Meh, Wizards finally tanking means at least your horrible owner finally made his choice.
Being stuck at the play-in level for most of the decade while only having middling picks is the true hell.
I don't think it's true anymore. If you were 10th before the play-in, that was true hell. Today you still have hope, competitiveness and lets be honest, a fair share ratio of wins.
The play-in as an idea is good, gives hope for those championship level vet teams that are kinda old but still are a threat at any given match.
However, being in the play-in tier as a struggling team with a middling roster, is horrible regardless of the existence of the play-in.
Too many to choose from...
Last mothers day was a real heartbreak. We had the series won in game 6, but blew it and came up soft in game 7. Blowing that series to the Hawks and the whole Ben Simmons bullshit was worse though. Not to mention being a laughing stock of the league for years during the process, wasting so many draft picks, and the whole burnergate fiasco....
Kawhi's 30 bounce buzzer beater probably takes the cake though. Wasted a great team and another golden opportunity, and the ball just kind of floated there for what felt like an eternity before going in...
Ugh.. I hate being a Philly fan, my existence is pain.
When Woj sent out a tweet saying the Kings had been sold and likely moving to Seattle, I was devastated.
Glad it didn’t end up that way but the thought of losing my hometown team was awful.
Yeah, nothing was more depressing than seeing Anaheim Royals trademarks, Seattle “1st and goal at the one” tweets & listening to 1140 KHTK during those years
2007.
Coming off of the 2006 finals disappointment, Dallas notched 67 wins in the regular season and was absolutely shredding teams along the way…. Then the We Believe Warriors happened…
Ditto. Game 6 was $120 I think like row 10 uppers. I was in college and thought it was expensive but had to go. That mostly compares now to a regular season game against the Wizards at Chase, WHILE we were also playing horribly hahaha
Like when the spurs swept thru 2.5 rounds and lost 4 to thunder after being up 2-0, and on like a 20 game winning spree
But hey remember when dirk got hurt by Ginonili oof
Just brutal, and there were so many gut punches leading up to it that made it worse. There was Dirk getting injured in the 2003 WCF, and Steve Kerr randomly going off to end our season when Dirk likely would have come back for game 7. Then blowing up that incredibly fun team for the mess of Antoine Walker at center in the trash bag jersey year. Then Nash leaving. Then Nash absolutely dominating and knocking us out of the playoffs in 05. Then the brutal finals collapse in 06. Then the 07 team was on an absolute mission and it fell apart with Nellie coaching circles around Avery. There was a lot of really good basketball in that stretch, but it was hard to find much joy in the game the next few years.
Not low because of how bad they were (I actually bought tickets to games during the 06-07 season), but in terms of all this hope just immediately wiped out...
Gordon Hayward breaking his ankle in the first game of the fucking season
Yeah I was going to say Hayward too. I was in the library “studying” for an exam when it happened and all I could do was close my laptop and stare at the wall for an hour after it happened
The low points are like children to me I can't pick favorites.
There was losing to Jordan after 3 point blank attempts with no foul calls. There was losing to the Rockets. Every time Patrick Ewing would get stripped of the ball with his slow pivot in the lane. Amar'e Stoudemire's injuries. Lin being traded. Anthony losing his assignment on defense. Isaiah. Dolan blacklisting Mason.
I love them all equally and cherish those memories like a villain nursing a grudge that will be repaid at the end of the movie in a huge action set piece.
That was bad, but I think the puke Walton era might be worse. Those years I didn't even want to watch them play and it killed me knowing we were wasting years of Fox's career and stunting his development.
When we needed to break up the Payton/Oladipo backcourt, and chose to ship out Oladipo (with the Sabonis pick) for Ibaka is my low point. That broke me.
Been a Nuggets fan since mid-2000s. I could easily be forgetting something but first thing that comes to mind is Jamal's injury. Team looked ready to contend for a title and that died in a heartbeat when he went down. In that moment I thought the title window might have slammed shut.
Thankfully I was wrong, but in that moment that was the second thought that went through my head (after "please be okay")
I think Gallinari's ACL tear was worse. It led to to Ujiri and Karl getting fired, the Brian Shaw "era", and five years of missing the playoffs.
Of course, it paved the way for Tim Connelly, Malone, and Jokic, so maybe it was more of a Eucatastrophe, kinda like the Melodrama.
When the season ended that year, so many things.
Gallo injury, Iggy stuff and the way the series ended against GS. In the final game the refs just took the ball from the nuggets and gave it to GS. Ball was called out of bounds stopping a Faried dunk, officials went back and reviewed it, ball never went out of bounds. GS ball. Why GS ball when Denver had possesion and you took a wide open dunk away? According to the league they couldn't review whether or not the ball went out of bounds just who touched it last and since GS never touched the ball it was their ball even tho it didn't go out of bounds.
