It took a week longer than we thought it would, but Blackballed is finally available to the masses for consumption.
In case you missed it, the documentary is available on Quibi, the mobile-video platform, and gives viewers a firsthand look of the controversy that engulfed the Los Angeles Clippers during their 2014 playoff run.
Donald Sterling, the immediate past owner of the franchise, would eventually receive a lifetime ban from the NBA from Commissioner Adam Silver after racist comments he made in a private telephone call were made public.
Although Silver’s punishment came down rather swiftly, the documentary gives a first-hand account from the view of the players who were on the Clippers. Paul, who happened to be the President of the NBA Players Association at the time, was one of them.
Paul mentioned the documentary when he appeared on ESPN’s The Jump with Rachel Nichols on Friday, and now that Michael Jordan’s The Last Dance 10-part documentary has wrapped up on ESPN, perhaps there’s an opportunity for the masses to turn their attention to another one of the NBA’s major happenings.
Writing for ESPN’s The Undefeated, Marc Spears revisited the controversy on its five-year anniversary and interviewed a number of the Clippers involved in the protest, including Paul and Blake Griffin.
Now, Paul will again be front-and-center as the first-person interviews from the players involved — many of whom privately protested and implored the commissioner to expel Sterling — will be sure to get some attention.
