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Alex Speers

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The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

They just were playing the guys on their bench and,

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

and they were doing a lot better than the Thunder.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

The game was over so fast that Desmond Baines started this game, only scored two points on one of six shooting, and they still won by 73.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

As a Thunder fan, I still get excited when I see a team is up by 50, hoping that maybe this is the night this terrible curse will be removed.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

But for now, it is our tanking burden to carry.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

Yeah.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

The number two lowest tanking moment is the Pistons' 27-game losing streak.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

Everything surrounding this losing streak was brutal.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

The hiring of Monte Williams, playing Killian Hayes so much early in the season, Troy Weaver getting into it with fans at games, watching Kay look more and more sad as the streak continued –

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

Pistons fans deserve all the good vibes this team has given them the last two years because truly no fan base has ever had to experience a stretch like that.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

And you're probably saying, how is that not number one?

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

27 game losing streak.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

But the reason why I'm putting the number one at number one is because the Pistons bounced back from that very quickly.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

The number one lowest tanking moment is when the league office pressured the Sixers to hire Jerry Colangelo, which led to Sam Hinckley quitting and then Brian Colangelo getting hired.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

There's never been a worse way to end a tank.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

Being so bad that the league essentially forces a regime change is wild enough.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

But then hiring the son of the guy the league pressured you to hire while telling fans it had nothing to do with his hiring, like nothing's ever topping that.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

And then you factor in the Fultz Tatum trade, Burnergate, the Tobias Harris contract while letting Jimmy Butler go to Miami.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

I think the Sixers takeover is an easy number one lowest tanking moment for me.

The Athletic NBA Daily
The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam

All right, so Andrew, that brings us to your what?