If you just look at the season win/loss records you would assume that this year’s Suns team was the second worst in the team’s 50 year history. In their inaugural 1968-69 season the Suns went 16-66... but that was with an expansion team largely made up of players left unprotected by the other NBA teams in the expansion draft. And that team actually won it’s very first NBA game by nine points 116-107 (vs Seattle) on Oct. 18, 1968. This year’s team started out by losing it’s first game of the season by 48 points - a franchise record - on the 50th anniversary of that first win (Oct.