Record books are funny things. Every team in professional sports wants to get into them. Every athlete wants to see their name on a list of athletic distinctions,accomplishments. Both team and indiviual will be pointed at with pride for years to come if they are in the record books. However, there is another part to the record books, one that you can get your name and no one wants this distinction. The Philadelphia 76ers basketball team may go in the books for worst NBA season ever. After playing 37 games of the 82 game schedule the 76ers are a dismal 4-34 with a .105 winning percentage. According to the Sportsdaily the team set a record for being the first NBA franchise to lose 29 0f it's first 30 games . So how does Philadephia stack up against all the other losing teams from the pro leagues?
So, which team are the Philadelphia 76s chasing for the worst record of all time for a single season? Well, themselves. In 1973, the team put up a 9-73 record.The 2011-2012 Charlotte Bobcats deserve mention for their awful season of 7-59 but it was a strike shortened year. In the NFL the Detroit Lions went 0-16 in 2008. In the NHL , the Washington Capitals, who were an expansion team in the 1974-1975, set a league worst mark of 8-67-5. Major League Baseball has a couple of noteable cases of awfulness, In 2000, the Detroit Tigers were a terrible 43-119 setting an American League record for losses.The baseball team with the worst record of all time is The Cleveland Spiders, a deadball era team, who in the 1899 season season were ..20-134. The Spiders had a good excuse though, in the days when there was no such thing as conflict of interest, ,their owners bought another team and shipped out Clevelands best players to The St.Louis Browns..The Spider's most famous player at the time was a pitcher named Cy Young.
The Philadelphia 76ers are widely believed to be playing out this year for a draft pick. The team's desire for a franchise name may earn them a spot on the worst franchises in sports list. They might end up worst team of all.
