One thing about this year’s New Jersey Nets: they don’t get a lot of media coverage. There’s a reason for that, they are currently 6-52 with 24 games left to play in the NBA season. To give that a little bit of context, the worst record ever in an 82-game season belongs to the ’72-’73 76ers who finished 9-73. What Joe Posnanski focuses on in his “Sports Illustrated” article is the fact that this year’s Nets don’t really look like a team that could go down as the worst NBA team ever.
This article is a little unusual because terrible teams don’t typically get an article devoted to them in a national sports magazine like “Sports Illustrated.” When sports media outlets focus on terrible teams, they typically focus on why those teams are so bad. Instead, Posnanski writes about how the Nets don’t play like a historically awful team: each game isn’t a comedy of errors and the team actually has NBA talent. It’s refreshing to see that Posnanski tries to create a somewhat positive spin on a very negative situation in Newark, NJ.
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