As the NBA matches rage on, the Philadelphia 76ers won against the Detroit Pistons, causing their 22nd straight loss, a new record in the franchise. Within a stunning 124-92 victory, Joel Embiid scored 35 points with 13 rebounds and 4 blocks for the 76ers, while Tyrese Maxey added 19 points and 4 assists on Friday night in Philadelphia.
The Pistons, who also lost to the 76ers on a 129-111 score on Wednesday night in their home ground of Detroit, overtook its previous losing streak record between the end of 1979-80 and the start of the 1980-81 seasons, now becoming NBA’s sixth-longest single-season losing team.
In the 2023-24 season, the Pistons have allowed 2,985 points against them so far, which averages out to 119.4 PPG (Point Per Game). That’s their most within 25 games since 1968-69, due to which Pistons coach Monty Williams exclaimed: “It’s deflating.” He added, “It is what it is. It’s a lot of repetitive games.”
On the other hand, Joel Embiid, who also scored 41 points on Wednesday, recorded his 9th straight game with a double-double on 15 December, passing Wilt Chamberlain for the longest streak of 30+ points and 10+ rebounds in 76ers Franchise History.
Embiid also becomes the first NBA player with at least 675 points and 200 rebounds in the first 20 games of a season since Chamberlain in 1964-65. The league MVP shocked his teammates with his impressive offensive game, explaining that “I just want to dominate every single night.”
The Philadelphia coach, Nick Nurse, also congratulated the 76ers, stating, “They played hard, and they made improvements defensively on the stuff we saw from the last game that we tried to work on the last couple of days. Whoever hit the floor was out there trying to do the stuff we worked on, and it paid off.”
NBA’s Longest Loss Streaks
In the 2013-14 season, the Philadelphia 76ers themselves set the highest record of consecutive match losses in a single season, tying with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ streak of 26 losses from 2010-11.
This is closely followed by the Bobcats, now known as the Charlotte Hornets, losing 23 matches in 2011-12. Along with them, the Vancouver Grizzlies and the Denver Nuggets also struggled with their own respective 23 losing streaks in the 1995-96 and the 1997-98 seasons.
What is the NBA?
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is one of the major professional basketball-themed sports leagues in North America, and it is composed of 29 American and 1 Canadian teams. Founded in New York City on 6 June 1946, it is now considered to be the premier professional basketball league in the world.
The Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers are the two teams with the most NBA championships amongst all the teams, each 17-time champion. The reigning league champions from the 2022-23 season are the Denver Nuggets, who defeated the Miami Heat in the 2023 NBA Finals.
As the fourth wealthiest professional sports league in the entire world, the matches are broadcast on several channels like ESPN in America and TSN in Canada, along with its own sports-oriented television network called NBA TV.
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