OT: Worst Year: Lakers or OKC?

[Stabula]

No doubt Lakers seeing as they're the biggest failure in sports history but OKC was pretty bad too. Harden was picked to be traded instead of Ibaka () and Houston constantly gave them fits with or without the chimp. Then the chimp goes down like a and Durant chokes the season away to Memphis. Scott Brooks and the OKC role players got exposed for the worthless pieces of they are. I don't see how OKC was favored to win the west, the Spurs at their best have a much higher ceiling than OKC without Harden.

[Mel_13]

Obviously the EPIC fail award goes to the Lakers. But as far as how detrimental this season is, I have to say losing Westbrook and losing this early in the playoffs after looking like a solid Finals contender has to be devastating on this teams psyche. It was obvious the Lakers were by December, but I really thought OKC would be back in the Finals this year.

Which franchise will have a harder time recovering from this?

To the question posed in the thread le: Lakers, without a doubt.

To the question highlighted above: Thunder. Small market teams operate with a very small margin for error. Presti traded his away before the season started.

[TampaDude]

This year it's definitely LA. Go back and look at the semen cloud on here when they got Nash and Howard, they thought they were a new dynasty and Kobe would finally overtake MJ

Their season has been the biggest trainwreck I can remember, with basketball gods putting a button on it with Achilles.

OKC was gutted before the season began because of the Harden trade. Only their fans who were high as on ice thought they were the same team.