FX’s ‘Clipped’ Continues To Embarrass The Clippers, Made Chris Paul Cry While Talking About Winning A Ring

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On the whole, TV fans seem to be enjoying FX’s new series Clipped, which is about the end of Donald Sterling’s ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, well enough — whether that’s due to its unintentional comedic value is another story — as it has an 88% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes (and a less impressive but still positive 67% audience score).

One group of people that likely aren’t enjoying the series, however, are the characters being portrayed in it, mainly the members of the Los Angeles Clippers during the tumultuous 2013 season.

Earlier this month, for example, we brought you an incredibly cringe-worthy clip of the actor playing (potential future Lakers head coach) JJ Redick rapping on one of the team’s bus trips and using the N-word as a punchline.

Now, in the latest episode, Chris Paul is the one being embarrassed as the writers decided to have him start crying when detailing how much he wants to win a championship.

“So how many game we gonna sit out? One? Whole series? If we go out there, my kids gonna ask me why I’m playing for a man who smiled in my face while saying all those disgusting things behind my back,” the Paul character says.

“But if we let him take everything we’ve done grinded for? I don’t want them to see me give that up. I want to win. I want to win. I want to win. I want to f—— win! I want my ring, man. Want my f——, yo,” Paul says while choking up.

Paul is being played by J. Alphonse Nicholson, an actor previously known for films such as They Cloned Tyrone, White Men Can’t Jump, Just Mercy, and television series such as Blue Bloods, Mr. Robot, Luke Cage, Chicago P.D., The Black List, and P-Valley.

Additional cast members include Laurence Fishburne as then-Clippers head coach Dov Rivers and Ed O’Neil as Donald Sterling. Sterling was ultimately forced by the NBA to give up his ownership of the team and sold it to former Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer.