NBA Team’s Historic Losing Streak Reaches 28: Is This the Worst Team Ever?

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Throughout the annals of NBA history, there have been a handful of teams that have vied for the ignominious title of “worst team of all time.”

From 1992 to 1994, the then-awful Dallas Mavericks won all of 24 games total — a win total that would mark a single season an abject failure, let alone two.

The poor city of Charlotte has endured some historically awful teams in both the Bobcats (now defunct) and the Hornets. Since changing the team moniker back to “Hornets” in 2014 after the short-lived Bobcats era, the franchise has enjoyed just two winning seasons, and one lonely playoff berth.

Historically moribund franchises like the Los Angeles Clippers, Sacramento Kings and New York Knicks have all fielded some historically awful teams before turning things around in more recent seasons.

The 2013-2016 Philadelphia 76ers actually coined a term, “the process,” to describe the way in which the team was operating with the sole intent of collecting assets (rookies, draft picks, veterans on friendly contracts) for a few years, instead of trying to win games. Philly fans endured “The Process” Sixers, a team in the midst of tearing the entire team down to its studs so it could rebuild anew with those aforementioned rookies and draft picks, and saw the team set the current NBA mark for futility with 28 straight losses suffered across the tail end of the 2015 season and the start of the 2016 season.

Well, the Detroit Pistons have now tied that mark — in just a single season.

As hard as it is to imagine, the Pistons actually began the year 2-1 — a whole, entire game above .500 and technically a winning record — before free-falling to its current 2-29 record.

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