NBA Twitter has hilarious reactions to Rockets-Clippers beef

Tom Gatto

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The Rockets and Clippers were beefing Monday night at Staples Center. The party almost continued after the game in the Clippers' locker room, but cooler heads kept that from happening.

It wasn't for a lack of trying on Houston's part. Clint Capela reportedly was deployed as a diversion/decoy to allow Chris Paul and other marauders to gain access through a secret passage. (OK, so it isn't so secret, but still.)

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That nugget, as well as Paul and Co.'s failed attempt to air their grievances with Blake Griffin and Austin Rivers, led to comedy gold from a wide-awake Twitter.

Griffin himself was able to, um, joke about this:

And wait, that's Daryl Morey's music!

Rivers was trying to be a good sport about it all, but . . .

Meanwhile, TNT's Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley had their own belly laugh over reports Los Angeles police were called to keep the peace.

What a way to end a Monday night in the Association.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.