read my mind a little bit. You gotta look into the future. How you gonna cover Kevin Durant if you can-- DEANDRE JORDAN Oh, come on, man! Let me go. DOC RIVERS I go-- DEANDRE JORDAN Let me do you. DOC RIVERS I go until I miss! That's the rule. CHRIS PAUL Taking advantage of a man while he getting his ankle worked out. You need to win that bad, Coach? DOC RIVERS Oh-ho-ho. I see somebody else want a piece. CHRIS PAUL We got game one coming up against Oklahoma City. I'm gonna let you touch these gorgeous hands? DOC RIVERS I won't touch you if you're fast. CHRIS PAUL You hear this shit, DeAndre? DEANDRE JORDAN Mm-hmm. CHRIS PAUL Only man a more competitive psychopath than you is me. So if you think I'm gonna kick off the semifinal-- DEANDRE JORDAN ohhhhh CHRIS PAUL Damn. DOC RIVERS Slap hand champ of the west! DEANDRE JORDAN DOC RIVERS The undefeated, the fastest draw, the man who took you through the Sterling bullshit, the man who's gonna take you to the championship. CHRIS PAUL *** DEANDRE JORDAN Oh yeah! Oh yeah! DOC RIVERS Come on now. PIERCE Are you ready to make history? SHELLY PIERCE VO Shelly PIERCE 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. PATRICK 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. AMB INT EQUIPES TV *** 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. AMB INT EQUIPES TV *** 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. HOMME PUBLIC OKLAHOMA Chris Paul, you suck! Where's your State Farm sweater vest, you corny little chump? AMB FOULE MATCH bouhhh *** HOMME PUBLIC OKLAHOMA Why don't you throw your shirt on the floor, weak-ass bitch? CHRIS PAUL I thought we were one. These White boys sound like they're ready to brawl. DOC RIVERS I don't hear nothing. CHRIS PAUL All right. JOURNALISTE So now you're tied two-two with Oklahoma City and you've got a bruised handDo you thrive under that pressure? CHRIS PAUL 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. JOURNALISTE How closely is the team following the news about Shelly Sterling's search for new ownership? CHRIS PAUL The only thing the guys are following is my lead on the court. JOURNALISTE All right, thanks Chris. FEMME H�TEL FEMME H�TEL FEMME H�TEL Going to the pool? FEMME H�TEL CHRIS PAUL 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 JORDAN Hey, Chris, looking for me. Should I invite him? BLAKE GRIFFIN Yeah. MATT BARNES Sure. JJ REDICK Sure. GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS Yeah DONALD And to ask forgiveness for all the people I hurt. NOTES VM apr�s le plan 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 partners. PIERCE BLAKE GRIFFIN They're really gonna let him apologize. DONALD I have partners in a league that's a wonderful league. I respect them. And I love every owner. Every owner knows me. I love the commissioner. MATT BARNES All these motherfuckers get second chances all the time. GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS You know they have backroom rich man deals though. BLAKE GRIFFIN mm-mm GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS They gon' all circle up their little golf carts at the country club and give him back the team on the DL. ANDERSON COOPER In this tape, you're saying: "I support them. I give them food and clothes and cars and houses." MATT BARNES Bitch.� ANDERSON COOPER And then, now, in this thing, you're saying you feed these guys who -- CHRIS PAUL What the fuck is this, a slumber party? CHRIS PAUL Y'all for real? You giving this asshole a minute more of your time? DONALD Well I think you have more of a plantation mentality than I do. CHRIS PAUL We got game five tomorrow, dummies. Tighten up. DONALD And I think you're more of a racist than I am. GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS Let it fuck you up now or fuck you up later. DONALD I will never be a racist. CHRIS PAUL No. I'm giving stupid-ass DeAndre back his stupid-ass IceMan ANDERSON COOPER For a lot of people, though, these comments caught on tape echo charges made by Elgin Baylor. CHRIS PAUL and go back to my room, pray and Skype my kids. DONALD 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 GRIFFIN What the fuck is he saying? ANDERSON COOPER And then, now, in this thing, you're saying you feed these guys. DONALD I don't know what that means. to have a mentality. BLAKE GRIFFIN What ? DONALD You're asking me about questions. What do you mean a mentality? JAMAL CRAWFORD Motherfucker, not knowing is the problem. 