Tankable Game: Bobcats vs. Wizards

The D-League Showcase is back, baby! Last time, despite playing a road game, the Wizards obliterated the Bobcats by 28 points. In fairness to Charlotte, you can't stop Cartier Martin, you can only hope to contain him. 

Why and how does this happen? Well, it happens because the worst team is far worse than the second worst team. It happens because the Bobcats keep making awful decisions, year after year. Washington is bad, but nobody is quite Charlotte bad—that's its own zip code, city, and state of hell. There are few if any competitors, save for the '92 Mavs and the 1995 Chicago Bulls, in the inverse way. 

It all sets up a beautiful, possible revenge game. The Bobcats have become symbolic for failure, for tanking, for the bitter cold that is Michael Jordan's winter. They have one goal, besides Tyrus Thomas' masculinity salvation plea (Thomas said "The biggest thing now is having some pride as men"): They must break the losing streak, they must avoid ending the season on an absurd 23 straight losses. 

And who better to do it against than the team Michael Jordan formerly hindered from an executive perch? Though the answer might be "San Antonio" or "Miami," this scenario at least gives Charlotte a chance.

It might be the last one they get.

The final two games are against New York and Orlando, both playoff squads. And while the Bobcats have had success against Orlando, they only have three shots at breaking the streak. Also, the Wiz should be tanking, while the Cats are striving to wring any scrap of dignity from a comically humiliating season.

Upshot: Wiz by 35.