Entering Monday’s action, the longest current winning streak in the league belonged to the Timberwolves with six straight victories. No other team had an ongoing streak longer than four games.
As for losing streaks, well that’s a different story. In terms of futility, the Pistons and Spurs are on record-setting runs.
Detroit was supposed to show significant improvement with the return of Cade Cunningham, who missed most of last season with a shin injury. Instead, the Pistons have fallen into a bottomless abyss. They’ve lost 19 straight, easily surpassing their previous single-season losing streak of 14 games.
The Spurs’ franchise was revitalized by winning the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes in the draft lottery. Wembanyama mania was prevalent during the offseason and during camp.
However, San Antonio is only making news now by going 5 ½ weeks without a victory. The Spurs have dropped 16 straight, tying their franchise mark.
Both teams are in action tonight, with Detroit hosting the in-season tournament runners-up Pacers and San Antonio visiting much-improved Houston.
The remainder of the Pistons’ schedule before Christmas looks like this: a home-and-home with Philadelphia, at Milwaukee, at Atlanta, home vs. Utah, and at Brooklyn.
San Antonio’s remaining pre-Christmas schedule goes like this: two home games vs. the Lakers, home vs. New Orleans, at Milwaukee, at Chicago, at Dallas.
That brings us to our topic of the day: Will the Pistons and/or Spurs end their lengthy losing streaks before Christmas? If so, which opponent will they defeat to end their slides?
Please take to the comments section to weigh on this topic. We look forward to your input.
Spurs can make it at home vs pelicans, if not maybe vs bulls. As for pistons their most winable game is at home vs jazz. But I dont see any of them reaching 28 which is the nba record
spurs will win tonight or 2nd game against the lakers.
Want to build a team like the Pistons?
Aim for the lottery! You’ll be there year after year after year after year…
Want to build a winner?
Draft lower, and get lucky (or is it skill?) and trade or sign other key players.
That is how all the top teams were made in today’s NBA. If you are tanking to be a lottery winner, you will be a perennial loser.
Spurs wizards and pistons are 1-48 over their last 49 games combined
Trying to predict when a tanking team is going to win a game would be difficult, and not worth the effort. Their own FO’s don’t care, as long as they don’t win too many, so why should anyone else. The better question is when will the league put an end to this nonsense. Of course, that time would be sometime after the league gets a real commissioner.
Lotteries don’t ever fix tanking it just causes more teams to tank. Baseball is becoming a DISTANT 3rd favorite sport because of copying the lottery and making an even larger roster impossible to build a contender through the draft. It hasn’t worked with nba teams except with rare generationally talented players going 1st, or 2nd in Durant’s case.
That’s certainly correct. Also, tank for a greater number of years, since it now takes more turns of the ping pong balls to assure picks at the very top of the draft.
While a team needs a lot of luck (in addition to losing) to have it all morph into a championship contender, it’s also true that the NBA system through the last two CBAs has effectively eliminated the traditional paths of getting elite talent outside of the draft (FA for stars in their prime is essentially dead, and that’s caused the trade market even for quasi-stars to get insane). Then the NBA triples down by making offense easier and easier, and name stars more and more untouchable. In a bloated league of 30 teams, the case for tanking has never been stronger. It’s a growth industry and the league needs to do more than talk it down to stop it.