LOS ANGELES - The Detroit Pistons have run out of ideas, as they inched closer to National Basketball Association (NBA) ignominy on Dec 21 after losing 119-111 to the Utah Jazz on their home floor for a 25th straight defeat.
They are now one loss away from matching the NBA's longest single-season losing streak of 26 games by the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and the 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers.
The longest losing streak ever was the 28-game slide of the Sixers that spanned the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons.
"That's history that nobody wants to be a part of," said a dejected Detroit point guard Cade Cunningham, who led his team with 28 points, six rebounds and 10 assists.
"We're not 2-26 bad- no way are we that bad. I still think we can turn this around. We can play a much better brand of basketball." Utah, playing the second night of a back-to-back without Lauri Markkanen, Jordan Clarkson and Talen Horton-Tucker, had looked to offer the Pistons a golden opportunity to halt the slide.
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