Director: Gina Welch
Clipped reconstructs one of the ugliest scandals in modern professional basketball, tracing the fallout after a private recording of a team owner's racist remarks became public and split a struggling NBA franchise apart at the exact moment his estranged wife pressed play.
What is Clipped about?
The six-episode miniseries moves between the locker room and the owner's box as a losing organization suddenly finds itself at the center of a national reckoning. Coaches, players, and front-office staff are forced to keep performing under cameras that no longer point only at the court, while the recording's origins and its cost to everyone involved slowly come into focus. The story stays grounded in the people caught inside the institution rather than the headline itself.
Cast & crew
Laurence Fishburne anchors the ensemble as the team's head coach navigating a season upended overnight, with Ed O'Neill and Jacki Weaver playing the owner and the wife whose recording set events in motion. Cleopatra Coleman, Kelly AuCoin, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Rich Sommer, and Corbin Bernsen round out an ensemble built from front-office staff, players, and the reporters circling the story.
Context & significance
Directed by Gina Welch, Clipped arrived a decade after the events it depicts, giving the miniseries room to treat the scandal as history rather than breaking news. It sits alongside a wave of 2020s docudramas revisiting recent American institutional failures, using a single organization's crisis to ask harder questions about ownership, silence, and who gets protected inside a sports league. The series also spends time on the team's staff and support workers, people whose livelihoods depended on an organization suddenly under a spotlight none of them had asked for.
Where & how to watch
Clipped streams on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles, so the series can be followed in either language. The page itself is free to browse without an account; watching the episodes requires logging in first, through K-Time's Farsi-language interface built for the Iranian diaspora.