{"id":473016,"date":"2023-12-16T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473016"},"modified":"2023-12-16T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T07:00:52","slug":"another-embiid-record-extends-pistons-fall-to-22-straight-defeats","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/another-embiid-record-extends-pistons-fall-to-22-straight-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Embiid record extends Piston&#8217;s fall to 22 straight defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid led the way with 35 points, while Tyrese Maxey contributed 19 as the Philadelphia 76ers handed the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> their franchise-record 22nd consecutive loss with a convincing 124-92 victory on Friday night in the second game of a home-and-home series.<\/p>\n<p>This defeat for the Pistons followed their 129-111 loss to Philly on Wednesday night in Detroit, surpassing the franchise record set at the end of the 1979-80 season and the start of 1980-81. The Detroit losing streak now stands as the sixth-longest single-season skid in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>The only teams with longer losing streaks in a single season are the 2010-11 <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> and the 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers (both lost 26 straight), along with the 1995-96 Vancouver Grizzlies, the 1997-98 <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a>, and the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats (all lost 23 in a row). The overall record for consecutive losses in a season belongs to Philadelphia at 28, set at the end of the 2014-15 season and the start of 2015-16.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joel Embiid\u2019s last 5 games:<\/p>\n<p>-50 points<br \/>\n-38 points<br \/>\n-34 points (sat out of 4th q)<br \/>\n-41 points (sat out of 4th q)<br \/>\n-35 points (sat out of 4th q) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pk5x4pwwZB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pk5x4pwwZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aidan LaPorta (@AidanLaPorta69) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AidanLaPorta69\/status\/1735846658129248550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to his 35-point performance, Joel Embiid, who scored 41 points on Wednesday, grabbed 13 rebounds for his ninth straight double-double. The victory marked the Sixers&#8217; fifth straight win, and during this impressive stretch, Embiid has averaged 36.3 points and 12.1 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, he broke Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s franchise record for the most consecutive games with at least 30 points and 10 rebounds. Furthermore, Embiid became the first NBA player since Chamberlain in 1964-65 to achieve at least 675 points and 200 rebounds in the first 20 games of a season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jSgpEi35fls?si=PyKybYaEFPl56Vdf\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid led the way with 35 points, while Tyrese Maxey contributed 19 as the Philadelphia 76ers handed the Detroit Pistons their franchise-record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":473021,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16727,16841,16840],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18432,18479,17913],"acf":{"announce":"Detroit broke their franchise record for most consecutive loses in a season","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473024,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473016\/revisions\/473024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473016"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473016"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}