D.Brasco wrote:Dipper 13 wrote:Games like this can happen in the NBA, its a long season. Even the '68 Sixers were humiliated one night by the worst team in the league (-7.94 SRS).
Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire who Lives Next Door - Wilt Chamberlain (1973)
San Diego was the worst team in the league that year, and they'd lost 17 straight when we came to town. That tied the league record San Francisco had set in 1965 — when Alex was coaching the Warriors. If we could beat San Diego, which seemed a cinch, Alex would "lose" that record — happily! We had had a tough game in Los Angeles the night before — winning 135-134 in double overtime — and a lot of the guys had partied all night afterwards. Hal got stinking drunk, and Billy and a couple of the other guys had too much beer, too. My folks lived in Los Angeles then, in a 40-unit apartment building I'd built, and I spent the night with them. When I got to San Diego the next day, a couple of the 76ers looked like they were still hung over.
But they weren't resting, trying to shake it off. They were out playing golf — something you should never do on the day of a game, drunk or sober. I got real pissed at them, but they didn't take me too seriously. "It's the Wilt Chamberlain Memorial Golf Tournment," Billy told me. Well, we got our asses kicked in San Diego that night. Late in the third quarter, we were behind 86-68 — the best team in basketball was behind the worst team in basketball by 18 points! The guys started to feel ashamed then, and tried to pull themselves together. We put on a helluva rally. But the booze and partying and golf were too much. We lost 111-106.
Probably been brought up already but the '96 Bulls dropped a game to the expansion Toronto Raptors.
True, though they did say multiple times at the end of the broadcast once it was apparent that Golden State wasn't going to make a comeback that the difference in winning percentage between the Warriors (91.7%) and the Lakers (19.0%) was the biggest in NBA history in a game in which the team with the lower winning percentage beat the team with the higher percentage, and in that sense was the biggest regular-season upset in NBA history.
1) The Raptors won 21 games that year, so the Lakers are on pace to win less games this year (17) than the Raptors did in '96.
2) The Bulls were 60-7 (89.6%) going into that game, and the Raptors were 17-49 (25.8%).
3) The Bulls lost that game by a point (109-108) on a free throw with 21 seconds left and a missed 3-pointer by Steve Kerr with one second left, while the Warriors lost by 17.
The Raptors got a fluke one-point win with the shocker being that it was a close game to begin with, while the Warriors were blown out by a worse team than the expansion Raptors were. Also recall back that it took a 3-pointer with less than a second left for the 42-4 Warriors (91.3%) to beat the 7-40 (14.9%) 76ers earlier this year.