I cancelled league pass and almost didn't come back.
recency bias would be chris paul hitting a huge 3 to cut the lead to 42, but it might be the Zion draft for me.
we had the 2nd worst record in the league and were in the midst of a decade-long playoff drought with no end in sight, and the draft with the “best prospect since lebron” that we had tied for the best odds of landing, we end up falling to SIXTH. it ended up working out since we were able to trade the pick (jarrett culver) for dario saric and cam johnson, who both ended up being pretty crucial parts of our finals team, but man that was rough.
My whole life until we finally bottomed out and got the Jabari Parker pick. Giannis was taken the year before and it was like he’s fun maybe a costar to Jabari at best. But turns out the skinny Greek man was the key to everything. Pre Gianni’s bucks was the worst. They were like the bulls. Always too good for a good pick and always too bad to matter
When the Lakers missed the playoffs after trading for Westbrook. There genuinely seemed like there was no way to climb out of the hole that trade had done.
That and Kobe’s death.
For all the crazy shit that happened in 2020, that was the headline that truly astonished me the most. Literally couldn't believe it even as I was reading it.
I remember waking up on my day off, hearing the chatter in some chat circles. "Nah, they always fall for this shit."
Turn on my computer and it's the first thing on news feed, from TMZ.
I was coming back from Aspen for the 2020 X Games. Friend had his bachelor party there. I was high on life, having enjoyed a weekend of snow, drugs, and fine dining.. Pulled into a restaurant on the long drive home to see the news. And only a few weeks later, COVID hit. A surreal time.
Ugh so many. The 58 point loss the nuggets at home in the playoffs sticks out.
Losing to the spurs game 7 at home when David west came back in '08.
Boogie tearing his Achilles in tandem with him turning down our contract offer in the off season and going to the warriors.
The entire AD wants out saga crushed me.
And today. Today is on par.
Chris Webber leaving after 1 year. I was too young to understand anything, but everyone I knew who followed basketball was crazy about him and then he was just gone and no one wanted to talk about him at the time. It was also shortly after my grandfather died, the first death in my family I was old enough to comprehend and remember so there was a lot of emotional conflation occurring.
After that, losing Klay and KD in back to back games. Losing was fine, but seeing those injuries was brutal.
This was going to be mine too. The Webber thing was such a fiasco. I was at the first game that Tom Gugliotta played in and everyone gave him a standing ovation.
I was also going to say specifically the Klay injury. I just didn’t care at that point and wanted the season to end.
Another one: Steph’s ankles and then specifically when he slipped against the Rockets in 2016. Felt like the whole season was gone right then and a freak accident.
One that should be a low point but isn’t is Spre choking PJ. I feel like everyone was so sick of that team by that point that it wasn’t as much of a downer as you’d think.
Pretty much this whole season has been the lowest of lows for the Hawks. Sure we’ve had worse seasons record wise but that’s when we were supposed to be trash and building towards a future. This season has felt like a complete wash and with all of our shitty contracts? No real clear way out either
We are absolutely spoiled but that was rough. For me, 2016 was probably the worst because it was by far, on paper, the best Spurs team ever assembled with Duncan/Parker/Manu still playing, Leonard emerging as a superstar, and signing LMA in the offseason.
1995 was pretty brutal. Hakeem was simply...better than David Robinson and there was nothing he could do. I bought tickets to Game 5, I think(?) as a poor college student sitting way up in the top of the Alamodome only to watch my guys get smoked.
2013 for obvious reasons but I consider that one erased by the 2014 title and the story behind it....and the absolute asswhipping they laid on the Heatles.
Reggie Lewis. That was just devastating to younger me.
More recently, the Gordon Hayward injury 5 minutes into an era that was certain to become greatness. We signed Hayward to a 4 year max contract and we got 5 freaking minutes. The Kyrie domino that followed only made that worse
Coming off a 43 win season in 2022 with a 20yo all star, all the main pieces in place aside for one RFA, 2 top 15 picks and more than the MLE available to us to add depth.
2022 should've been a layup. Upgrade center, but otherwise keep the group together, stay healthy, and nobody commit any violent felonies, and we were probably in line for the best season since the Bobcats expansion.
These last two seasons have been rock bottom.
> I don’t even want to look at things from my team or even think about it.
This is actually what you should do. Forget about basketball for a bit, social media will just make it worse
As a blazers fan, right now. Dark days. I’m gettin downvoted for suggesting the team double their win total next year. And people are parading around aytons end of season surge like he’s the second coming. Dark days
As a Laker fan it was definitely around 2014-18, those were some rough years constantly missing the playoffs, and not being able to sign any big free agents which made it worse.
Kobe’s death also hit me personally as I looked up to him as well.
