Celtics' Season Comp: The 2006-2007 Nets

C's season comp: The 2006-07 Nets
December, 4, 2013
DEC 4 4:15 PM ET
By Chris Forsberg | ESPNBoston.com


From our friends at Elias Sports Bureau (via ESPN Stats and Info):
Boston’s 8-12 record is tied with the 2006-07 New Jersey Nets for the worst in NBA history by a division leader through 20 games. The Nets finished second in the Atlantic Division that season, but still made the playoffs (losing in the conference semifinals).

The Nets emerged with the 17th pick in the 2007 draft (when Greg Oden and Kevin Durant were the prizes). The Nets selected Boston College's Sean Williams at that spot.

Will the Celtics follow the Nets' path and make the playoffs? It's a coin flip at the moment, according to ESPN.com's Hollinger Playoff Odds:




At the moment, Boston has only a 2.9 percent chance of winning the draft lottery. Yes, it's way too early to accurately predict how the team's season will play out and that's hammered home by the projections for potential best (52-30) and worst (18-64) records.



bob
MY NOTE:  I would be ridiculously over-the-top happy and proud if we were eliminated in the EC Semis, since that would not only mean that we made the playoffs, but that we won the first round and made it to the Semis.  It would also make us a more appealing destination for any potential free agents. For a team whose roster is so unbalanced, missing its best player, has a new coach and that everybody projected would be bouncing along on their butts all season and would be one of the 3-5 worst teams in the NBA, that would be extremely impressive.

For us, that is, not so much for all those pundits and tankaratti.

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Tankaratti = Terminal Rectosis.

Sam

Bob,

Avoid the 7th or 8th seed, which Boston would do by winning the division, and they have a shot at getting to the semis. The 7th and 8th seeds will be dispatched by Indiana and Miami, but it's anybody's ball game in the 3-6 range.