Are the Pistons are the best 2-29 team of all-time?
Detroit comes extremely close to an extremely funny win over the best team in the NBA. Alas.
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Horse, Pipe and Red Flower; Joan Miro; 1920
Twenty-seven straight losses and a 21-point lead on the road against the best team in the NBA, a team that hasn’t lost in their own arena all season. What an incredible turn of events for the Detroit Pistons, who now have 28 consecutive losses after a brutal collapse and heart-stopping final few moments in regulation.
The funny thing is that there are no actual stakes here. T.V. ratings aren’t out yet, but I bet this game did better numbers than most recent NBA TV matches. Boston is probably going to win the No. 1 seed in the East with a multi-game cushion. Detroit is probably going to have the worst record in the league with a multi-game cushion. The only stakes here are whether history continues, or whether one of the bigger upsets in modern NBA regular season history happens. Stripped of the context of history and expectations, this game doesn’t matter at all.
And yet it does, because what is sports fandom if not a pull to be surprised and delighted?
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