The New Jersey Nets lost for the 18th straight time to open the season setting an infamous NBA record. On Wednesday, they played the Dallas Mavericks who were led by PG Jason Kidd who previously led the once proud Nets to back to back Finals appearances earlier in the decade. Dallas shot 81% from the field in the first half of the game and you do not need a Doctorate in betting on NBA basketball odds to know that if a team shoots 80% from the field for an entire quarter the overwhelming odds are they are going to win that game rather easily. The Nets average 86.6 ppg this season which is good for dead last in the NBA and last night was just the second time all season they topped the 100 point mark. The last time they did crack the century mark prior to last night was on Halloween. Yikes!!!

The question, as ludicrous as it may seem, is will these Nets win even one game this season? Of course they will, right? I mean NO team in the history of basketball has gone 0-82. It is just not possible, right? Well they Nets still have the T Wolves at home on the schedule and if you read through any NBA scouting report it will still consider the Nets as a "threat" on any given night if the moon and the stars align. Seriously speaking, Devin Harris and Brook Lopez are pretty good complimentary players but if they are your team leaders your team is in big time trouble and that is the position New Jersey finds themselves in. Lawrence Frank was "relieved" and I mean it in every sense of the word, of his duties as head coach of the Nets recently and the team will eventually be led by Kiki Vandeweghe. With dubious records such as the NBA record for consecutive losses in a season (23 held by the 1996 Vancouver Grizzlies) seemingly within reach on a nightly basis it is ironic that Frank began his NBA coaching career in record-setting style, as he went 13-0, which set a new NBA mark for the most consecutive wins by a head coach to begin a coaching career. Oh what a difference a Hall of Fame point guard makes.