If The Wolves Win Sunday and The Nets Lose, Minnesota Will Pass Brooklyn and No Longer Own the Worst Win Percentage in NBA History for the First Time in Years

One year ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1ocrus1/oc_in_pursuit_of_unmediocrity_forecasting_the/ ) I posted about how this day would soon be upon us, and now here we are. With the Nets at 0-2 and the Wolves at 2-0, their all-time records stand at Nets: 1700-2334 (0.42142) and Wolves: 1247-1713 (0.42128). Tomorrow (or today, depending on when/where you’re reading this) the Nets play the Pacers at 6 ET and the Wolves play the Raptors at 7 ET. If the Wolves win and the Nets lose, their win percentages will be: Wolves: 0.42148 and Nets: 0.42131. I don’t know how long we’ve been the worst team in the league, but I know it’s been a hell of a long time. Someone who knows how to edit Wikipedia please be prepared to remove the photo of my prince Anthony Edwards from the top of the Wikipedia article next to Bill Russell as the representative of the worst team ever, really it’s not fair that his photo ever got put there. No hard feelings Nets fans, the title has to belong to someone. I bet you’ll be able to catch the Clippers soon enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_all-time_NBA_win–loss_records

boringexplanation | SAC

4 | 3 hours ago

How are the Kings not part of this conversation?

ionospherermutt [OP] | MIN

7 | 3 hours ago

Y’all have been around a long long time in one form or another, I guess the days of Chris Webber and Oscar Robertson (as the Cincinnati Royals) are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

OpeDefinitely | IND

1 | 3 hours ago

Starting a petition for the Pacers to be the steward of Cincinnati Royals history between 1960 and 1967 as long as they store the records at Crispus Attucks High School.

(Ignore flair)

Mysterious_Emotion63 | CLE

13 | 3 hours ago

I love weird games with odd stakes that are actually important.

ionospherermutt [OP] | MIN

7 | 3 hours ago

yeah me too. especially when added to the fact that us and the Raptors are both 2-0 and preseason darlings, should be a great game.

slimeball_soup | CHA

140 | 4 hours ago

I can’t believe it doesn’t already being to the hornets

EchoHevy5555

58 | 3 hours ago

They are right there but the hornets lack a large number of truly bad seasons and had a pretty good stretch in the 90s

Cokes311

14 | 2 hours ago

Not existing for several years arguably helped them

ShotgunStyles | SAC

10 | 3 hours ago

The Nets are a sub-franchise of the Hornets, so it will belong to you guys soon.

io3544 | NBA

2 | an hour ago

If we only counted the Hornets history starting from expansion in 2004, they have the worst win percentage at .395, at 696-1067

Black-----Manta | MIN

101 | 4 hours ago

A historic day

Watch out Boston, were coming for that ass

Adorable_Pea_8 | PHX

26 | 4 hours ago

Bring ya ass

Dense-Discussion3951 | MIN

69 | 4 hours ago

This means something man

Primary-Paint-1716 | MIN

6 | 3 hours ago

Hang a fucking banner

dlanod | Slovenia

1 | 3 hours ago

And then take it down if you lost the next game

Epicapabilities | MIN

6 | 3 hours ago

We’re still at the bottom after 5 straight playoff seasons. The post-KG years were rough, rough times.

djokster91 | MIN

1 | 19 minutes ago

If we were to win every game for the next 5 years, we still won’t crack the upper half. Once Ant retires, we wont be even middle of the pack. That’s just crazy

New-Association-3410 | LAL

32 | 4 hours ago

Interesting. Right now, Timberwolves are the best team to not have a championship and historically, the Nets are the best team to not win a championship. But I could see Ant leading the wolves to a ring.

EDIT: To the people asking why I said Nets are the best historically, they have 2 finals appearance, got close with the KD nets, and had former glory with the ABA as perennial contenders and heavyweights before the merger. They won 2 titles. Dr. J also lost 3 ABA MVPs. Obviously, very different from the NBA and I can see why they lost those, but it probably still sucks.

