To take some heat off their head coach, the Wings are a franchise that has only managed five playoff appearances in the last nine years. Moreover, four of those have ended in quick first-round exits. So, nobody was expecting them to suddenly morph into championship contenders. But losing to the Dream and stumbling to a 9-31 record after 40 games… that wasn’t on anyone’s watchlist either. Those numbers sting even more because they take us back to 2011, to their Tulsa Shock days.

They limped to a league-worst 3-31 finish. And now, this 9-31 mark lands them in the exact same spot as last season. A year that already went down as the 2nd-worst regular-season record in league history. The only silver lining this time: four extra games to somehow avoid repeating the embarrassment. But optimism i

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