Inspired by the 2013-14 Phildaelphia 76ers, The 10 Worst Teams in NBA History
TRILLip Brooks
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According to USA Today
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/nba-philadephia-76ers-worst-teams-history/
10. 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers
Yep, they’re on the list. They’ve lost a franchise-record 24 straight games (as of March 23, 2014), and with the Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies left on the schedule, there’s a very real possibility they’ll shatter the 2011 Cavs’ record and lose 36 straight to end the season. They started the season with four viable NBA players and traded away two of them (Spencer Hawes and Evan Turner) at the deadline. The rest of the roster has a truly atrocious revolving door of D-Leaguers on short-term deals including Jarvis Varnado, Lorenzo Brown, Henry Sims and Darius Morris. Michael Carter-Williams is a frontrunner to win Rookie of the Year out of one of the worst draft classes in recent memory, so they’ve got that going for them. They wanted to be historically terrible. Mission accomplished.
9. 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats
There’s a reason the Bobcats are still a punchline, even though they’re a playoff team this season. Just two years removed from their only ever playoff appearance in 2010, these Bobcats won just seven games in the lockout-shortened 2012 season. Their shortest losing streak of the year was two games; the longest was a season-ending 22-game slide. Rookies Kemba Walker and Bismack Biyombo and solid shooting guard Gerald Henderson were the only decent players. The rest was a mishmash of the likes of D.J. White, Tyrus Thomas, Cory Higgins, Matt Carroll and DeSagana Diop. And they didn’t even get the one sure-thing superstar in that draft, Anthony Davis.
8. 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers
Obviously, the Cavaliers were going to get worse when the greatest player in the world took his talents to South Beach. But the post-LeBron Cavs were truly abysmal. Their best player was a past-his-prime Antawn Jamison. Their second-best player was Anderson Varejao, who played in 31 games that year. They lost 26 games in a row from December 30 to February 9 — an NBA record rivaled only by the Sixers’ current losing skid. They were rewarded with the No. 1 overall pick and a future franchise cornerstone in Kyrie Irving, but they only got that pick by trading Mo Williams to the Clippers for a beyond-washed-up Baron Davis. As bad as the Cavs are now, it will likely never be as bad as this.
7. 2009-10 Minnesota Timberwolves
[img]http://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/? -twolves-clips-love-0401.jpg?w=1000&h=686[/img]
First, David Kahn blew the 2009 draft by selecting two point guards in a row in the top six. One of them (Ricky Rubio) wouldn’t make his NBA debut for two more years; the other (Jonny Flynn) is out of the league already. Head coach Kurt Rambis tried to implement the triangle offense he learned under Phil Jackson, but the roster was woefully unequipped for it. Rambis also inexplicably buried Kevin Love on the bench for a huge chunk of the season, despite Love bring the only promising player on this awful roster. They traded for Darko Milicic midseason and rewarded his semi-passable play with a disastrous four-year, $20 million contract the following offseason. Sasha Pavlovic, Nathan Jawai and Brian Cardinal were rotation players. It makes the current, still-disappointing Timberwolves look like world-beaters.
6. 2009-10 New Jersey Nets
The Nets started the 2009-10 season with an 18-game losing streak. Terrence Williams, Yi Jianlian, Josh Boone and Jarvis Hayes were among their top 10 minutes-getters. A second-year Brook Lopez and a slightly past-his-prime Devin Harris were their only redeemable players. It was cool, though, because they were bought during this season by Mikhail Prokhorov, who promised to pull out all the stops to land LeBron James in free agency. They came away with Travis Outlaw, Jordan Farmar and Johan Petro. Truly historic.
5. 2004-05 Atlanta Hawks
This 13-win Hawks team featured a murderer’s row of has-beens: Antoine Walker, Kenny Anderson, Jon Barry, Tom Gugliotta and Tony Delk. Josh Smith and Al Harrington were the best players on the 2005 Hawks. And to add insult to injury, they drafted Marvin Williams over Chris Paul in the following draft and have been thoroughly mediocre since.
