It is the year 2019. Donald Sterling (86), owner of the now-defunct LA Clippers, sits in his room of a nursing facility surrounded by mementos of a long career. (The one on the lower left is his NAACP Lifetime Achievement award.)
"Is the game on yet?"
Donald doesn't realize it, but the NBA is also now defunct. You see, when he was banned from the NBA in 2014, he went to court to challenge the demand that he sell the Clippers. He was joined by his then wife, Shelly, who was at the same time divorcing him for having an affair with a young hottie, whose name Donald no longer remembers.
"It was V-something. Vickie? Velma....?"
Anyway, when Donald and Shellie refused to sell the team, all the NBA players went on strike and refused to play the 2015 season, which became the 2016 season, which became the 2017 season. Players like Chris Paul joined leagues around the world like the Italian League, the French League and so on. Blake Griffin is now playing for the Benghazi Bears in the Libyan League. Lebron James is now playing for the Helsinki Heat in the Finnish League. The NBA was forced to fold.
So now Donald sits in his room alone, flipping the channels looking for the Clippers game. Every year or so, he catches a Barbara Walters "Special" featuring the aging TV interview queen who supposedly retired (again) after her "final" interview with Donald.
And he waits...and waits.
"Is Magic here yet?"
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