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Houston Rockets quickly delete this controversial tweet to the Dallas Mavericks

If you can’t shoot a horse emoji after beating an intrastate rival in basketball, when exactly can you do it?

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The Houston Rockets ended the Dallas Mavericks’ season on Tuesday night, winning Game 5 of the first-round series and eliminating Dallas’ chances for an NBA title. 

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Naturally, there’s nothing wrong with a little intrastate rivalry trash-talking. Isn’t that right, unnamed Houston Rockets social media guy or gal who (correctly, in my opinion) believed this would be hilarious?

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Not surprisingly, the Mavericks social media team didn’t care for the tweet, but what could they do about it? Their season, after all, was over anyway.

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Also not surprisingly, the Rockets tweet lasted online for only a few minutes before somebody deleted it. Which, in actuality, probably upset more people than if the team had simply left the tweet stand.

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But here’s the most disappointing part of this entire story:                        

https://twitter.com/HoustonRockets/status/593252813712404480

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I mean, when we have to start apologizing for horse-shooting emoji, what kind of world are we living in? Yet, as always, there’s a lesson here.

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H/T The Big Lead | Photo via Keith Allison/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)

 
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