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The new FX series Clipped, which details the end of Donald Sterling’s ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, premiered earlier this week.
The six-episode miniseries, which features Laurence Fishburne as then-Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers and Ed O’Neil as Sterling, premiered its first two episodes on Tuesday, June 4.
While the series has earned solid reviews so far — 80% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes — the aspect of the series that’s received the most attention on social media has been the period detail the series has, as it’s set during the 2013-14 NBA season, which is now a decade ago.
One viewer, for example, noticed a bus stop poster for the 2014 Jake Johnson comedy Let’s Be Cops.
Another caught the series’ ridiculous rendering of the Golden State Warriors’ Splash Brothers, a.k.a Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
In addition to Fishburne and O’Neil, Clipped — based on the ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs — stars Jacki Weaver, Cleopatra Coleman, Kelly AuCoin, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Rich Sommer, Corbin Bernsen, Clifton Davis, Harriet Sansom Harris, Austin Scott, Charlie McElveen, Sheldon Bailey, Jock McKissic, and LeVar Burton (as himself).
Sterling, now 90 years old, was banned by the NBA for life in 2014 after racist comments that were recorded and made public by his mistress V. Stiviano. The team was then sold to former Windows CEO Steve Balmer for $2.5 billion.
“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” Sterling said on the tape after seeing a photo o Stiviano posing with Magic Johnson. “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want,” but “the little I ask you is … not to bring them to my games.”
The first two episodes of Clipped are currently streaming on Hulu. Subsequent episodes will air on Tuesday nights until the series concludes on Tuesday, July 2.