NEW ORLEANS — While a lot of people were alarmed by Utah’s three-point loss to a sub-.500 New Orleans team Monday night, it shouldn’t have been that surprising.
Just look at some of the other results around the NBA the past few days.
The same night the Jazz were beaten by the Pelicans, the team with the worst record in the NBA, the Phoenix Suns, knocked off the team with the best record, the Milwaukee Bucks, 114-105.
Then on Tuesday, the teams with the third- and fourth-best records in the Western Conference, Oklahoma City and Portland, were knocked off by the teams with the 11th and 14th best records in the conference, respectively: Minnesota and Memphis.