Malachi Smith leading the Nets +/- with 0 points, 0-2 from the field in 4 minutes sitting at -5 at halftime

People bought tickets to this game. Some people bought courtside tickets to this game

Bruh they had 11 after the first quarter

And WE were called the black eye of the league lol

Galveston has water, it may be dirty, but it’s water. The Nets need to go some hot, humid, and landlocked.

Those post-Jordan Bulls teams were so hard to watch. I think they had like 44 once. Wait it was 49

GOATbrook outscored by Thabo and Hasheem Thabeet, what an interesting game.

I would push back on that quite hard haha. It’s a sick dunk but nowhere nearrrr one of his best ever, russ had dunks like this basically every week on OKC

https://youtube.com/shorts/dK7NxsSv3X4?si=4p8E8cOc7ut88fFX

that game owns real estate in my head. it was one of the most jarring turning points you’ll ever see. Didn’t take a lot to break a team built on rookies and some of the dumbest vets on the planet.

also one thing I’m kinda hoping to see beaten in this BRK game- we trailed 82-29 at one point in this game in the mid-3rd quarter before y’all brought the bench in.

Gana Diop was likely on the court during the Thabeet minutes, and there’s an argument that end-of-career Diop is one of the worst 7-footers in the history of basketball. he was ROUGH those last few years

Hasheem Thabeet outscoring Westbrook is the kind of line you’d find on a fictional character’s resume. “Outperformed a

future MVP in a nationally televised game.” Put it right under Skills.

Speaking of which, someone wrote Walter White’s full professional resume and he lists “$80M revenue generated” right

above “$43K teaching salary”: https://glenbradford.com/character-resumes/walter-white

2nd round pick the same year as MKG. Probably would’ve had an okay career. He was vaguely a 3&D player, so both our coaches in that era fell in love with him.

well, before tearing his achilles and setting an nba record for longest domestic violence suspension until a different Hornet forward broke it…

He had some good dunks and seemed like he could fit the 3 and D mold for sure. He was an early second round pick by our new GM, so the type of player as a fan you love and think is definitely gonna pan out.

Was never really that good and had a bad domestic violence incident…

Started for us for basically the entire Kemba era, due to fantastic defense. but was pretty much hid in a corner and told not to shoot by the most uncreative offensive coach you will ever see on an NBA team, so he made almost no progress on that end of the floor. But still… great defender.

Got bought out right before covid hit, signed with the Mavs in the bubble, but then retired with a covid related heart condition the next year.

82-29 was the worst it got

i mean you could’ve watched the last 11 years of the Hornets, nothing really changed really until about halfway through this season lol

That’s what they should name the Vegas team, fuck it.

Tickets are refunded for the game. If you have more than 5 games all season like this ownership loses their team. Has to be stiff penalty for this shit

I know why its not a thing but they should be relegated.

How funny it would be if OKC got him before Brooklyn

Would gladly double up and lose by 140 if I get the best freshman NCAA shot blocker since AD to add beside Gen Z Michael Jordan

I was at that game. It was so amazing and almost perfect. If it had been 75-150 we would have set the record for largest victory at 75 during the NBA’s 75th season while scoring exactly double the other team

Where do they play 8 man football at? I’ve heard of 6 man. I’ll bet that pretty cool.

That was 70+ loss to Memphis a few years back. The team has taken it personal against them ever since lol

I’ve bought their tickets before to watch their opponent team play but honestly regretted it so much

It is but you’ll always have teams with incompetent management no matter what

It’s true that terrible team are a new thing to the NBA

The expansion draft will be giving half of the Thunder to Seattle, and half of the Spurs to Las Vegas.

They would be correct

This is that ol’ natural tanking. That pure bred tanking. MPJ and Clax and co. were regularly playing games but with how much it’s been amped up by teams like the Jazz and the Wizards we’ve finally put on our big boy diapers and going the full shameless tank route.

most people consider tanking to be resting guys you traded for mid season that were playing right before they got traded. And then resting 5 starters every time you play another tanking team.

Pacers are the ones who did that. Nets havent started resting guys until the last week. Yall been doing it all year.

Yeah, franchise value would plummet if they weren’t guaranteed a spot at the big table. I’m also not sure how soccer even pulls it off. I feel like if the Nets were relegated, all the NBA caliber players would leave and they would just become a g-league squad. Conversely, whichever franchise gets called up would be a bottom feeder as they don’t have an nba level team.

USL (soccer) is planning on adding another division and having pro/rel across three divisions, but TBD if that actually happens and USL is much more of an establishing than an established league, even if some teams are fairly old.

It’d never work or make sense for any other leagues though obviously. The Jets sucking every year doesn’t mean the NFL doesn’t print money. NBA isn’t quite the machine the NFL is but I don’t think tanking teams are their biggest problem.

Flattening the odds have not done anything positive.

idk how much the rules have to change for game number 60-something out of 82 in the middle of march to actually matter for a team that’s not sniffing the playoffs, let alone being competitive in those playoffs.

Very true, but that makes us fans feel even worse about the situation when you have like 5 teams trying to lose

They will still be awful