The Detroit Pistons won just 17 games this past season, worst in the NBA, and have now missed the playoffs for four straight seasons.
But it gets worse: The Pistons haven’t won a playoff game since the 2007-8 season, having been swept in their three appearances in the playoffs since then. It’s the longest drought of playoff futility in the NBA, something Monty Williams soon hopes to change.
It may not happen in one season, but Williams does have a history of taking bad teams with solid young talent and molding them into contenders, as he did with the Phoenix Suns.