The 4 biggest losers in the NBA’s bubble so far
By Luke Duffy
Although we have seen plenty of surprises and star turns already, not every team in the NBA bubble is having a good time of it.
With the seeding games beginning to draw to a close in the NBA bubble, one thing we can say with certainty up to this point is that it has been a complete success. We’ve had amazing games and all-time great performances. There has been plenty of drama. Even the backups to the role players are having their moment.
So much positivity around this festival of basketball, with even the extremely short-handed Brooklyn Nets picking up wins over the Milwaukee Bucks and LA Clippers to keep the positive vibes going. In doing so they’ve also secured the seventh seed in the East and avoided a first-round matchup with the Bucks.
However for all of the good that we are witnessing, there comes with it some bad as well. Whether it is underperforming outfits, untimely injuries, or some combination of both, not all organizations are loving their time in the Orlando bubble at the moment.
Which on the one hand is ok. In what has been such a strange season, teams having a poor run of five seeding games after being off for four months isn’t a huge cause for concern. No matter how bad some teams have been, and really there are not many of them, the focus should already be on next season and getting better.
For the following four franchises, however, they have found themselves on this list either because they underperformed badly in the bubble to this point, or worse yet their future beyond this year has plenty of question marks beside it as well. This is one list you don’t want to be top of.