For every point in regulation, the largest deficit a team has ever faced and still gone on to win or tie — across 11,352 games with full play-by-play data (1978–2025). Use the toggles to slice by team and possession; hover the chart for exact records. The lighter line is the next-best comeback where the record is a lone game; the dashed line is an unconditional ceiling — the largest deficit ever reached at that point, whether or not the losing team came back.
| Time | Max deficit overcome | Scores | Games matching record | Record game |
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The same data, zoomed into the last 120 seconds of regulation — where a 30-second bucket would have shown only 4 points. Time reads as a countdown, the way the game clock does.