People React After Dallas Mavericks Set NBA Record for Largest Halftime Lead Against Clippers

Twitter erupted after Dallas led Los Angeles by an astonishing 50 points at halftime of their game on Sunday, a record in the shot clock era.

Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers
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Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers

The NBA season is long. Over the course of 82 regular season games (or in this year's case, 72 games) you're bound to see something weird either from the exhaustion of later games or the rust of early onrd. Still, we doubt anyone had the Los Angeles Clippers getting absolutely worked by the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. The Mavs went up by 50 points at halftime of their December 27 game, shocking a Clippers team playing without Kawhi Leonard.

The 77-27 deficit at the half was the largest point difference at that point in a game since the addition of the shot clock over 60 years ago.

Mavs 77, Clippers 27 at the half. Per @ESPNStatsInfo, that's the biggest halftime deficit in an NBA game during the shot-clock era, which started in 1954-55.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) December 27, 2020

People love a train wreck. People on Twitter, doubly so. NBA Twitter didn't miss its chance to pile on the likely Finals contenders, after a historically embarrassing half. 

The Mavs are cooking the Clippers đŸ‘€ pic.twitter.com/qmdIUweEHh

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 27, 2020

#Mavs are beating Clippers by 50... pic.twitter.com/Xq82dxXssC

— Mavs Fans For Life (@MavsFansForLife) December 27, 2020

lol am I reading this correctly? pic.twitter.com/k71gCQtcJ8

— Josh Weinstein (@joshhweinstein) December 27, 2020

The Clippers without Kawhi Leonard are a rec league team? pic.twitter.com/5WYxrevSGa

— Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) December 27, 2020

STOP THE COUNT!!! #Clippers #mavs pic.twitter.com/b0brBrHVcg

— The Archbishop Of East Barnerism (@BARNINGVP) December 27, 2020

This is some 2K shit right here. đŸ˜‚ #Mavs #Clippers pic.twitter.com/T2G5xOfdxh

— edgar z. (@ejz24) December 27, 2020

Here's a summary of this Clippers-Mavs game. pic.twitter.com/Jl8sfVBq5b

— Farbod Esnaashari (@Farbod_E) December 27, 2020

What the hell are the 0.4% of scenarios where Dallas loses this game? pic.twitter.com/XXPCpq4Gbi

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) December 27, 2020

What’s Kawhi thinking right now?

— Sid Seixeiro (@Sid_Seixeiro) December 27, 2020

in Space Jam, the Monstars lead the Tune Squad by 40 points (58-18) before the scoreboard stops showing numbers and instead says "Kinda One-Sided, Isn't it?" before halftime

the Mavericks lead the Clippers by 50 at halftime pic.twitter.com/9L8bw7kTze

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) December 27, 2020

We could post 300 highlights today

— Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) December 27, 2020

Even the Mavericks' own social media team got in on the fun with their squad  on pace for a 154-54 victory over one of the best teams in the league.

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