There’s a line of thought that to get better as an NBA team, you have to get worst first to get a better chance of getting a high draft pick to acquire the talent to win. There’s only one thing wrong with this approach: it almost never works. ESPN’s Henry Abobtt works through the numbers. A sample stat: “Win 34 games or fewer in any season… and over the next decade your chances of winning more than 55 [games in a season] are abysmal, at just 12 percent.”