Detroit Pistons has scripted NBA single-season losing record.

Posted 7 months ago

The Detroit Pistons set an NBA record for futility, its 118-112 home defeat to the Brooklyn Nets stretching its losing streak to 27, the longest ever in a single season.

Detroit's 27-game losing streak tops the runs of futility of the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers, who each lost 26 straight.

Philadelphia holds the longest losing streak of all time, which spanned over the course of two seasons. The 76ers dropped 28 straight between the end of the 2014-15 season and the beginning of the 2015-16 campaign. The Pistons can match that skid when they visit the Boston Celtics on Thursday.

Mikal Bridges had 21 points and Cam Thomas tossed in 17 for Brooklyn. Cade Cunningham carried the Pistons with 41 points, 37 in the second half, while Bojan Bogdanovic had 23 points.

Despite a 2-1 start, the Pistons went winless in November, snapped their franchise record of 21 straight losses across the 1979-80 and 1980-81 seasons earlier this month and now hold the NBA’s worst record at 2-28.

The previous team with a worse record through 30 games was the 2015-16 76ers, who started 1-29 (and reached 1-30) before finishing 10-72.