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. ANDERSON COOPER Magic Johnson had said that he would never attend a game while you were owner. DONALD I'm hurt, but it doesn't matter. He acts so holy. BLAKE GRIFFIN I don't think this is an apology anymore. DONALD Big Magic Johnson, what has he done? ANDERSON COOPER Well, he's a businessperson. He... DONALD He's got AIDS. CHRIS PAUL What the fuck? BLAKE GRIFFIN Are you fucking serious? JJ REDICK oh my god DONALD Did he do any business? I would like know- did he help anybody in South L.A.? CHRIS PAUL Gotta watch this shit now. ANDERSON COOPER I think he has HIV. He doesn't actually have full-blown AIDS... DONALD Well, what kind of a guy goes to every city, excuse-me He made love to every in America PIERCE DONALD and he had AIDS. And when he had those AIDS, I prayed for him. JAMAL CRAWFORD 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 I hoped he could live and be well. DONALD I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background. GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS Who doesn't do anything for anybody. JAMAL CRAWFORD Who does nothing for nobody, and his getting HIV supposed to be what he deserves. DONALD But what does he do for the black people? JAMAL CRAWFORD Man, fuck outta here, man. DONALD Is that someone we want to respect and tell our kids about? DONALD I think he should be ashamed of himself. But what does he do for the black people? SHELLY DONALD Doesn't do anything. SHELLY God! Why won't he shut up? It's awful, awful, awful. ANDERSON COOPER He's opened a lot of businesses in inner-city neighborhoods. The players on the team don't want to play for you. DONALD Do you think they all are going to walk off the team? They know I'm not a racist. The players don't hate me. I contend they love me. MATT BARNES ANDERSON COOPER You think they still love you? DONALD I do. DEANDRE JORDAN We hate you! DONALD I do. BLAKE GRIFFIN Fuck off! DEANDRE JORDAN We literally hate you! ANDERSON COOPER You believe the players of the Los Angeles Clippers... PIERCE Siri, off! Siri, off! DONALD Absolutely. They know I'm not a racist. GLADYS Push "power" on the big remote. PIERCE Yeah 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-- I know it's an "H". No, it's an "R". Son of a bitch. I saw this at the zoo when I was years old. It's not a unicorn. I know that. Fat unicorn. Don't flunk me for leaving some blanks. DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE No, that-that's okay, Mr. Sterling. DONALD DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE Now can you spell the word "world" backwards out loud? DONALD The word "world". DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE DONALD Now she wants to do tongue twisters. The word "world". DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE Mm. DONALD Sure. D DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE hmm DONALD R O W-L DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE Good. DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE Now, can you start at and count back to one by sevens? DONALD Like minus seven? DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE Yes. minus seven and continuing on. DONALD Hundred minus seven is . 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. DONALD DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE 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. DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE 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 m-mild cognitive impairment? DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE I always recommend a second opinion, SHELLY Uh-- DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE 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. DOC RIVERS It's almost game time, DJ. You skipping the shootaround? DEANDRE JORDAN I'll be there in a second. DOC RIVERS Where's Astro? You didn't bring your dragon? DEANDRE JORDAN He got loose. DOC RIVERS 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 JORDAN All I can think about is Donald talking about how we all love him. CHRIS PAUL Some happy slave shit. DOC RIVERS Where did Donald say this? DEANDRE JORDAN Anderson Cooper . DOC RIVERS You