The Worst Team in Basketball: The New Jersey Nets

Matt on 02 8, 2010

Jason Kidd, rollin over in his grave. Kerry Kittles, rollin over in his grave. Kenyon Martin, rollin over in his grave.

It’s stinky in the swamp this year. The 2009-2010 New Jersey Nets are a team for the ages. After 50 games, they’re 4-46. They’re 1-26 on the road, score 89.9 points per game, (the only NBA team to average under 90.0 ppg), and have a winning percentage of .080. Ouch.

Why are they this bad? Sure, they’re core on paper is young, and you definitely wouldn’t expect them to win many games, but they’re really underachieving.

Devin Harris is a stud. He can score in bunches. Brooke Lopez is one of the better centers in the league, a league with few true centers. Courtney Lee, Yi Jianlian, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Terrence Williams (who should be in the dunk contest), and Jarvis Hayes are nice young pieces.

The team’s scoring differential per game is -11.6. Whew. That’s terrible. 1972-1973 Philadelphia 76’ers only totaled 9 wins, the lowest ever. Can the Nets do it? Can they set a worse record this year, or match that?

Detroit and Washington, the next two worst teams in the east, both have 13 more wins than New Jersey.

The Nets are so bad, they would have to pay me to go to one of their games. Okay, maybe not. They’re so bad, they’d make Michael Jackson blush…Thank you, I’ll be here all week!

You know you’re bad when you make the Knicks look like the Lakers. Nets fans should really start thinking about wearing bags over their heads to games. This is getting embarrassing.

No worries, Nets fans. The Russian Billionaire is coming. Brooklyn is coming. John Wall may be coming. Plus, you’re only 36 games behind Cleveland for the 1^st seed in the east…and they’re your next opponent.