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So here we are, sitting in a world where Brook Lopez won't be a part of the worst team ever, where the New Jersey Nets have a better record over the last four games (3-1) than all the league's division leaders. Thank Heavens for all that; misery is contagious, and the Hudson River permeates all our lives. But wait! There is disgust somewhere else in the NBA, embedded within the Minnesota Timberwolves, this season a commiserating partner of the Nets. The Wolves, you may remember, won their season opener -- against the Nets, of course, on a game-winner by Damien Wilkins -- and promptly lost 15 straight, thus escaping the ridicule bestowed upon the Jersey boys. But would you believe things have gotten worse? Minnesota is currently in the throes of a 16-game skid, the only consolation that 14 of the 16 have come against playoff teams.
The Wolves sit today with a 14-60 record. Them Nets have leapt to 10-64. Is it really possible that the Wolves could end up worse than the Nets this season?
Probably not: for the Nets to bottle this energy and win many more games on the way out would be surprising, and while most of the opponents over the Wolves' last nine games aren't cupcakes, six of the contest will be fought at the Target Center. But Minnesota has lost 16 straight, and the Nets are (dare we say?) hot. That it could happen is a huge indictment of the Wolves, who really weren't supposed to be this bad.
If nothing else, all this losing ain't going to help convince Darko Milicic to stick around for another NBA contract. Darko hates losing, and thanks to an early-season adventure with the Knicks and this ill-timed trade to Minnesota, Milicic now has a 2-23 record this season. In starts, he's 0-11. Yet, through the dark clouds of pain, coach Kurt Rambis has decided Milicic is his center of the future, the pivot to keep his talented power forwards honest. If we could all make such lucid decisions in the throes of self-destruction.
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