Blinksportsnews247The Detroit Pistons’ 118–112 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night marked a new NBA record for the team’s 27th straight loss.The squad broke a tie with the Philadelphia 76ers of 2013–14 and the Cleveland Cavaliers of 2010–11, who had held the record for the most losses in a single season with 26.
Although Cade Cunningham scored 41 points, the Pistons’ season-long losing streak ended at 2-28.
On Tuesday, the Detroit Pistons of 2023–24 wrote a regrettable new chapter in the history of the NBA by being the only team with the longest losing streak in a single season.
At Little Caesars Arena, Detroit lost 118–112 to the Brooklyn Nets, their 27th straight loss. The team’s 26-game losing streak tied the records for the longest single-season losing streaks held by the Philadelphia 76ers in 2013–14 and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010–11.
How did the Pistons get to where they are now?
I can’t help but think back to the Pistons’ 4th game of the season, when they were down 10 points at home against the Portland Trail Blazers after trailing by 18 points.Something unsettling was in the locker room. Bodies were torn apart, heads down, and spirits left among the soiled clothes. The team that had previously believed it had grown up and overcome its own insecurities was exactly where it had been a season before. After that, the Pistons were never the same. Four losses in a row became seven when they glanced up. Twelve out of seven. Twelve times twenty. And so forth…
A young crew without much veteran aid was hunting about for an answer, and it never arrived. The youthful Pistons, who have never won at this level, were required to get out of a hole that few players ever reach.
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