The eventual Western Conference champion Spurs sweep the Lakers in four straight gamesįollowing their mercifully expedient playoff exit, Dwight Howard’s impending unrestricted free agency decision remained murky.Kobe Bryant tears his Achilles tendon in the season’s 80th game, crippling the team’s chances of mounting a late-season charge.Mike D’Antoni replaces interim head coach Bernie Bickerstaff, leading the Lakers to seventh place in the West.Mike Brown’s Princeton Offense fails, leading to his dismissal after four losses in five games to start the year.Steve Nash breaks his leg in the preseason, missing seven weeks, and is unable to return to All-Star-caliber play.For those of you fortunate enough to have erased this miserable season from your memories, here’s a brief refresher of the low-lights:
#NBA MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS SERIES#
“STAY.”ĭespite entering the season as prohibitive favorites to win the West - and perhaps, more importantly, a game-breakingly dominant team to play as in NBA 2K13 - the 2012-13 Steve Nash-Dwight Howard-Kobe Bryant Lakers came to be defined by a series of unmitigated disasters. In chronological order, these are the five most embarrassing moments of the Lakers’ past decade: 1. It’s easier to appreciate how good you have it when you remember how bad things have been. Now, with the days of unmatched ineptitude (hopefully) in the organization’s past, these foibles serve as reminders of the NBA’s fickle nature, and the massive gains the franchise has made in its process and results. These miserable seasons were marked by a series of gaffes and fumbles of such an embarrassing nature it would have been impossible to imagine them coming from the prestigious purple and gold just a few seasons prior. In the five years between Kobe Bryant’s Achilles injury and LeBron James’ deliverance, however, the Lakers failed to even make the playoffs once, winning just 126 of 410 games, fewer than any other NBA franchise. The Mark Gastineau roughing the passer penalty against the Browns that led to the Jets’ playoff loss in the 1986 season, ruining the promise of their 10-1 start that year.Over the past two seasons, Lakers Exceptionalists around the world have again been spoiled by a sudden return to glory more commonly experienced during the first half of this millennium. “Look,’’ Coslet said, “you know my quarterback sucks, I know my quarterback sucks, everyone knows my quarterback sucks.’’ġ0. Coslet, never a big fan of quarterback Ken O’Brien, conducted an off-the-record rant with reporters in an effort to get his message across that he could not win with O’Brien. Peter Finney, The Post beat writer at the time, asked Coslet with the first question, “Bruce, why are you doing this?’’ Coslet claimed he didn’t have time to walk downstairs because he was working a short week after a 30-7 Monday night loss to the Bills.ĩ. So he conducted a conference call instead. In 1990, Bruce Coslet refused to come downstairs from his office in Weeb Ewbank Hall to speak to reporters, claiming he was too busy. Jets kicker Nick Lowery was accused of slapping a 20-year-old Patriots’ ball boy during a 1995 game in Foxborough, Mass., because he thought the ball boy was purposely handing him cold footballs to kick.Ĩ. After the Broncos pass rush feasted on the Jets, Duffy’s reaction to the position switch: “Stunned and amazed.”ħ. The 1996 season opener in Denver when, with the offensive line ravaged by injuries, Kotite at the last minute switched center Roger Duffy to tackle, a position he had never played. Hess, pacing the stage inside the team’s Weeb Ewbank Hall auditorium the day he opted to fire Pete Carroll and hire Kotite after the 1994 season, saying, “I’m 80 years old and want results now.’’Ħ. Former Jets owner Leon Hess’ Thanksgiving Day visit to practice in 1995 when, attempting to rally his players, he told them, “Let’s go out with dignity and show ’em we’re not horses’ asses.’’ The 2-9 Jets went to Seattle a couple days later and won the game, but still finished 3-13.ĥ. A moment before stepping to the podium for his press conference, Belichick handed his resignation with that message scrawled on a scrap piece of paper.Ĥ. Bill Belichick’s sudden and stunning resignation as the “HC of the NYJ’’ in 2000 on the day he was to be introduced as Bill Parcells’ replacement. The Dan Marino fake spike touchdown pass in 1994 to complete a Dolphins’ comeback from a 24-6 deficit to win 28-24 over the Jets in the final seconds.ģ. It was one of the signature moments of the Rich Kotite era.Ģ. The Bubby Brister shovel pass intended for Adrian Murrell and picked off by Sam Mills to give the Carolina Panthers their first-ever franchise victory in 1995. Mark Cannizzaro takes a look at the all-time worst moments in the history of the New York Jets - and there are plenty.ġ.
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