A troubling benefit of rooting for a disaster of an NBA team is that what is really a pitiful docket of games turns into a night full of viewing pleasure. Check out tonight's NBA schedule, and my best-case scenario for the night after the jump.
Bobcats at Wizards - Clearly, the Wizards need this win. If they can pull it off against Charlotte (10-26 on the road), the Sixers will move within 1 game of the 4th-worst record in the league.
Indy at Detroit - This is a tough one. If the Pacers win, they move a game above the Sixers, breaking the tie for the 6th-worst record in the league. If Detroit wins, it becomes a 4-way tie for #5 between the Sixers, Pistons, Kings and Pacers. I say swing for the fences. I want a Detroit win here. The Sixers can hang another win on the Pistons to break the tie.
Nuggets at Knicks - The Knicks would move a full two games above the Sixers with a win, with only 11 left to play.
Clippers at Mavericks - Same situation as the Knicks. Two full games of separation between the Sixers and the 10th-worst record.
Use the comments to update everyone on any games you may be watching, or whatever else comes to mind. Biggest game for me is the Wizards. I want the 4th-worst record in a bad way, but Washington just can't win one to save their lives.
Washington has had a brutal schedule so far this month. It gets easier. Hold out hope. They haven't been losing to the David Lee'less Knicks.
I'm gonna say the home team wins every game tonight
I could live with that.
I like that the tags of this post are:
Basketball
Sixers
Tanking
Because from the looks of it they could hold a master class. In fact they are far superior at tanking than basketball- so maybe that tag shoould be removed?
I forgot the Eddie Jordan Can Kiss My Ass tag. That one is usually the first I add to every post.
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#13 is my favorite.
That one's probably "God why did Jrue pass it to Brand in the paint? I planned perfectly for him to throw it to Willie for the 20-footer"
Out of curiousity, which teams do you think are tanking right now? Normally, you see some team bench its starters or people shut down for the year for phony injuries. I haven't seen it yet. But I notice most of the teams under the Sixers have continued to lose even when they are playing other pathetic teams.
Detroit and Washington, maybe. Washington did it by trading everyone away and planting a gun on Gilbert. GSW is really trying to win. I'd say the Pacers are as well. Sacto seems to be trying to win. The Sixers are too, kind of. They're just such a mess they can't get out of their own way.
Speaking of Gilbert - the Washington DA suggested 3 months in prison for Gilbert.
"Voiding" Gilbert seemed partially dependent on jail time according to the 'experts' who knnow these things - so that could be interesting.
Wear bags to the sixers game - see if you can get a rise out of someone
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Brian (earlier question I just saw), I think it's at least 85-15 Jordan is gone after this season. Stefanski is tougher to tell because nobody's saying anything, other than Luukko a few weeks ago that Stefanski will be "evaluated after the season."
I'd like to change my statement - i misread the knicks/nuggets game - i don't expect the home team to win that game :)
Man, this Washington team may have the least cumulative talent of any NBA team I've ever seen.
As I understand it blatche is some kind of pending superstar
However he sprained his ankle early in the game
Washington started shaun livingston for gosh sakes :)
NY up on denver and indiana putting a spanking on the pistons
So I'm currently 0 for 3 :)
Knicks looking tough! Lets see if they blow it
wiz just tied it up with 8 seconds to go!
Wiz tie it on a horrible Thornton three. Headed to overtime.
How long has ratliff ben starting in charlotte?
knicks up by 5 pts and 5 minutes left, hanging by a fkn thread
The refs are helping us out big time in NY. Just reversed a good gall to the wrong call to keep David Lee from fouling out. They have been bad all night.
call
Charlotte wins in OT and Indiana will take out the pistons
Go knicks (ugh i feel dirty)
great atmosphere in the garden, new york is the greatest sports town in the world.
Yeah, sure it is, just ask any new yorker.
MSG is an antiquated pit
I'm not from NY and I don't even like the city. But I respect new york for having the greatest fans. Boston is number 2, and I hate all things Boston.
Yeah, I live here and I've been to a bunch of games and while I do believe NYC has the best fans in the country, hardly any of them actually get to the games anymore. The vast majority of the people in the stands are douchebags who come late and spend the entire game on their blackberries drinking fruity drinks. The percentage of what I'd consider actual fans drops every year, and unfortunately they get pushed further and further up into the nosebleeds. Knicks games especially are full of i-bankers and their out-of-town clients.
I'm not from NY and I don't even like the city. But I respect new york for having the greatest fans. Boston is number 2, and I hate all things Boston.
See, it's a silly generalization and it's wrong, the 'best fans' vary between sport in my opinion, not to mention that many new york (yankee) fans have a sense of entitlement worthy of laker fans
Thats your opinion John boy, put the sixers with willie greene in msg and they will sell out every game.
lol the refs hosed the nuggets again!
Yeah against Carmelo no less!
harrington is such a loser, he is probably what Speights aspires to becoming.
Clippers keeping it close in Dallas
washington has 4 wrapped up, kings play the nets tommorow.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sports/nba/Wizards-tank-in-overtime-88977447.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/03/flip_saunders_and_andray_blatc.html?wprss=dcsportsbog
Hey, Blatche is a superstar, didn't you get the memo?
And willie green would sell out MSG every night
Same source don't you know
24 and 9 in his last 16 games before last night for Blatche, thats pretty good.
What i said, and I will say it again is if the sixers played in new york they would sell out every game. Isn't that obvious?
on a side note once the eagles trade mcnab they can begin their era of tank watching fighting it out the skins to see who will own the cellar.
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