According to The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, unfulfilled expectations are the root of all suffering. I would like to submit that this theory of suffering omits the scenario in which suffering is the expectation.
And I think I speak for number of San Antonio Spurs fans when I say that suffering has certainly been the expectation during a stretch in which the Spurs lost 16 of the last 18 contests, and 11 of those in a row.
It was the first time the Spurs had lost that many games in a row since the year I was born.