New York — Your thesaurus is inadequate. Your guide to idioms, insufficient. No single word or phrase can properly capture the sudden, inexplicable hideousness of the NBA’s Eastern Conference, so please do not bother trying.
You will run out of cliches before you run out of bad teams.
Yes, things are that dire.
Only two teams in the East, Miami and Indiana, had winning records as of Dec. 1—the first time that has happened since 1972, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Atlanta held third place, at .500.
That left an astounding 12 teams flailing below .500—a revolting assortment of busted lineups, broken All-Stars and bewildered upstarts. They are the clueless, the overhyped, the underachievers and the tankers, collectively bobbing in the muck, a blazing inferno of ineptitude, a tire fire of futility, a miserable mosaic of, um, well…
“Listen, no one can explain just how bad it is,” said ESPN’s Jeff Van Gundy. “I mean, there’s just no explanation.”
How bad is it? The Toronto Raptors lead the Atlantic Division with a 6-10 ...
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