watched the shit? Why? CHRIS PAUL We all did. DOC RIVERS 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 PAUL Man, Doc, that Donald shit was everywhere. What were we supposed to do? DOC RIVERS Block it out! You show everybody that you can overcome anything to win! Isn't that what we all doing here? Isn't it? JAMAL CRAWFORD blablabla CHRIS PAUL L�, l�, l�, l� ! DEANDRE JORDAN Attention � Westbrook ! Blake ! Prends-le! MATT BARNES Il va tirer, faites gaffe ! CHRIS PAUL Sur lui ! Sur lui ! CHRIS PAUL CHRIS PAUL Oh! What was that? He never touched him! That was not a foul! CHRIS PAUL That was not a foul! That was not a foul! AMB FOULE MATCH chambrage*** acclamations ARBITRE Three. Hit. Three shots. AMB FOULE MATCH discussions, encouragements SHELLY Hello? NOTES Ballmer VM 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 $ billion. We host a titan today. BALLMER These arches- ha ha l-like the porticos of Tuscany. PIERCE SHELLY How sweet of you to say. BALLMER SHELLY Did your lawyers take a separate car? BALLMER Oh, n-no lawyers. It's just me. Uh, Steve. SHELLY How do you do? BALLMER PIERCE Yeah huhp huh... Pierce. BALLMER Ha! SHELLY Come in. Come in. PIERCE BALLMER Oh, thank you. PIERCE ha ha! SHELLY Steve Ballmer. BALLMER Not Bomber. PIERCE BALLMER SHELLY I thought his name was Bomber from the phone call, BALLMER Oh boy. huh SHELLY as in "bomber jet. It's a funny story BALLMER SHELLY Anyway, BALLMER SHELLY 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! SHELLY PIERCE BALLMER SHELLY Well, as you can see, he's bursting with positive energy, which will be good for the players. BALLMER PIERCE Tell him about the two. SHELLY Steve says his offer is $ . billion. PIERCE Already the highest bid of the many high bidders that Shelly has wrangled, I might add. SHELLY And three times as much as anyone's paid for a team so far, but-- BALLMER SHELLY 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 ha ! Okay. SHELLY PIERCE Okay ! BALLMER PIERCE To two billion dollars. SHELLY ohhh Don. BALLMER SHELLY 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. PIERCE DONALD You really have two billion dollars? BALLMER I do. DONALD ha! 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. BALLMER blabla 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! OUT PIERCE Two billion big ones, he didn't even flinch. He's nuts. Meh euh 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 seconds. DOC RIVERS 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. Come on, guys. Please. DOC RIVERS CP, we're waiting on you. "Clips" on three. One, two, three. "Clips". 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 excuse me SHELLY Dr. Platzer, how are you? DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE How should I be? Look, you didn't tell me you were using my examination that your husband removed from the family trust. SHELLY I didn't know I was gonna do that. DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE 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! You're incompetent, you're not a perfect fucking doctor! DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE I'm a respected physician. I'm not a pawn in your marriage drama. And if your husband makes good on these threats-- DONALD blablablablablablablablablablablabla SHELLY Haa Honey, he's just flailing. Aren't you used to this in your line of work? DR PLAZTER NEUROLOGUE I'm not used to it. Listen to this. DONALD Hi, sweetheart. SHELLY Honey, it's all talk. I'll call you back. SHELLY 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? SHELLY 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 hmm Jesus SAMINI Mr. Sterling, how long have you and your wife been married? DONALD A hundred years? SAMINI 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. She's good at it, all the little details. DONALD 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 days. DONALD 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 euhhh 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? DONALD Do that counsel. Be a man, stand up. JUGE 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. JUGE LEVANAS Mr. Samini, could you help your client withhold from his running commentary? Overruled. AMB TRIBUNAL 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? JUGE LEVANAS Mr. Sterling! SHELLY I don't know who