4. 1996-97 Boston Celtics
The Celtics went through an extended period of irrelevance between Larry Bird’s retirement in 1992 and the arrival of the Big Three in 2007, but things were never worse than in 1997. A 15-win squad was highlighted (highlighted!) by Dana Barros and Rick Fox. By the end of the season, they had their eyes squarely on top draft prize Tim Duncan, and even fell short of that goal. They drafted Chauncey Billups, who went on to have an outstanding NBA career, but they traded him 51 games into his rookie season for Kenny Anderson and Popeye Jones. That was their reward for this awful year: 51 games of Chauncey Billups.
3. 1995-96 Philadelphia 76ers
The 1995-96 Sixers may finish with a better record than the current incarnation, but they were no less garish at the time. They cycled through no less than 24 players over the course of an 18-win season, the best of which was a young Jerry Stackhouse. They got the No. 1 overall pick that summer and took Allen Iverson. The current Sixers can only hope to be so lucky in landing a transformative figure in the upcoming draft.
2. 1992-93 Dallas Mavericks
Mark Cuban bought the Mavericks in 2000 and immediately turned around the fortunes of the franchise, but they were a complete laughingstock before then. This 1992-93 squad was the low point. They would have tied the ’73 Sixers for the worst record ever had they not won their final two games of the season. They had three double-digit losing streaks, including an 18-game slide from February 6 to March 15. Derek Harper was the saving grace of this roster — the rest is decidedly NSFW.
1. 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers
The only team ever to amass a single-digit win total in an 82-game season, the ’73 Sixers are still the gold standard of terrible. Between their nine wins, they had separate losing streaks of 15, 6, 3, 14, 20 and 13. Hall of Fame point guard Hal Greer was the only historically notable player on the team, and he was at the tail end of his career and played just 38 games. No matter how bad the 2014 Sixers are, they aren’t even the worst team in franchise history.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/nba-philadephia-76ers-worst-teams-history/
10. 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers
Yep, they’re on the list. They’ve lost a franchise-record 24 straight games (as of March 23, 2014), and with the Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies left on the schedule, there’s a very real possibility they’ll shatter the 2011 Cavs’ record and lose 36 straight to end the season. They started the season with four viable NBA players and traded away two of them (Spencer Hawes and Evan Turner) at the deadline. The rest of the roster has a truly atrocious revolving door of D-Leaguers on short-term deals including Jarvis Varnado, Lorenzo Brown, Henry Sims and Darius Morris. Michael Carter-Williams is a frontrunner to win Rookie of the Year out of one of the worst draft classes in recent memory, so they’ve got that going for them. They wanted to be historically terrible. Mission accomplished.
9. 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats
There’s a reason the Bobcats are still a punchline, even though they’re a playoff team this season. Just two years removed from their only ever playoff appearance in 2010, these Bobcats won just seven games in the lockout-shortened 2012 season. Their shortest losing streak of the year was two games; the longest was a season-ending 22-game slide. Rookies Kemba Walker and Bismack Biyombo and solid shooting guard Gerald Henderson were the only decent players. The rest was a mishmash of the likes of D.J. White, Tyrus Thomas, Cory Higgins, Matt Carroll and DeSagana Diop. And they didn’t even get the one sure-thing superstar in that draft, Anthony Davis.
8. 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers
Obviously, the Cavaliers were going to get worse when the greatest player in the world took his talents to South Beach. But the post-LeBron Cavs were truly abysmal. Their best player was a past-his-prime Antawn Jamison. Their second-best player was Anderson Varejao, who played in 31 games that year. They lost 26 games in a row from December 30 to February 9 — an NBA record rivaled only by the Sixers’ current losing skid. They were rewarded with the No. 1 overall pick and a future franchise cornerstone in Kyrie Irving, but they only got that pick by trading Mo Williams to the Clippers for a beyond-washed-up Baron Davis. As bad as the Cavs are now, it will likely never be as bad as this.
