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Lakers finish with worst record in franchise history

Ed Szczepanski / USA TODAY Sports

Not that anybody would've disputed it anyway, but now we can call it official: This was the worst season in Los Angeles Lakers history. 

On Wednesday night, the Lakers mercifully wrapped up their depressing campaign, which featured three months of historic Kobe chucking, countless injuries, archaic coaching strategies, some epic in-fighting, a whole lot of Byron Scott-Nick Young beef, and, sure, some pretty decent play from Jordan Clarkson. 

The cherry on top of that hot garbage sundae was a 122-99 drubbing at the hands of Sauce Castillo and the Sacramento Kings in the season finale in front of their home crowd. A guy named Vander Blue - who was most recently seen wearing a misaligned jersey - played all 48 minutes, and shot 6-of-23. 

The loss dropped the Lakers to 21-61, good for a winning percentage of 25.9. In their 67 seasons of existence, going all the way back to their days in the Twin Cities, they've never finished with a record so poor. 

The next-worst team in franchise history was the 1957-58 Minneapolis Lakers, who went 19-53 (winning percentage: 26.4). The next-worst team after that? Last year's 27-55 outfit. 

Suffice it to say the franchise has seen better days. 

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