Pierce talks to! DONALD Plan B! JUGE LEVANAS Mr. Sterling! DONALD Why don't you tell everybody about Plan B? AMB TRIBUNAL JUGE 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! JUGE LEVANAS Mr. Sterling! Mr. Sterling! Mr. Sterling! JUGE LEVANAS Mr. Samini AMB TRIBUNAL JUGE LEVANAS please, let's recess. Get some fresh air. Listen to birdsong. Come back in an hour. AMB TRIBUNAL JOURNALISTE Madame Sterling ! Over here ! JOURNALISTE F Madame Sterling, are you happy? SHELLY I just wanted to do the right thing for our family, the players, Doc Rivers, and everyone else. AMB JOURNALISTES TRIBUNAL 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. AMB JOURNALISTES TRIBUNAL SHELLY JOURNALISTE TAILLEUR BLEU BRUNE 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 RIVERS VO I'm sorry. I didn't know how bad it was. I'm sorry I wasn't able to insulate all the yous. SETH � �crire � �crire� �crire � �crire� �crire � �crire� �crire � �crire� �crire � �crire� �crire � �crire� �crire � �crire� �crire � �crire You know, gives us potential for new growth. DOC RIVERS 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 SACKS W-Whatever happens next season, it's the beginning of a new era. SETH Or not a new era, but, uh, uh... DOC RIVERS Excuse me. DOC RIVERS ANDY They think I'm a coward. DOC RIVERS 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 RIVERS Yeah, you did. ANDY All right, maybe I did. He would've just fired me. DOC RIVERS Well, Andy, here you are with the last years of your life in a banker's box and a fucking Clippers commemorative ship in your hands. 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, DOC RIVERS ANDY even the ones who privately agreed with his lawsuit. "Mr. Sterling has always been good to me." DOC RIVERS Take care of yourself, Andy. CHRIS PAUL VO We had that image in mind, CHRIS PAUL 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 RIVERS Adam would've banned Sterling either way. CHRIS PAUL 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 RIVERS We made the best possible decision in impossible circumstances. CHRIS PAUL Doc, I wish you'd let us stay mad. You ready to eat? DOC RIVERS Don't watch me do this. LEVAR Now I know why you live in a penthouse. DOC RIVERS LEVAR DOC RIVERS This new generation-- Chris Paul-- they let their kids see everything. I mean, even their mistakes. I would need some MDMA or something to do that. LEVAR It probably wouldn't kill you. You really never even cried in front of your kids? DOC RIVERS Let me think on it. I remember one time I was misty, and a tear might've accidentally leaked out. LEVAR You ain't right, Doc. DOC RIVERS Look, seriously, it wasn't even Chris crying that shocked me so much. It was that he let his son see him furious. LEVAR DOC RIVERS you don't do that. DOC RIVERS Summer, 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. I was playing golf in Florida with Sam Jackson. LEVAR DOC RIVERS My man. Car comes flying down the fairway. "Where's Doc Rivers? Where's Doc Rivers?" My home in Texas was on fire. LEVAR No. DOC RIVERS I fly back to go see it. It's just a charred mess. Arson. LEVAR DOC RIVERS 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. DOC RIVERS 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. When the fire broke out, my neighbor, who knew what was important to me, pulled photo albums and those, Ali's gloves. Yeah. LEVAR You mean, you didn't want your kids to see the remnants of the arson, but anybody who comes to the condo-- DOC RIVERS Welcome to my home. This is evidence of a hate crime against me and my family. LEVAR You know the- the chains I wore in Roots? DOC RIVERS LEVAR I keep them over the hearth in my living room, right above my Emmys. DOC RIVERS LEVAR DOC RIVERS LEVAR What is that about, huh? DOC RIVERS I don't know. What is it to you? LEVAR America first met me as Kunta Kinte, a young African kid who was kidnapped, tortured, refused his slave name. LEVAR Then I read to their children and maintained the integrity of their favorite spaceship. DOC RIVERS Yeah. LEVAR Pretty soon, people began to think of me as safe. DOC RIVERS Oh, the safest. LEVAR Once, I read Go the Fuck to Sleep for charity. DOC RIVERS Yeah. LEVAR One of my brand partners dropped me. DOC RIVERS What, you can't even say "fuck"? LEVAR I can, but there are consequences. I said, "Fuck, I lost money." DOC RIVERS Shit. LEVAR 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 RIVERS LEVAR MAC What is this? V Whoaa hey LeBron. No dunking on my lawyer, please. 