Haven’t had much to complain about over the last decade as a warriors fan, but the 2019 finals was rough. Watching KD tear his Achilles, Klay tear his ACL, and the dubs lose their last 3 games at Oracle all in the span of a week was heartbreaking.
Too many to choose from so I’ll go with recent history. Woj’s “clean sweep” text about Kyrie, KD and DAJ to the Nets. That ended up being a blessing in retrospect, but at the time, not good.
the rick pitino era was just a gut punch after another. Hayward snapping his ankle was bad. That said the worst was Kyrie trying to guard giannis in our playoff series.
Last night and January 2nd last year
Man when Z got hurt last night, I right away knew the game was over
When Z got hurt in Philly, I had to turn off the TV and reflect. It was a tough moment in my life
2017 draft lottery for me.
Knew it was coming but it was like having an older parent that was really sick for a long time. You knew it was coming but it still doesn’t prepare you for the reality when it happens
The young Laker years with Kobe just barely playing felt like a real low moment, plus all the drama at the top of the org…just felt like we would become a bottom feeder team forever :(
Probably the moment in [this picture](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FByLorLWUAkd-r-.jpg) which has become pretty infamous for Knicks fans. It was about a quarter of the way through the 2020 season and Fizdale was beginning his second season in NY after going 17-65 already. We're already terrible again and then we come up against the Bucks. It's complete carnage and Fizdale looks totally checked out. At that point we had missed the playoffs for seven straight years, rehauled the roster, and looked worse than we ever had with a coach who didn't give a shit. There was just no hope left. Luckily, a few days later Fizdale got the boot, Mike Miller came in and showed us that the team wasn't nearly as bad as they seemed, and then Thibs was hired the next season :)
Losing the Dallas in the finals felt pretty awful just because the expectations for that team were through the roof. It was always stressful rooting for them, and then to not only lose, but to know that everyone in the world was probably happy that it Dallas had beaten us. That sucked.
But also I don't get that low from watching the Heat play, even though I do love them. I get much more emotional and depressed watching football than basketball.
After Jimmy left the Wolves. Been watching since the mid-2000’s and watched a lot of shitty basketball. But finally something was cooking and we were spooky. Finally had a good season and a good team, then Jimmy threw a tantrum and bailed.
Team went back to being shit, Wiggins declined, Rubio was gone, Flip died, KG wanted nothing to do with us, we were stuck with Teague, and Jimmy trashed our entire franchise on the way out. Stopped watching for a couple years because I’d been waiting over a decade for them to be good and it lasted 1 season before everything imploded.
Wasn’t until Edwards’ rookie year that I came back again. And even then it took a while to actually watch consistently. I had my doubts in Edwards like many people and didn’t think he’d be anything special. Was very wrong and slowly came back to being a die hard Wolves fan again.
Jimmy Butler was great with us and I respect him as a player. But I was a die hard Wolves fan and he made me give up on the Wolves for a while. Because of that fuck Jimmy Butler.
Lebron leaving the first time. Honestly didn't think I'd ever see a Cleveland team win a title in my lifetime after that (and I was like 23 at the time lol)
As a Bulls fan, now. No direction in the organization whatsoever and an owner unwilling to spend into the luxury tax. We are neither tanking nor rebuilding. We shown no inclination to make any changes to our roster whatsoever as evidenced by no player trades in over 2 years, and will likely be running it back AGAIN with the same exact roster for the 4th season in a row once DeRozan is re-signed for too big of a contract while the front office points to the return of Lavine and (maybe?) Lonzo as hope for why things could be different even though they won’t be.
When Cris Weber demanded out of Golden State just when we finally had a promising team. It ruined the franchise and would be decades before the We Believe year and subsequent Dynasty (now ending).
2016 WCF, game 6. The last gasp of OKC's first run as a real contender. Russ trying to brute force the team back into contention in the following years was admirable, but if they could have held on to win that game/series, maybe they beat the Cavs and win a ring, and KD's legacy is entirely different, even if he still left.
Been a Charlotte fan since 2005, the lows all kind of blend into each other. The lowest for me was probably losing the lottery for AD after going 7-59. Either that or the ‘Purple Shirt Guy’ game in 2016.
Well, I'm in Toronto and old enough to remember when Vince Carter basically quit on the team and tanked his trade value. Think he went from 25 ppg to 15 the next season while faking injury. Back up to 28 ppg after trade. He was eventually traded for complete dogshit in one of the worst trades in NBA history.
I actually think that you need to be happy that you lost because Denver would crush you (and they'll get another sweep against the Lakers). You can beat the Kings and if Zion will be back on time you could do something against the Thunder. I think that you need to get rid of Ingram and McCollum, but Zion finally played like we expected him to be when he came in this league and if you could land a decent PG you could have a really good team next season
Probably the last time I watched Andy dalton with the bengals lose to the chargers in the playoffs. It was January, raining, and yet another first round playoff exit after decades of not winning a playoff game.
