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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Clipped episode 5.

Clipped episode 5 leaves out Shelly Sterling's belief in Donald's dementia after racist comments. Doc Rivers inspires the Clippers to victory in tumultuous times during the Donald Sterling scandal. V. Stiviano defends Donald's racist comments in the real-life interview, which causes more confusion.

The penultimate episode of Clipped titled "The Best Words" continues the show's mostly accurate portrayal of the infamous Donald Sterling scandal. In Clipped episode 5, both V. Stiviano and Donald's wife Shelly, who had owned 50% of the Clippers along with Donald before she was forced by the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver to sell the team, speak to legendary journalist Barbara Walters in nationally televised interviews. With only one episode remaining of Clipped, Donald looks to retaliate for his lifelong ban from the NBA as well as his $2.5 million fine with swift albeit misguided legal action.

Doc Rivers, who coached the...

“Untold” is ostensibly about sports, but there’s a curious connector across the new Netflix documentary series. In each of the five episodes, as the best laid plans of teams and athletes begin to unravel, TV ends up a catalyzing factor. Partly, that’s the inevitable byproduct of fame: More notoriety leads to more eyeballs and all the swirling problems that increased attention can bring.

But the parade of nightly news reports and late-night talk show guest spots also illustrates what makes “Untold” such an enticing premise to be seen through a sports lens. As the title implies, the series examines specific chapters in a variety of sports, offering the people at the center the chance to share their feelings years (or in some cases decades) later.

Some of these have a true-crime tinge to them, as with installments covering a minor league hockey team caught up in a federal...

[[tmz:video id="0_585blnvz"]] Jermaine O'Neal's got a fool-proof plan to getting Nate Robinson back into the NBA ... and it all starts with ballin' out in Ice Cube's BIG3 league!! TMZ Sports spoke with the ex-nba All-Star about the newest addition to his Tri-State squad ... and J.O. reveals he personally recruited Robinson because he knows the 33-year-old still belongs in the pros. O'Neal says the NBA scouts should have their eyes on Nate throughout the season...

[[tmz:video id="0_w7kfgf76"]] It ain't too often you see off-court action like Rockets vs. Clippers ... but Jermaine O'Neal says when he balled, some players would make it a point to meet in the locker room. "We've had a couple guys in the past that will make it known that if you camera talkers then we'll see you in the back," O'Neal told TMZ Sports. "Things a little bit different now." Jermaine -- who was in the infamous "Malice...

[[tmz:video id="0_zh7z7qa0"]] Jermaine O'Neal knows all about player vs. fan fights (Malice in the Palace, anyone??) ... so when we got J.O. at Lax, we had to get his reaction to Quinton Jefferson almost going full Ron Artest at Sunday's Seahawks-Jaguars game. "Just because we’re professional athletes doesn’t mean we should be treated like animals," the ex-nba star told TMZ Sports. "We're there to do a job, whether you like us or not." You've probably...

[[tmz:video id="0_bo4q2i8b"]] Jermaine O'Neal says Ice Cube's BIG3 league is No Joke -- telling TMZ Sports, "We ain't signing up for it to be a clown show." O'Neal -- along with a slew of ex-nba stars -- have signed up for the 3-on-3 league ... and O'Neal says he's dead serious about competing at a world-class level.  You can see in the video, the 6-time NBA All-Star looks to be in pretty good shape ... and says he and his old running buddy,...

Allen Iverson finally has a name for his 3-on-3 team, the Big3 basketball league just announced it'll be "3's Company!" The Answer will officially spread the word the Wednesday -- with the logo and team colors making their debut too. As for Allen's team, the draft is set for later this year and he'll have some big names to choose from including Brian Scalabrine, Reggie Evans and Josh Childress and Iverson's old running buddy,...

College ain't for everybody ... so says NBA star Jermaine O'Neal who tells TMZ Sports he has absolutely No Regrets about skipping school to go straight to the pros.Of course, O'Neal -- who was leaving Mr. Chow with his wife -- went to the league back in '96, before the NBA implemented a rule requiring players to be 1 year out of high school to sign with a team.And get this ... Jermaine says he doesn't...

The L.A. Clippers are rallying behind Blake Griffin ... with one baller telling TMZ Sports the entire team's got Blake's back if anyone tries to pull a Jermaine O'Neal and get in his face again. In case you missed it ... O'Neal confronted Griffin in the hallway after the Clips smashed the Warriors 111-98 ... with Jermaine clearly looking for a Part 2 of the altercation they had on the court earlier that game. We spoke with one...

Seems Kobe Bryant started a German trend ... 'cause NBA star Jermaine O'Neal took Kobe's lead and flew out to Germany for a special medical procedure that ain't exactly legal in the U.S. of A.  34-year-old O'Neal -- a 6-time NBA All-Star -- just posted a photo standing next to famed German surgeon Dr. Peter Wehling along with the caption, "Just finished up my last day of a week long of treatments out here in...

Last week, VH1 announced a new series Basketball Wives that will provide "a behind-the-scenes look at the glamorous life of a professional basketball player's wife," and said that the cast included executive producer Shaune O'Neal (Shaquille O'Neal's wife) in addition to "Jennifer Williams (wife of Eric Williams), Evelyn Lozada (ex-fiance of Antoine Walker), Mesha O'Neal (wife of Jermaine O'Neal), Royce Reed, [and] Faith Rain (Udonis Haslem's girlfriend)." But at least one of those women is...

We just discovered from the VH1 network that they are preparing to launch a new series, patterned almost exactly after The Atlanta Housewives, titled Basketball Wives. It seems as if this is the new genre now, after the success and spin-offs of all of the Housewives titled shows.

Anyway, the eight-episode half-hour series will show the wives and girlfriends of players Shaquille O'Neal, Eric Williams, Antoine Walker, Jermaine O'Neal and Udonis Haslem's. (We ask why are girlfriends on the show?)

We also hear that Shed Media is producing the series, with co-star Shaunie O'Neal also earning an executive producer credit, even though we recently discovered that she recently separated from her NBA All-Star husband Shaquille O’Neal. How this will affect the show will remain to be seen since the majority of the show was filmed before the break-up.

"Having been around these remarkable women for several years, I have...

Call it "The Real Housewives of the NBA."

VH1 is getting into the housewife docusoap genre with the new series "Basketball Wives."

The eight-episode half-hour series will show the wives and girlfriends of players Shaquille O'Neal, Eric Williams, Antoine Walker, Jermaine O'Neal and Udonis Haslem's.

"This series will show viewers not only the glamorous side of being a celebrity wife but also the challenges and hard work that go with it," said Jeff Olde, executive vp of programming, VH1. "You only have to look as far as the nearest headlines to see what sort of pressure they are up against to keep their relationships and their families together. These women truly have a strength formed by fire."

Shed Media is producing the series, with co-star Shaunie O'Neal also earning an executive producer credit.

"Having been around these remarkable women for several years, I have always recognized that behind every NBA star is a strong,...

Who would have known NBA star Jermaine O'Neal was such a horror buff? The star of the Toronto Raptors is helping fund two upcoming horror flicks,, both slated to go behind the camera early next year. Beyond the break you can read a bit more about Chris White's David, which was first announced here. The article also reveals that O'Neal is producing My Place In The Horror, which was first mentioned on B-d a week ago. If Jermaine O'Neal's mother knew what kind of movies her son was funding, she'd be, well, horrified. "When we were kids, my mom never let us out on Halloween to trick or treat," O'Neal said with a laugh. "She thought that it was celebrating the devil. So I missed out on that. But I did sneak out to see some of those movies."...