7. 2009-10 Minnesota Timberwolves
[img]http://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/? -twolves-clips-love-0401.jpg?w=1000&h=686[/img]
First, David Kahn blew the 2009 draft by selecting two point guards in a row in the top six. One of them (Ricky Rubio) wouldn’t make his NBA debut for two more years; the other (Jonny Flynn) is out of the league already. Head coach Kurt Rambis tried to implement the triangle offense he learned under Phil Jackson, but the roster was woefully unequipped for it. Rambis also inexplicably buried Kevin Love on the bench for a huge chunk of the season, despite Love bring the only promising player on this awful roster. They traded for Darko Milicic midseason and rewarded his semi-passable play with a disastrous four-year, $20 million contract the following offseason. Sasha Pavlovic, Nathan Jawai and Brian Cardinal were rotation players. It makes the current, still-disappointing Timberwolves look like world-beaters.
6. 2009-10 New Jersey Nets
The Nets started the 2009-10 season with an 18-game losing streak. Terrence Williams, Yi Jianlian, Josh Boone and Jarvis Hayes were among their top 10 minutes-getters. A second-year Brook Lopez and a slightly past-his-prime Devin Harris were their only redeemable players. It was cool, though, because they were bought during this season by Mikhail Prokhorov, who promised to pull out all the stops to land LeBron James in free agency. They came away with Travis Outlaw, Jordan Farmar and Johan Petro. Truly historic.
5. 2004-05 Atlanta Hawks
This 13-win Hawks team featured a murderer’s row of has-beens: Antoine Walker, Kenny Anderson, Jon Barry, Tom Gugliotta and Tony Delk. Josh Smith and Al Harrington were the best players on the 2005 Hawks. And to add insult to injury, they drafted Marvin Williams over Chris Paul in the following draft and have been thoroughly mediocre since.
4. 1996-97 Boston Celtics
The Celtics went through an extended period of irrelevance between Larry Bird’s retirement in 1992 and the arrival of the Big Three in 2007, but things were never worse than in 1997. A 15-win squad was highlighted (highlighted!) by Dana Barros and Rick Fox. By the end of the season, they had their eyes squarely on top draft prize Tim Duncan, and even fell short of that goal. They drafted Chauncey Billups, who went on to have an outstanding NBA career, but they traded him 51 games into his rookie season for Kenny Anderson and Popeye Jones. That was their reward for this awful year: 51 games of Chauncey Billups.
3. 1995-96 Philadelphia 76ers
The 1995-96 Sixers may finish with a better record than the current incarnation, but they were no less garish at the time. They cycled through no less than 24 players over the course of an 18-win season, the best of which was a young Jerry Stackhouse. They got the No. 1 overall pick that summer and took Allen Iverson. The current Sixers can only hope to be so lucky in landing a transformative figure in the upcoming draft.
2. 1992-93 Dallas Mavericks
Mark Cuban bought the Mavericks in 2000 and immediately turned around the fortunes of the franchise, but they were a complete laughingstock before then. This 1992-93 squad was the low point. They would have tied the ’73 Sixers for the worst record ever had they not won their final two games of the season. They had three double-digit losing streaks, including an 18-game slide from February 6 to March 15. Derek Harper was the saving grace of this roster — the rest is decidedly NSFW.
1. 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers
The only team ever to amass a single-digit win total in an 82-game season, the ’73 Sixers are still the gold standard of terrible. Between their nine wins, they had separate losing streaks of 15, 6, 3, 14, 20 and 13. Hall of Fame point guard Hal Greer was the only historically notable player on the team, and he was at the tail end of his career and played just 38 games. No matter how bad the 2014 Sixers are, they aren’t even the worst team in franchise history.