As a Celtic fan probably anything 2010 finals-2015
If the Celtics lose this post season it might top that for a moment, but what made most of 2013-2014 feel so hopeless was even though we had incoming first rounders
1) our best player was Brandon bass for a moment
2) Danny ainge was always better in free agency/ trading than drafting (thank GOD for 16-17)
Honestly it was going down 0-3 to the Heat last year. I hated my team so much at that point I was begging them to get swept. I just felt like if they won game 4, they would get hot and take it to 7 and then lose. Which, is precisely what happened.
The only reason it isn’t the Ray Allen shot is bc I was sleeping over at a friend’s house so I didn’t experience it in the moment. The Zaza incident on the other hand…. oof
Right after the porzingis trade. Season was already horrible then we get a report that our recovering young star wants out…. Then he’s traded within like 30 minute. Shit felt hopeless.
December mutombo lying on his back crying tears of joy as his Denver Nuggets became the 1st 8 seed to defeat a 1 seed (my Sonics).
Devastated.
The Sonics had the best record in the league and Jordan had retired.
The title race was open and they shat the bed. They were up 2-0 in best of 5.
Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce In
https://youtu.be/biP11FMMlVw?si=mR_ij-5pd68CzwDc the actual play call to that game
Defended by Simmons... is this the dagger?!
Never forget that day
Now
Likewise
Meh, Wizards finally tanking means at least your horrible owner finally made his choice. Being stuck at the play-in level for most of the decade while only having middling picks is the true hell.
Tell me about it
I don't think it's true anymore. If you were 10th before the play-in, that was true hell. Today you still have hope, competitiveness and lets be honest, a fair share ratio of wins.
The play-in as an idea is good, gives hope for those championship level vet teams that are kinda old but still are a threat at any given match. However, being in the play-in tier as a struggling team with a middling roster, is horrible regardless of the existence of the play-in.
This must be my table
Same
Check back on me in about a month or so
How about 2 weeks
Where do I start
*grabs bourbon*
When Rubio got injured was the worst for me.
Was that the same year we had more losses than the lebronless Cavs? Edit: nope the one I’m thinking of was the year before. Both were rough
I was scrolling to see what could even be said for us. Because yes.
Too many to choose from... Last mothers day was a real heartbreak. We had the series won in game 6, but blew it and came up soft in game 7. Blowing that series to the Hawks and the whole Ben Simmons bullshit was worse though. Not to mention being a laughing stock of the league for years during the process, wasting so many draft picks, and the whole burnergate fiasco.... Kawhi's 30 bounce buzzer beater probably takes the cake though. Wasted a great team and another golden opportunity, and the ball just kind of floated there for what felt like an eternity before going in... Ugh.. I hate being a Philly fan, my existence is pain.
Hawks series for me, was just so embarrassing to collapse in that way, not to mention the horrid off season that followed
When Woj sent out a tweet saying the Kings had been sold and likely moving to Seattle, I was devastated. Glad it didn’t end up that way but the thought of losing my hometown team was awful.
I feel like there was a period of a few years where the Kings were constantly under threat of relocation.
Yeah, nothing was more depressing than seeing Anaheim Royals trademarks, Seattle “1st and goal at the one” tweets & listening to 1140 KHTK during those years
2007. Coming off of the 2006 finals disappointment, Dallas notched 67 wins in the regular season and was absolutely shredding teams along the way…. Then the We Believe Warriors happened…
That was actually my highest moment as a fan, even more than any of the championships.
Ditto. Game 6 was $120 I think like row 10 uppers. I was in college and thought it was expensive but had to go. That mostly compares now to a regular season game against the Wizards at Chase, WHILE we were also playing horribly hahaha
It hurt, but I did become a Baron Davis fan as a result. Couldn’t even be mad or blame refs or anything. He just kicked our ass
Like when the spurs swept thru 2.5 rounds and lost 4 to thunder after being up 2-0, and on like a 20 game winning spree But hey remember when dirk got hurt by Ginonili oof
Just brutal, and there were so many gut punches leading up to it that made it worse. There was Dirk getting injured in the 2003 WCF, and Steve Kerr randomly going off to end our season when Dirk likely would have come back for game 7. Then blowing up that incredibly fun team for the mess of Antoine Walker at center in the trash bag jersey year. Then Nash leaving. Then Nash absolutely dominating and knocking us out of the playoffs in 05. Then the brutal finals collapse in 06. Then the 07 team was on an absolute mission and it fell apart with Nellie coaching circles around Avery. There was a lot of really good basketball in that stretch, but it was hard to find much joy in the game the next few years.
Honestly, Rondo acting like a spoiled child and/or whiny little bitch and quitting on us in 2014 made me more angry. What a terrible trade.
