The Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, and Washington Wizards are a mixed 1-48 of their final 49 video games this season. Detroit (0-19), San Antonio (0-16), and Washington (1-13) are at present on tempo to complete with the very best odds to safe the highest lottery choose within the 2024 NBA Draft.
Detroit is 2-20, and the membership’s dropping streak is the longest in a single season in franchise historical past and second-longest total behind a 21-game skid on the finish of the 1979-80 season and the beginning of 1980-81. The streak is the longest within the NBA because the Houston Rockets misplaced 20 straight in 2020-21.
The Pistons, Spurs, and Wizards are a mixed 1-48 of their final 49 video games 😬
🧱 Detroit: 0-19
🧱 San Antonio: 0-16
🧱 Washington: 1-13
The 1 win is when Detroit acquired to play Washington. pic.twitter.com/KcPM8J0qpf
— BrickMuse (@BrickMuse) December 9, 2023
The Philadelphia 76ers maintain each NBA information, setting the single-season mark at 26 in a row in 2013-14 and the general mark at 28 on the finish of 2014-15 and begin of 2015-16. Nonetheless, their losses paid off for them on the finish of the 2013-14 season. Philly chosen Joel Embiid third total within the 2014 draft.
Furthermore, the Pistons are the primary workforce to lose 20 of their first 22 video games of a season because the 2015-16 Sixers. Detroit can also be the fifth workforce since 2000 to lose 20 of its first 22 video games in a season with some extent differential per sport of minus-10.0 or worse, per ESPN Stats & Data.
Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs’ slumps mark third NBA season with a number of groups on 16-plus-game dropping streaks
Not solely did Detroit lose its nineteenth straight sport, however the Spurs additionally misplaced their franchise-record-tying sixteenth in a row. San Antonio is now 3-18 this season, its worst begin in franchise historical past by means of 21 video games.
Washington is arguably the very best of the worst, having received three of its final 21 video games this season. The Wizards’ nine-game dropping streak was snapped on Nov. 27 towards none aside from Detroit. Although, Washington went on to lose its subsequent 4 contests.
Plus, the Wizards haven’t made the playoffs since 2020-21. Washington’s final convention semifinals look was again in 2016-17. Likewise, the Pistons and Spurs haven’t certified for the postseason since 2018-19.
The Pistons have misplaced 19 consecutive video games 😬
The longest dropping streak in NBA historical past is 28 video games. pic.twitter.com/Bxdb4jwd7T
— Yahoo Sports activities (@YahooSports) December 9, 2023
This marks the third season in NBA historical past to characteristic a number of groups on dropping streaks of 16-plus video games on the similar time. The opposite cases had been the San Diego Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers in April 1982, and Minnesota Timberwolves and Wizards in March 2010.
Moreover, the Pistons, Spurs, and Rockets all had a 14% probability to land the highest choose within the 2023 draft, the very best odds of any workforce. After all, San Antonio went on to win the lottery and choose Victor Wembanyama first total on this yr’s draft.
Wembanyama is the primary NBA participant to report at the very least 350 factors, 50 assists, 25 steals, and 50 blocks in his first 20 profession video games.
At 19 years and 338 days, he additionally turned the youngest participant in league historical past to submit 20 factors and 20 rebounds in a single sport, passing the mark held by Dwight Howard in 2005 by simply 4 days.