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My honorable mentions
1998-99 Chicago Bulls
2002-03 Denver Nuggets
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TRILLip Brooks wrote: »10. 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers
Yep, they’re on the list. They’ve lost a franchise-record 21 straight games
24 at this point. I bet even the basketball groupies avoid them now because they can sense the desperation. Also, how the hell is someone going to win Rookie of the Year on a team this bad? -
Smh@ 3 different set of 76ers teams .. Philly needs to get their ? together
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TRILLip Brooks wrote: »[img]http://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/? -twolves-clips-love-0401.jpg?w=1000&h=686[/img]
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Glad none of our trash Heat teams made the list lol
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UltraIncredible wrote: »TRILLip Brooks wrote: »10. 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers
Yep, they’re on the list. They’ve lost a franchise-record 21 straight games
24 at this point. I bet even the basketball groupies avoid them now because they can sense the desperation. Also, how the hell is someone going to win Rookie of the Year on a team this bad?
Because the rest of the class looks like ? -
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I said this. How can this year's Sixers be an all-time bad team when there's another team in the league that STILL has a worse record than them, even in this losing streak?
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Pitino is a ? ?
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Me and my generation will always remember the ? 90s Mavericks as the first team you faced in NBA Jam
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its....JOHN B wrote: »Pitino is a ? ?
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That Nets team was sorry as ? . And the worst part is we didnt get the #1 pick afterwards. Wall should have been our PG.
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And to add insult to injury, they drafted Marvin Williams over Chris Paul in the following draft and have been thoroughly mediocre since.
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infamous114 wrote: »Glad none of our trash Heat teams made the list lol
I thought I was gonna see the 07-08 squad on this list -
infamous114 wrote: »Glad none of our trash Heat teams made the list lol
I thought I was gonna see the 07-08 squad on this list
I kept waiting for it but they never came up..
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That Nets team was pretty terrible.
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What year did the Mavs have the three J's? That squad had so much potential but got ? up literally over Halle Berry smfh.........
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKXineaZAh0
prolly da worst team i remember seeing 2011/12 bobcats shoulda been WAY higher on da list -
FuckYouSayWillis? wrote: »What year did the Mavs have the three J's? That squad had so much potential but got ? up literally over Halle Berry smfh.........
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FuckYouSayWillis? wrote: »What year did the Mavs have the three J's? That squad had so much potential but got ? up literally over Halle Berry smfh.........
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Toni braxton broke them up
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I'm surprised the washington bullets in the early 90's didn't get mentioned
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Toni braxton broke them up
My bad, got the chicks mixed up..been a while since I remember the ? that went down, but yeah it was Toni Braxton. Same thing remains tho, they let a chick blown up an squad with potential. I'll try to find the story for those that didn't know.
*EDITED* Found it: alltalksports.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/beef-jason-kidd-vs-jim-jackson/
In the first edition of Beef, we go way back to the early 90′s when the Dallas Mavericks had three young stars that were destined to do great things together. Jason Kidd, Jamal Mashburn, and Jim Jackson were faces of the future for the Mavs and the NBA. Kidd was the run and gun point guard with great vision and a knack for hitting the open man. Mashburn was the smooth forward that seemed to do everything well and Jackson provided the deadly shooting from the perimeter and 3-point range. Unfortunately, two of the “Three J’s” just couldn’t get along and soon had Beef.
The rift between Jason Kidd and Jim Jackson became a well publized beef in the media. Kidd and Jackson never seemed to mesh well on the court, but many think that the beef may have started off the court. Kidd and Jackson were rumored to have been dating singer Toni Braxton at the same time. The story goes that Braxton came to a hotel that the Mavericks were staying at to pick up Kidd for a date, but left with Jackson. Something like this could very well cause beef between teammates that never really got along in the first place.
While both Kidd and Jackson denied the whole ordeal, Braxton kept the rumors circulating, as she never really denied or confirmed the rumors. Kidd would later demand a trade in an attempt to get away from Jackson and was shipped out to Phoenix. Jackson would also leave Dallas, but would later become a journeyman in the NBA.
Was the Toni Braxton ordeal the real source of the problem between Jason Kidd and Jim Jackson, or did they simply just not like each other? We may never know, but one thing is for sure… Jason Kidd and Jim Jackson had BEEF.
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so 6 out of 10 of the ALL-TIME worst are from the post-Jordan era huh? I swear MJ's Bulls would win 10-straight titles in this day and age
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that ?
