With Wednesday's loss to the Washington Wizards, the Brooklyn Nets, who will deliver their unprotected first-round pick to Boston during June's draft, guaranteed that they will finish with no worse than the fourth-worst record in basketball this season.
With four games remaining in the regular season, the only lingering question is whether the Nets (21-57) will remain in front of the Phoenix Suns (20-58).
Neither the Nets -- remaining schedule: at Charlotte, at Indiana, vs. Washington, vs. Toronto -- nor the Suns -- remaining schedule: at Houston, at New Orleans, vs. Sacramento, vs. Los Angeles Clippers -- are favored to win a game the rest of the way, according to ESPN's Basketball Power Index, though injuries and strategic rest by playoff-bound teams might ultimately dictate whether either team gets in the win column again.