On Dec. 18, the Cleveland Cavaliers faced the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Down two when they inbounded it, Mo Williams sank a running jumper to tie the game at 93 with 3.7 seconds left in regulation. The game went to overtime, and Williams scored six points in the extra session to give the Cavaliers a 109-102 victory -- snapping their losing streak at 10 games.
The losing streak’s bad, but it could have been worse
If not for that Mo Williams runner, the Cavaliers are sitting on a 36-game losing streak.
Instead, they’ve gone 1-35 in their last 36 games, and are currently on a 25-game losing skid that’s the longest in league history. Their next seven games are all at home, and feature such winnable opponents as the Pistons, the Clippers, and (in a potentially historic showdown) the Wizards, who have yet to win a single game on the road. The odds are that Cleveland will not only break the streak, but do it some time this week.
Still, it’s an interesting footnote that they were one jumper away from it being 36 straight losses, and not 25. It’s like how Joe DiMaggio had a 16-game hitting streak after his 56-game streak was snapped, giving him a hit in 72 of 73 games. Except instead of getting a hit, it’s failing over and over again.
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