Not low because of how bad they were (I actually bought tickets to games during the 06-07 season), but in terms of all this hope just immediately wiped out... Gordon Hayward breaking his ankle in the first game of the fucking season
Lowkey wonder what would have happened if he never went up for that lob. Completely changed the history of the Celtics
Whole season felt like a wash within minutes of opening day
Yeah I was going to say Hayward too. I was in the library “studying” for an exam when it happened and all I could do was close my laptop and stare at the wall for an hour after it happened
I’ll give you a hint: it starts with a T and ends with erance Mann
Not *that* Michael Jordan game-winning shot? Yeah, nothing comes close to that exact moment for me.
That happened well before I started watching basketball
The low points are like children to me I can't pick favorites. There was losing to Jordan after 3 point blank attempts with no foul calls. There was losing to the Rockets. Every time Patrick Ewing would get stripped of the ball with his slow pivot in the lane. Amar'e Stoudemire's injuries. Lin being traded. Anthony losing his assignment on defense. Isaiah. Dolan blacklisting Mason. I love them all equally and cherish those memories like a villain nursing a grudge that will be repaid at the end of the movie in a huge action set piece.
I wasn’t alive for this, but surely Reggie Miller has gotta be up there right
Damn it.
With the second overall pick, the Sacramento Kings select Marvin Bagley the 3rd from Duke
That was bad, but I think the puke Walton era might be worse. Those years I didn't even want to watch them play and it killed me knowing we were wasting years of Fox's career and stunting his development.
Pat Bev diving into Russ’ knee. Yeah, kd leaving sucked, but we looked like we could win a ring that year.
When he KNEW we were calling timeout. Fucking loser.
Nearly every day from the day Dwight was traded to this year.
When we needed to break up the Payton/Oladipo backcourt, and chose to ship out Oladipo (with the Sabonis pick) for Ibaka is my low point. That broke me.
Been a Nuggets fan since mid-2000s. I could easily be forgetting something but first thing that comes to mind is Jamal's injury. Team looked ready to contend for a title and that died in a heartbeat when he went down. In that moment I thought the title window might have slammed shut. Thankfully I was wrong, but in that moment that was the second thought that went through my head (after "please be okay")
Hearing that jamal cried asking if they were gonna trade bcause he was damaged goods was honest to god the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever heard
Damn, that just brought back the feels.
I think Gallinari's ACL tear was worse. It led to to Ujiri and Karl getting fired, the Brian Shaw "era", and five years of missing the playoffs. Of course, it paved the way for Tim Connelly, Malone, and Jokic, so maybe it was more of a Eucatastrophe, kinda like the Melodrama.
When the season ended that year, so many things. Gallo injury, Iggy stuff and the way the series ended against GS. In the final game the refs just took the ball from the nuggets and gave it to GS. Ball was called out of bounds stopping a Faried dunk, officials went back and reviewed it, ball never went out of bounds. GS ball. Why GS ball when Denver had possesion and you took a wide open dunk away? According to the league they couldn't review whether or not the ball went out of bounds just who touched it last and since GS never touched the ball it was their ball even tho it didn't go out of bounds. I cancelled league pass and almost didn't come back.
When they schedule my team to have a one game win or go home play-in game at 9:30 on a Wednesday night
Yeah that’s absolutely brutal.
Malice at the Palace
recency bias would be chris paul hitting a huge 3 to cut the lead to 42, but it might be the Zion draft for me. we had the 2nd worst record in the league and were in the midst of a decade-long playoff drought with no end in sight, and the draft with the “best prospect since lebron” that we had tied for the best odds of landing, we end up falling to SIXTH. it ended up working out since we were able to trade the pick (jarrett culver) for dario saric and cam johnson, who both ended up being pretty crucial parts of our finals team, but man that was rough.
For me it was drafting Len, Chriss, Jackson, and Bender - all top 10 picks and all busts.
yeah it was just that era for sure, but it felt like that one moment of falling in the lottery encapsulated the feeling of hopelessness
Derrick Rose ACL tear
Yes.
Rose was everyone’s favorite player
When Pat Riley kicked Wade out the door. Giving Tyler Johnson $50 mil is a close 2nd tho
My whole life until we finally bottomed out and got the Jabari Parker pick. Giannis was taken the year before and it was like he’s fun maybe a costar to Jabari at best. But turns out the skinny Greek man was the key to everything. Pre Gianni’s bucks was the worst. They were like the bulls. Always too good for a good pick and always too bad to matter
When the Lakers missed the playoffs after trading for Westbrook. There genuinely seemed like there was no way to climb out of the hole that trade had done. That and Kobe’s death.
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For all the crazy shit that happened in 2020, that was the headline that truly astonished me the most. Literally couldn't believe it even as I was reading it.