So yeah, you can see for yourselves.

StrategyTop7612 | LAC

28 | 4 hours ago

Wdym best team to not have a championship? The Suns and Jazz are 5th and 6th in all time win% in the regular season.

CheeseburgFreedomMan

17 | 4 hours ago

He probably means best unis cuz those KG-era black Wolves jerseys with the little trees around the arm and neck holes were peak

__BIPBAP | BOS

4 | 3 hours ago

I can’t believe they didn’t put the trees on their new main jerseys.

CheeseburgFreedomMan

6 | 3 hours ago

Half of all NBA franchises had the best branding in their entire history from the mid-90s through mid-2000s then shelved it for the sake of M I N I M A L I S M

OpeDefinitely | IND

7 | 3 hours ago

Pacers:

2 NBA Finals appearances (2000, 2025). No series wins, and a 5-8 overall Finals W-L record.

10 ECF appearances (1994, 1995, 1998 1999, 2000, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2024, 2025). 2 series wins, and a 26-36 overall ECF W-L record.

3 ABA championships (1970, 1972, 1973)

Mel Daniels: 2x ABA MVP (1969, 1971)

Nets:

2 NBA Finals appearances (2002, 2003). No series wins, and a 2-8 overall Finals W-L record.

2 NBA ECF appearances (2002, 2003). 2 series wins, and a 8-2 overall ECF W-L record.

2 ABA championships (1974, 1976).

Dr. J: 3x ABA MVP (1974, 1975, 1976)

I think the Pacers clear and I don’t think it’s that close.

SwizzGod | LAL

4 | 4 hours ago

Best team to not win a ring? How?

grumplefuckstick | MIN

8 | 3 hours ago

I’m a huge wolves fan and im just as confused. We’ve never made the finals and were turbo cheeks for a decade. There has to be anyone else

New-Association-3410 | LAL

6 | 3 hours ago

I meant this squad and how the Timberwolves have been for a bit now, as a franchise, are the best team without a ring. Should have been more clear.

guidethyhandd | MIN

4 | 3 hours ago

He’s talking about right now bro

JackieDaytonaAZ | MIN

2 | 3 hours ago

He must have meant best team this season that doesn’t have a championship

samhit_n | LAL

4 | 3 hours ago

I think the Suns are the best franchise not to have a championship.

I think either the Wizards are the worst franchise to have a championship.

CMYGQZ | MEM

4 | 3 hours ago

I think of the teams without a ring, Pacers is the best team right now. A finals (G7 too) + ECF with the same core players, whereas Wolves “only” have WCFs and no Finals.

smkmn13 | MIN

1 | 33 minutes ago

Umm does 2022 play-in champions mean NOTHING to you jfc

SheriffHarryBawls

10 | 4 hours ago

Next up, Hornets probably

Sportsman180 | PHI

15 | 4 hours ago

Nah, Clippers are destined to be ass for a decade.

StrategyTop7612 | LAC

6 | 4 hours ago

Yeah they’ll pass us probably soon.

Sportsman180 | PHI

4 | 4 hours ago

Sorry bro 🥲

Killsocket1

3 | 3 hours ago

Hang the banner!

djokster91 | MIN

2 | 2 hours ago

That Julius Randle guy really must be a disaster. Taking the record with him from Minnesota to the Nets and all

ConstantTelevision93 | MIN

2 | an hour ago

Hang the banner

wistful_grace | TOR

3 | 3 hours ago

i was praying we’d beat them but okay i can live with a loss if this is the result

shangalang69 | TOR

1 | 29 minutes ago

hell no

PuhleaseHold

1 | an hour ago

parity era

Drak_is_Right | IND

2 | an hour ago

Wolves really hoping for expansion soon and for those teams to suck so they dont fall back to 31st.