Despite losing in an excruciating manner to the Sacramento Kings Saturday night, the Detroit Pistons remain just a game and a half out of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The playoffs remain tantalizingly close, if the Pistons can just... play slightly better.
The Washington Wizards, despite everything that has happened to THEM this season - adding Dwight Howard, starting slowly, trading for Trevor Ariza only for him to slash 36/30/79, losing John Wall to heel surgery - are just a game behind the Pistons, two and a half games out of the playoff mix.