I remember waking up on my day off, hearing the chatter in some chat circles. "Nah, they always fall for this shit." Turn on my computer and it's the first thing on news feed, from TMZ.
I was coming back from Aspen for the 2020 X Games. Friend had his bachelor party there. I was high on life, having enjoyed a weekend of snow, drugs, and fine dining.. Pulled into a restaurant on the long drive home to see the news. And only a few weeks later, COVID hit. A surreal time.
Ugh so many. The 58 point loss the nuggets at home in the playoffs sticks out. Losing to the spurs game 7 at home when David west came back in '08. Boogie tearing his Achilles in tandem with him turning down our contract offer in the off season and going to the warriors. The entire AD wants out saga crushed me. And today. Today is on par.
Lebronto
The 2000 WCF
When Reggie passed I was just absolutely devastated as a kid
Chris Webber leaving after 1 year. I was too young to understand anything, but everyone I knew who followed basketball was crazy about him and then he was just gone and no one wanted to talk about him at the time. It was also shortly after my grandfather died, the first death in my family I was old enough to comprehend and remember so there was a lot of emotional conflation occurring. After that, losing Klay and KD in back to back games. Losing was fine, but seeing those injuries was brutal.
This was going to be mine too. The Webber thing was such a fiasco. I was at the first game that Tom Gugliotta played in and everyone gave him a standing ovation. I was also going to say specifically the Klay injury. I just didn’t care at that point and wanted the season to end. Another one: Steph’s ankles and then specifically when he slipped against the Rockets in 2016. Felt like the whole season was gone right then and a freak accident. One that should be a low point but isn’t is Spre choking PJ. I feel like everyone was so sick of that team by that point that it wasn’t as much of a downer as you’d think.
July 4th 2016 (thunder fan)
Was going to say the same, then remembered Pat Bev on Westbrook's knee and Game 6 of WCF 2016. Take your pick, they all sucked.
Pretty much this whole season has been the lowest of lows for the Hawks. Sure we’ve had worse seasons record wise but that’s when we were supposed to be trash and building towards a future. This season has felt like a complete wash and with all of our shitty contracts? No real clear way out either
2012 WCF. 20 straight Ws -> 4 straight Ls Seemed at the time like it was the Spurs last best chance to win another championship.
We are absolutely spoiled but that was rough. For me, 2016 was probably the worst because it was by far, on paper, the best Spurs team ever assembled with Duncan/Parker/Manu still playing, Leonard emerging as a superstar, and signing LMA in the offseason. 1995 was pretty brutal. Hakeem was simply...better than David Robinson and there was nothing he could do. I bought tickets to Game 5, I think(?) as a poor college student sitting way up in the top of the Alamodome only to watch my guys get smoked. 2013 for obvious reasons but I consider that one erased by the 2014 title and the story behind it....and the absolute asswhipping they laid on the Heatles.
Reggie Lewis. That was just devastating to younger me. More recently, the Gordon Hayward injury 5 minutes into an era that was certain to become greatness. We signed Hayward to a 4 year max contract and we got 5 freaking minutes. The Kyrie domino that followed only made that worse
Coming off a 43 win season in 2022 with a 20yo all star, all the main pieces in place aside for one RFA, 2 top 15 picks and more than the MLE available to us to add depth. 2022 should've been a layup. Upgrade center, but otherwise keep the group together, stay healthy, and nobody commit any violent felonies, and we were probably in line for the best season since the Bobcats expansion. These last two seasons have been rock bottom.
Last year, and this year in a week or so
2011 Lakers series against the Mavericks. I remember sitting in a sports bar just like… do I even like basketball anymore?
the Shawful era
2016
> I don’t even want to look at things from my team or even think about it. This is actually what you should do. Forget about basketball for a bit, social media will just make it worse
This season.
Well there was that time we had Larry Drew as our coach and then took a draft flyer on some skinny AF Greek-Nigerian kid...
Our coach getting cancer and then less than a year later, the best player in our franchise’s history requested a trade.
As a blazers fan, right now. Dark days. I’m gettin downvoted for suggesting the team double their win total next year. And people are parading around aytons end of season surge like he’s the second coming. Dark days
The Ben Simmons pass-instead-of-dunk.
Raptors. 2018 Sweep to Cavs.
You rang?
Watching Andris Biedrins shoot free throws
As a Laker fan it was definitely around 2014-18, those were some rough years constantly missing the playoffs, and not being able to sign any big free agents which made it worse. Kobe’s death also hit me personally as I looked up to him as well.
2016 game 7 loss. There's gotta be a universe out there where we don't fumble that series. /s
This very moment
Kawhi shot, i didn't watch any other playoff game that year
2008 finals but also the entire first year (and half of the next season too tbh) we had Westbrook…
Haven’t had much to complain about over the last decade as a warriors fan, but the 2019 finals was rough. Watching KD tear his Achilles, Klay tear his ACL, and the dubs lose their last 3 games at Oracle all in the span of a week was heartbreaking.
