By Reinaldo Oliveros
Dec 24, 2023, 10:47 AM EST
The Detroit Pistons completed their collapse this Saturday and, after falling to the Brooklyn Nets 126-115they equaled the worst streak in NBA history with 26 consecutive losses.
The Detroit team makes its way into the saddest pages of the history books of the NBA along with the Philadelphia 76ers from 2013-2014 and the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2010-2011, both also with 26 consecutive losses.
Next Tuesday, December 26 and in Detroit, Monty Williams’ men will face the Nets again with the pressure to get a victory by any means possible to avoid becoming the team with the worst streak of all time.
There is still another unfortunate border in their descent into hell that the Pistons could cross: that of the 28 consecutive losses that the Philadelphia 76ers accumulated from 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 counting the end of one season and the beginning of the next.
Statistical technicalities aside, there is no possible consolation for this team that does not do justice to an emblematic NBA franchise with three championship rings.
The two of the fierce and fearsome “Bad Boys” by Isiah Thomas (1989 and 1990) and the one from 2004 with Chauncey Billups at the helm, burning from defense a magnificent Los Angeles Lakers with Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Gary Payton and Karl Malone.
The fateful path of the Detroit Pistons
Bottom of the East with the worst record in the entire league (a chilling 2-27), Detroit is now a team buried in the abyss and that they have not won a game since last October 28, when they beat the Chicago Bulls 118-102.
Aside from that win and one more on October 27, against the Charlotte Hornets (99-111), the Motown team has lost 27 of its 29 games this season.
He did not achieve a single victory throughout the entire month of November or so far in December.
The conversation around the Pistons already revolves around the teams with the worst balance and winning percentage at the end of a regular season in NBA history.
2-27 leaves Detroit with a .069 winning percentage while the worst teams in the history of the league at the end of the regular phase They were the 2011-2012 Charlotte Bobcats (7-59 and .106 in a lockout-shortened season) and the 1972-1973 Philadelphia 76ers (9-73 and .110).
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