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. m- 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 V My lawyer says I can keep the plates. REMORQUEUR Yo, hold on! MAC Why did you wear the Chanel earrings? AMB TRIBUNAL � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire V Why not? I can't buy things with the money I earned? I'm taking a stand for the American worker. I worked hours a week. it's probably just my braces. HOMME S�CURIT� 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. AMB TRIBUNAL � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire � �crire DONALD Sh-Shelly, I got my cash. Do I put it in the thing? HOMME S�CURIT� You can just keep it in your pocket, sir. SHELLY See you in there, sweetheart. HOMME S�CURIT� 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 , 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. AMB TRIBUNAL PIERCE And here in your employment verification for the Department of Children. and Family Services, it said that you got $ , 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 . Your Honor. PIERCE 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." AMB TRIBUNAL 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, AMB TRIBUNAL PIERCE 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. V 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. AMB TRIBUNAL PIERCE If she killed somebody, I didn't want to be liable." AMB BAR � �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire HOMME BAR One more. V HOMME BAR Same. V HOMME BAR *** V DEJA Where's your entourage? HOMME BAR LUNETTES Je te montre attends. HOMME BAR huh V Bram wanted me to do Playboy. HOMME BAR � �crire� �crire� �crire� �crire DEJA HOMME BAR LUNETTES Ouais. DEJA Skin mags for old farts. HOMME BAR HOMME BAR LUNETTES J'en ai une autre. Regarde. DEJA 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 V DEJA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha V DEJA You are fucked up in your own unique way, V DEJA but we all grew up under billboards of Heidi Klum. V I did. HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE I'm Mr. Sterling's right hand arm man. V Just kidding. No, not really. HOMME BAR HOMME BAR LUNETTES HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE I'm Mr. Sterling's hand job. HOMME BAR C'est elle ? HOMME BAR LUNETTES HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE V Hi. We're actually just having a business meeting, HOMME BAR HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE ohhhh V so... HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE Excuse me. DEJA Whaou. HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE 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? HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE You're in public. You're a public figure, nigga. DEJA What? HOMME BAR ohhhh V What? No, you can't say that. Don't say that. HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE 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. HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE And you probably have crabs. HOMME BAR V Show us some fucking respect! HOMME BAR HOMME BAR LUNETTES HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE Respect for what? Two gold digger niggers. V What? What the fuck! DEJA What? HOMME BAR CASQUETTE ORANGE Hey, come on! V Fuck you, bitch! I'll fuck you up! NANCY To two billion dollars! AMB RESTAURANT amb boucle � �crire SHELLY shhh shh SHARON shhh-shhh-shhh NANCY To two billion dollars! SHELLY SHARON Yes! How many zeros is that? JUSTINE How much did you buy the team before way back when? SHARON SHELLY Oh, and a half million. NANCY SHARON Oh my god. NANCY That's nothing. SHELLY I was nuts to let Donald talk me into it. SHARON You kidding? What?? SHELLY We didn't know anything about basketball, and the league was a mess, but NANCY oh my god. SHARON Oh god. SHELLY it's every man's dream to own a team. NANCY it's crazy. SHARON I get it. SHELLY Who can say why? SHARON NANCY But did you get yourself a closing gift, a chalet in Biarritz? SHARON 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 Me too. It's the tomatoes. They're a diuretic. SHARON yeah. I'll wait for you. NANCY What is a Clipper, anyway? SHARON It's a bird. SHELLY Do you think they have a drug problem? AMB RESTAURANT amb boucle � �crire SHELLY JUSTINE Probably. Sh Shell it's almost a, uh, , % 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? AMB RESTAURANT amb boucle � �crire 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. AMB RESTAURANT amb boucle � �crire 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 AMB RESTAURANT amb boucle � �crire SERVEUSE 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 RIVERS Hello, Shelly. 