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The first part of this NBA season had the world focused on how bad the Wizards were. They limped out of the starting gate at 1-8. Before we knew it though they were beating the team with the best record, Oklahoma City, and their young star John Wall was starting to put it together. A new coach came in and all of a sudden the Wizards resemble a basketball team. They’re still pretty bad at 7-23 but New Jersey is 8-22 and Detroit and Toronto are 9-22. So they have company.

A team that has no company however is Charlotte. The Bobcats are 3-26 and have lost 16 in a row. And yet it has gone virtually unnoticed. Could this be because the man who runs the Bobcats is untouchable? That man is Michael Jordan. The same Michael Jordan who is partially responsible for the train wreck the Wizards are has shown he still does not know the first thing about running a team.

“They’ve totally bottomed out,” said Steve Kerr, an NBA analyst for TNT and a former Jordan teammate. “They are a total disaster right now. They are going to have to get lucky in the lottery and be really strong as an organization in the next couple of years to get out of this.”

Of course injuries have played a part in the Bobcats’ demise. Their three leading scorers, DJ Augustin, Gerald Henderson and Corey Maggette have missed 39 games due to injuries so far.

But poor personnel decisions by Jordan have not helped. He drafted Adam Morrison. He was the third overall pick in the draft. OUCH! Now granted it was hard to call that he would be THAT big of a bust. He was a great player at Gonzaga. But the “Cats could have gotten Rudy Gay with that pick.

They traded Emaka Okafor too. And Tyson Chandler. And Stephen Jackson. Oh, and Gerald Wallace. So who did they get for all these people?

Well, they do have 20 million under the salary cap to spend next off-season and will no doubt get a high first round draft pick. But should Jordan be trusted with making that pick? Or signing that free agent? After all he picked Kwame Brown with a lottery pick while in Washington. #1 in the draft if I recall. So his track record would suggest he does not have the ability to be trusted with this.

So what does “His Airness” have to say about the 3-26 record? Nothing. I guess he thinks he is untouchable after all.