Who's going to finish LAST?
Logan Duvall
4 October 2021
Who is going to finish last? well, we have a few teams that are lined up and ready for the race to the bottom to begin. Teams who are willing and ready to hand the lottery gods their entire future. The tank is about to start.
The obvious answer is the thunder. They have 36 draft selections in the next 7 seasons, they just need to make those picks valuable. The Thunder have gone all in on the draft and are willing to be bad while waiting for the current middle school kid to grow up and bring OKC a championship. However, the Thunder have the parasite of Shai who will ultimately bring the thunder to a record in the mid twenties and not the bottom.
Our Next look is the magic. A rag-tag group of young bucks that nobody wanted, with the exception of Suggs. This group will surely get the last spot right? Sure you have some talent around Issac, but the rest are duds. Markelle Fultz is a bench player pretending to be a starter. Cole Anthony is simply not good at basketball. Mo Bamba will not be known as a good basketball player, but rather the center piece of a hip hop song. However, their badness brought them a good draft selection in Jalen Suggs, who will lead them to a play-in spot.
Finally, the most obvious and almost guaranteed answer is the Chicago Bulls. A team build from: Lonzo Ball, mediocre at everything except shooting(he is bad at that), Vucevich, a new school big man who cares more about getting his buckets than getting a board, DeRozan, very old and cannot shoot the three ball to save his life, and finally the center piece of this dumpster fire, Zachary Thomas LaVine, who the bulls are actively trying to trade and will be gone by the all-star break.
The Bulls hold more talent than the other teams discussed in this post, but lack one main thing, chemistry. The only thing that would make this team dynamic worse is if LaVar Ball was the coach. Watch the Bulls crumble this year and feel no remorse, they did this to themselves. The only hope is if the hornets find themselves at the bottom first.
