It’s not a marquee matchup by any means when the 29-29 Brooklyn Nets face the 12-45 Cleveland Cavaliers Wednesday night at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
The game had lost so much of its luster that ESPN switched Brooklyn’s lone scheduled appearance on the network from Wednesday’s game to a March 13 matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Cavaliers aren’t quite eliminated from playoff contention officially, but they are 15 games behind the eighth-place Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference standings and have a tragic number of 12 (the combination of Pistons wins and Cavaliers losses before Cleveland is eliminated).