{"id":70818,"date":"2025-12-15T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70818\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:25:12","slug":"we-lost-by-45-points-to-a-team-thats-trying-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70818\/","title":{"rendered":"We lost by 45 points to a team that\u2019s trying to lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Kuzma on Bucks&#8217; loss to Brooklyn: We lost by 45 points to a team that\u2019s trying to lose<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HoopsHype<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 14, 2025, 11:27 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At halftime, they trailed by 17 points. By the end of the third quarter, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" data-autotag=\"02f2623f-cb52-4847-8284-ff461d726c25\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Nets<\/a>\u2019 lead ballooned to 28 points. Less than three minutes into the fourth quarter, it was up over 30 and ultimately stopped at 45 points (tying the Nets\u2019 largest win in franchise history) as the buzzer sounded to end Sunday\u2019s embarrassing effort. It was only the fourth time in franchise history the Bucks have lost by 45 or more points and their worst margin of defeat since a 114-69 loss to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/detroit-pistons\/8\/\" data-autotag=\"3cf4207f-5b2d-4335-b9df-baab70e08bac\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Dec. 31, 2007. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6889675\/2025\/12\/14\/bucks-blowout-loss-nets-doc-rivers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNo question. Absolutely,\u201d Kuzma said when asked by The Athletic if he viewed this as the low point of the Bucks\u2019 season. \u201cLost by 45 points to a team that\u2019s trying to lose. They got four wins, five wins, whatever it is now<\/a>. \u201cNo disrespect at all because that\u2019s the beauty of this league, right? There\u2019s so much talent, and if you\u2019re not ready, you\u2019re gonna get your butt whooped. By any team. And we were proof of that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6889675\/2025\/12\/14\/bucks-blowout-loss-nets-doc-rivers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 www.hoopshype.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765787112_41_p\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Kuzma on Bucks&#8217; loss to Brooklyn: We lost by 45 points to a team that\u2019s trying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[679,98,100,99,9,24,63,15480,15481,4503,7204,19089,30459,13941,15485,1047,949,682],"class_list":["post-70818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-accessfree","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbrooklyn-nets","tag-tagdetroit-pistons","tag-tagkyle-kuzma","tag-tagmilwaukee-bucks","tag-tagnew-york-times-company","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}