A flicker of hope was aflame, but it was ultimately extinguished. The 2015-16 Philadelphia 76ers, at Wednesday's end, still hadn't won a basketball game.
Squaring off against one of the NBA's premier franchises Wednesday, Philly found a way to blow a late lead to the Boston Celtics and lose 84-80 at TD Garden, worsening its record to 0-16.
The NBA on ESPN encompassed what happened toward the end and what the Sixers' loss means in terms of historic futility:
Whoever runs the Sixers' official Twitter feed, you did well here to react to the team's collapse:
Baby-stepping their way through a long-gestating reconstruction project masterminded by general manager Sam Hinkie, the Sixers have a moral victory of sorts to build on. That's about all the consolation coach Brett Brown's squad can have after another display of undeniably awful basketball.
After a 23-14 second quarter, the Sixers entered the locker room with a comfortable seven-point cushion. This was a moral victory in and of itself, and ESPN Stats & Info provided more context for the advantage:
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