The Worst NBA Organizations of the 2000s

Where to begin...

Two playoff appearances, one winning season.

For a team with such a long history (mostly of winning) it was a decade to forget. Perhaps what will be remembered most are the days of Isiah Thomas ruining the team and his personal life.

What's more concerning is that the Knicks have been among the biggest spenders every year.

Over the last two years they have paid Eddy Curry approximately $7 million per game. They traded two draft picks for him that were eventually used to draft No. 2 LaMarcus Aldridge and No. 9 Joakim Noah.

They paid Stephon Marbury over $20 million last year to play for someone else.

Isiah Thomas is one of SEVEN coaches they employed during the decade.

To top off their horrible decade the Knicks have traded away their first round pick (likely to be Top-Five) in the 2010 draft.

Major markey teams aren't supposed to struggle like they have.

Three playoff appearances, zero playoff wins, one traded superstar trade in exchange for his younger, less talented brother.

This trade is widely considered one of the worst of the decade in that the Grizzlies lost their proven franchise player (who was in his prime) for unproven players with lower ceilings, and very late first round picks.

Oh they also created a juggernaut in Los Angeles.

In total they had seven years with over 50 losses.

Seven coaches sat the bench throughout the decade.

This season they tried to bring in Allen Iverson (who notoriously doesn't want to sit) to be their sixth man. Not surprisingly it failed. This move was pretty representative of the skill level of the people in charge of Memphis.

Three playoff appearances, six head coaches.

Although they aren't the worse statistically, I think we can agree that it's been a bad decade when your team sucks, and then they are stolen out from under your feet after 40 years of history.

If it makes Seattle fans feel any better, the Thunder have been even worse than the Sonics were this decade, and their new owner has lost a fortune both personally and through his basketball endeavors.

Here's hoping Seattle will get a team this decade and make it one of the best.

One playoff appearance, one winning season, six seasons with 50 or more losses.

What is there to like about the Clippers?

They don't win games.

The free agent signings made have been less than stellar.

The lone bright spot was nabbing 2009 No. 1 overall pick Blake Griffin, but he's hurt already. Plus, the Clip show has a horrible track record of developing young talent.

Making things worse, their cross town rivals (if loser teams can even have rivals) tore up the league, winning four titles.

One playoff appearance, two winning seasons, six different coaches.

There isn't much good to say about the Warriors.

After Gary St. Jean did pretty much all in his power to ruin the team from '00-'04, Chris Mullin took over the reigns.

Aside from a single playoff year in 2007, the Warriors have been a pretty disappointing group, never bad enough for a franchise changing draft pick, and never good enough to make the playoffs.

Their main problem has been a constant restructuring of the roster that has seen Anthony Randolph, Gilbert Arenas, Al Harrington, Stephen Jackson, Jason Richardon, Mike Dunleavy Jr., Baron Davis, and Antawn Jamison come and go, leaving not a single big name star left on the team.

First off Charlotte lost to the Hornets, who had made the playoffs three straight years before departing.

Their replacement team has been anything but stellar. They have yet to make the playoffs and have never had a winning percentage over 50 percent.

Making things worse for Bob Johnson are the tens of millions of dollars he has supposedly been losing. Rumor has it he is already entertaining ideas of selling the team.

Bringing in Michael Jordan to be your GM is one thing. Listening to him is another. The guy has a horrible record of evaluating talent and his trades have been sub par.

With ownership looking to cut spending and no great young talent to speak of, things haven't been so hot in Charlotte.