Do You Think He Get's this pissed in staff meetings?

I’d like to pick this thing apart like an autopsy.  The Bobcats 2012 season was dreadful.  I guess you have to still call it 2011-2012 season, because the Bobcats actually played 3 games before New Year’s Day.  But does it really matter?

Actually, yes.  It does matter because likely the most significant positives came in those first two games.  The Bobcats actually won against Milwaukee in that first game, and former Bobcats Stephen Jackson and Shaun Livingston.  The next game, it took a Dwayne Wade last second shot to beat the young Bobcats.  Wade showing “the Superman” to Cam Newton, who was in the crowd, hopefully cheering on his hometown Bobcats, was an indelible image from the season.

No, those were the salad days.  When the season was young.  If you look at the big picture of the season, you see one glaring, overwhelming, undeniable truths that will likely not be pushed aside for years, if ever: The Charlotte Bobcats are the worst team in NBA history.

“The worst,” isn’t defensible.  You can’t make claims like “Well, they show some promise and if it weren’t for….”  No, you can’t defend the Bobcats of the 2011-2012 season.  Epic futility, even in a shortened season, with a young team in flux, isn’t able to be cast aside like it was expected or a link in a chain of events that was somehow planned.

Tanking couldn’t be the reason for the lowest winning % in NBA history.  Michael Jordan claims that the Bobcats weren’t even going for the most ping-pong balls.  So, worst in the league, not a goal, worst ever?  Far from it.  I still argue we’re talking about Michael Jeffery Jordan here.  He’s one of the world’s greatest competitors.  They invented the quote “I don’t care if you’re playing basketball, checkers, tidly-winks or whatever, he hates to lose,” about the owner of the Bobcats.  But, we all also know that his exploits as owner and executive haven’t come close to what he did as a player, even in his time with the Wizards.  That says a lot.

Look at it this way, Bobcats fans: at least “.106 winning percentage” doesn’t make for a very catchy derisive chant.  Not only is Charlotte officially the worst team ever, with 23 losses to close out the season (23—the Irony-Meter’s on 10), one month-old Bobcats fans everywhere are wondering if the Bobcats will ever win a game in their lifetime.  At least Scott Fowler should be happy.  The Charlotte Observer columnist wrote an idiotic article on Saturday hoping that the Bobcats would lose out in order to achieve a sort of “worst-ever” celebrity status.  “Make this season one for the record books,” Fowler wrote, “and then rebuild.”  Call me crazy, but I see no upside in being associated with the worst-ever team.

Actually, Fred Carter would call me crazy.  The unofficial spokesman for the 1972-73 76ers, the NBA’s now-former worst-ever team, really did seem to revel in the notoriety.  Back in 2010, when the Nets were threatening to displace the 76ers as the worst-ever team, Carter told the New York Times that he hoped it wouldn’t happen. “Immortality only comes in so many different ways,” Carter reasoned, sounding disturbingly like how I imagine Charles Manson looks back on the Tate-Labianca murders.  Then again, Carter also claims credit for being the person who invented the fist-bump, so he might be a few beers short of a six-pack.  I’m even slightly worried that Carter might take out a lawsuit against the Bobcats for a combination of defamation and copyright infringement.