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Those heartless wags at ESPN sure had some fun with the latest dose of disgrace to strike our hapless Thunder.
That occurred Saturday night, when 3-27 Oklahoma City hobbled into the nation's capital for a back-alley showdown with the 4-23 Washington Wizards.
The Wizards, bless their souls, were the one team in the NBA doing their best to make the Thunder feel hopeful about its league-worst situation.
So what if the Okies had just three victories? Why, that's only one fewer than the Wizards had before tipoff Saturday.
Going strictly by the teams' respective records, the game marked the second worst matchup in NBA history.
Rising to the occasion, the SportsCenter sages introduced the game highlights variously as the "coal in your Christmas stocking" and the "Second Worst Show on Earth." The producers trimmed out the color and dressed up the highlights with a vintage Charlie Chaplin effect.
It was a feast for the senses.
Why all the fuss?
Just two days after the Lakers (23-5)and Celtics (27-3) brought a combined 50-8 record into their Christmas Day tete-a-tete, the Okies and Wizards began the Saturday night with a combined record of 7-50.
Only one matchup in NBA annals, according to ESPN, had featured two teams (with at least 25 games played) with a worse aggregate record.
That was on Jan. 6, 1998, when the 2-28 Nuggets took on the 5-27 Mavericks.
As for the game, well you can probably guess how that turned out.
Not only did they have just four wins, the Wizards entered the fray on an eight-game losing streak and played without Caron Butler. Sidelined by an aching ankle, Butler is averaging 21 points, 6.5 rebounds and leading Washington with 4.5 assists a game.
The Wizards also lacked the human hibachi, Gilbert Arenas, who hasn't played since April because of a knee injury.
Despite it all, or should we say because of a fortuitous visit from the always gracious Thunder, the Wizards embarked on a nice little winning streak with a 104-95 victory.
"People paid money to go to that," was the final word from the ESPN misanthropes.
