The start of this season has featured some wild variance for the Clippers. Each of their games has featured at least a 20-point lead, and the Dallas game went well beyond that.
But it isn’t just the Clippers who have been subject to big leads and deficits. Throughout the NBA, blowouts are seemingly more commonplace over the first week of the season. Last night, three of the ten games were decided by more than 20 points, including Milwaukee’s 47-point demolition of the Heat.
Seth Partnow of The Athletic dug into the data and discovered that 12.