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 RIVERS 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 RIVERS Yeah, well, but you didn't really give it up, though. SHELLY What-- AMB RESTAURANT amb boucle � �crire SHELLY What do you mean? DOC RIVERS Well, I was looking at our financials. You still have 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- LIVREUR 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! CLIPPERS BALLMER We will continue and we will fight! BLAKE GRIFFIN ha ha ha ha ha ha BALLMER Never give up and be united! DEANDRE JORDAN Hey! Hey, l-look at Chris! He's all, "Lord, shut this loud White man up and get me off this stage." BALLMER We are going to be hardcore! CLIPPERS hahahahahaa!!! CHRIS PAUL Look, look. Wait till they show Doc. BALLMER Hardcore! Boom! CLIPPERS haaaaa!!!! BLAKE GRIFFIN haaaaa GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS I ain't seen that-that cringed since I was watching your ass on Conan. MATT BARNES oh shit DEANDRE JORDAN Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like your agent just sending you out to do these comedy gigs about the Sterling shit? JJ REDICK CHRIS PAUL He's right though DEANDRE JORDAN Make it a joke? BLAKE GRIFFIN Laughter unites, I guess. CHRIS PAUL Yeah, you gonna unite the people around roasting your corny ass. GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS hahaha JAMAL CRAWFORD Y'all know they can't stick a happy ending on this shit fast enough. GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS 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 JORDAN Shit. CHRIS PAUL They own the teams. We own the league. BLAKE GRIFFIN Talk that talk. JJ REDICK You're right. DEANDRE JORDAN Yeah. BLAKE GRIFFIN Fact. MATT BARNES Ouais GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS C'est clair. MATT BARNES 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. GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS MATT BARNES So Jamal, where is the strip club at, man? Where we been? Where we going? DEANDRE JORDAN Where the titties, nigga? CLIPPERS ha ha ha ha ha ha DEANDRE JORDAN H���� GLEN BIG BABY DAVIS haaa MATT BARNES ohhh �a craint. DEANDRE JORDAN yoooo AMB FOULE EXT acclamations MATT BARNES This is not a strip club. BLAKE GRIFFIN It looks like a high school. DEANDRE JORDAN What are all these little hoopers doing here? CHRIS PAUL Man, you want us to play drunk? JAMAL CRAWFORD Hey, it's a midnight game. Sober up for the young impressionable children, fellas. MATT BARNES h� man, man. BLAKE GRIFFIN I'm not welcomed. Man. MATT BARNES Get out of there. JEUNE FAN CLIPPERS - ANS Hey, uh, Blake, can you sign this? My older brother and I made them. BLAKE GRIFFIN Y'all made this? JEUNE FAN CLIPPERS - ANS Yeah. BLAKE GRIFFIN Yo, hey, check it out! AMB FOULE EXT JJ REDICK MATT BARNES These children are gonna wear us out. CHRIS PAUL We are really playing. ELGIN DOC RIVERS Robbed. You was robbed. ELGIN DOC RIVERS Kareem just got a statue on the plaza. Might be you next. ELGIN You wanna look at my face at every home game? DOC RIVERS Why not? ELGIN ha ha ha ha ha Thought you were trying to leave that cursed history behind. DOC RIVERS 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 RIVERS 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 RIVERS ELGIN DOC RIVERS Yeah, I guess not. ELGIN What do you think people are going to say about you? DOC RIVERS 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 DOC RIVERS 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 RIVERS No, I want one bad. But some days, I wish I'd have been like you through this. ELGIN DOC RIVERS 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. You showing off now. I need to shoot till it sounds right. [ TITRE A RENSEIGNER ] Page de Page de