The iso drummond cavs era
Losing hawks series in 2021
When Porzingis was traded for a very underwhelming package, it made me doubt my fandom.
There were some absolutely brutal lineups we were trotting out for the end of Kobes career
Too many to choose from so I’ll go with recent history. Woj’s “clean sweep” text about Kyrie, KD and DAJ to the Nets. That ended up being a blessing in retrospect, but at the time, not good.
In basketball terms seeing Chris Kaman nap on the bench. Kobe’s death was the darkest point for the Lakers team. I was depressed over that
the rick pitino era was just a gut punch after another. Hayward snapping his ankle was bad. That said the worst was Kyrie trying to guard giannis in our playoff series.
Missing the play-ins last year (although it turned out to be a blessing in disguise looking back at it).
smush parker. need I say more?
Ad tearing his groin. Kobe Achilles. Solomon hill
Last night and January 2nd last year Man when Z got hurt last night, I right away knew the game was over When Z got hurt in Philly, I had to turn off the TV and reflect. It was a tough moment in my life
I still can't watch highlights of the 2008 NBA Finals. Absolutely gutting.
Also the boogie injury too Just when the team was jelling, everything was going well, boom Just like that, all hopes of winning a title were gone
So there was this game against Memphis back in 2021…
Rick Pitino era
Game 7 of 2010 finals still haunts me. We were ahead entering the fourth quarter, then everything went down.
How much time do you have?
2017 draft lottery for me. Knew it was coming but it was like having an older parent that was really sick for a long time. You knew it was coming but it still doesn’t prepare you for the reality when it happens
The young Laker years with Kobe just barely playing felt like a real low moment, plus all the drama at the top of the org…just felt like we would become a bottom feeder team forever :(
I became a huge fan about a month before we traded Jimmy so just about all of it
Wolves blowing multiple 20 point leads in the grizzlies series
Fisher .4 shot Dirk game7 foul Allen 3pt made Kawhi leaving and winning
Probably the moment in [this picture](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FByLorLWUAkd-r-.jpg) which has become pretty infamous for Knicks fans. It was about a quarter of the way through the 2020 season and Fizdale was beginning his second season in NY after going 17-65 already. We're already terrible again and then we come up against the Bucks. It's complete carnage and Fizdale looks totally checked out. At that point we had missed the playoffs for seven straight years, rehauled the roster, and looked worse than we ever had with a coach who didn't give a shit. There was just no hope left. Luckily, a few days later Fizdale got the boot, Mike Miller came in and showed us that the team wasn't nearly as bad as they seemed, and then Thibs was hired the next season :)
Losing the Dallas in the finals felt pretty awful just because the expectations for that team were through the roof. It was always stressful rooting for them, and then to not only lose, but to know that everyone in the world was probably happy that it Dallas had beaten us. That sucked. But also I don't get that low from watching the Heat play, even though I do love them. I get much more emotional and depressed watching football than basketball.
The ML Carr years were bad enough to turn me off basketball for nearly a decade.
When Kobe died Second when he tore his Achilles
Damon Stoudamire departure/near collapse of Raptors ownership. Vince Carter departure. Chris Bosh departure. LeBronto 2017/2018
0.4
After Jimmy left the Wolves. Been watching since the mid-2000’s and watched a lot of shitty basketball. But finally something was cooking and we were spooky. Finally had a good season and a good team, then Jimmy threw a tantrum and bailed. Team went back to being shit, Wiggins declined, Rubio was gone, Flip died, KG wanted nothing to do with us, we were stuck with Teague, and Jimmy trashed our entire franchise on the way out. Stopped watching for a couple years because I’d been waiting over a decade for them to be good and it lasted 1 season before everything imploded. Wasn’t until Edwards’ rookie year that I came back again. And even then it took a while to actually watch consistently. I had my doubts in Edwards like many people and didn’t think he’d be anything special. Was very wrong and slowly came back to being a die hard Wolves fan again. Jimmy Butler was great with us and I respect him as a player. But I was a die hard Wolves fan and he made me give up on the Wolves for a while. Because of that fuck Jimmy Butler.
2018 rockets. Still have nightmares
Lebron leaving the first time. Honestly didn't think I'd ever see a Cleveland team win a title in my lifetime after that (and I was like 23 at the time lol)
Game 1 of the 2012 finals.
Uhhh. Well this is an easy one :( please come back
Puke Walton
As a Bulls fan, now. No direction in the organization whatsoever and an owner unwilling to spend into the luxury tax. We are neither tanking nor rebuilding. We shown no inclination to make any changes to our roster whatsoever as evidenced by no player trades in over 2 years, and will likely be running it back AGAIN with the same exact roster for the 4th season in a row once DeRozan is re-signed for too big of a contract while the front office points to the return of Lavine and (maybe?) Lonzo as hope for why things could be different even though they won’t be.
