There is bad and then there is being 6.5-point underdogs to the second-worst team in the NBA bad. That is where the Detroit Pistons, the worst team in the NBA, find themselves as they visit the Houston Rockets tonight in the Toyota Center.
The Pistons are finishing off one of the franchise’s worst months in its storied history, winning just one game in March and with one victory in its past 19 contests. The “silver lining” in all that? By net rating, Detroit was ONLY the third-worst team in the basketball, inching above the similarly injury-riddled Portland Trail Blazers and the San Antonio Spurts.