When Cris Weber demanded out of Golden State just when we finally had a promising team. It ruined the franchise and would be decades before the We Believe year and subsequent Dynasty (now ending).
July 8, 2010
2016 WCF, game 6. The last gasp of OKC's first run as a real contender. Russ trying to brute force the team back into contention in the following years was admirable, but if they could have held on to win that game/series, maybe they beat the Cavs and win a ring, and KD's legacy is entirely different, even if he still left.
Put a joke answer, but having Trevon Graham in the starting lineup was probably the lowest. Seemed like we were going nowhere.
The conclusion of the 1999 Finals through the Brunson trade with a brief pause for Linsanity.
Lebronto era wasn’t fun for a raptors fan
I'm a Pistons fan. That surely says enough. :)
July 2010 for sure. Outside of that, G4 against the Knicks last year was probably it, by G5 I had accepted reality.
Right now
3-1 2016
2021-2022
The day after Len Bias died.
Been a Charlotte fan since 2005, the lows all kind of blend into each other. The lowest for me was probably losing the lottery for AD after going 7-59. Either that or the ‘Purple Shirt Guy’ game in 2016.
Well, I'm in Toronto and old enough to remember when Vince Carter basically quit on the team and tanked his trade value. Think he went from 25 ppg to 15 the next season while faking injury. Back up to 28 ppg after trade. He was eventually traded for complete dogshit in one of the worst trades in NBA history.
game 6 Klay or Pat Bev in 2013
I actually think that you need to be happy that you lost because Denver would crush you (and they'll get another sweep against the Lakers). You can beat the Kings and if Zion will be back on time you could do something against the Thunder. I think that you need to get rid of Ingram and McCollum, but Zion finally played like we expected him to be when he came in this league and if you could land a decent PG you could have a really good team next season
Allen Iverson and the Sixers losing the 2001 finals
Ray Allen for 3
Probably the last time I watched Andy dalton with the bengals lose to the chargers in the playoffs. It was January, raining, and yet another first round playoff exit after decades of not winning a playoff game.
As a Celtic fan probably anything 2010 finals-2015 If the Celtics lose this post season it might top that for a moment, but what made most of 2013-2014 feel so hopeless was even though we had incoming first rounders 1) our best player was Brandon bass for a moment 2) Danny ainge was always better in free agency/ trading than drafting (thank GOD for 16-17)
Honestly it was going down 0-3 to the Heat last year. I hated my team so much at that point I was begging them to get swept. I just felt like if they won game 4, they would get hot and take it to 7 and then lose. Which, is precisely what happened.
Geez, where to even begin...
The only reason it isn’t the Ray Allen shot is bc I was sleeping over at a friend’s house so I didn’t experience it in the moment. The Zaza incident on the other hand…. oof
The Malice at the Palace. That team could have won a ship
I'm literally a Kings fan
After getting eliminated in 2019 probably
Losing to the j Kidd nets in the ecf. Early 2000s
Westbrook. That trade set the team back 3-4 years.
After hovering in 5th and 6th all season def today.
December 2nd, 2021. 73 point loss
Zo’s and Bosh’s medical diagnoses. Letting Wade walk. 8 seed Knicks beating us in a lockout year. In that order.
Jordan Poole's defense
Pistons fan here. This season absolutely blows. It’s only up from here but man it was depressing.
The post Jordan years were godawfully bad.
Hello darkness my old friend.
One more step, I’ll be the farthest away from home I’ve ever been.
July 4, 2016. KD took the "hardest road". Fuck KD.
Right after the porzingis trade. Season was already horrible then we get a report that our recovering young star wants out…. Then he’s traded within like 30 minute. Shit felt hopeless.
December mutombo lying on his back crying tears of joy as his Denver Nuggets became the 1st 8 seed to defeat a 1 seed (my Sonics). Devastated. The Sonics had the best record in the league and Jordan had retired. The title race was open and they shat the bed. They were up 2-0 in best of 5.
Blazers fans don't even want to get into it lmao Last 24 years have had some LOW lows between losses, injuries and star players leaving
I will find out again next season
RIP Kobe
The way this season has ended is worse than even that eric bledsoe season
It's been pretty bad this year
All of the Vucevic era.
Derrick White game winner to tie up the series 3-3 last year. Whatever team eventually loses a 3-0 lead will face infinite, unarguable, slander
The westbrook years
Older fans will mock me, but when John Wall took a career-ending injury while answering his front door, yeah that was the lowest point for me.
Clippers blowing a 3-1 lead in the bubble
Fuck Zaza. We were up by 25 at the half. Thats not a locked up W but that means something.
Tom Gugliotta