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Milwaukee, Utah and Sacramento are a combined 3-30 and minus-427, with minus-200 in second quarters alone. Herro’s Bucks, the Jazz injury list, Acuff’s Kings, and the 10 teams since 2014-15 that won one or none of their first 11.

A Jazz dunk during Utah’s 115-109 loss to Miami at the Delta Center, Nov. 10, 2026. Photo by Utah Jazz, resized.
Kings players during Sacramento’s 107-100 loss to Orlando, Nov. 10, 2026. Photo by Sacramento Kings, resized.All three lost on Tuesday night. The Bucks fell 117-85 in New York, the Jazz lost 115-109 at home to Miami, and the Kings lost 107-100 at home to Orlando.
That left Milwaukee, Utah and Sacramento with the same record after 11 games: one win, 10 losses. Chicago, at 1-8, is the only other team with one win.
A Jazz drive in the third quarter against Miami, Nov. 10, 2026. Photo by Utah Jazz, resized.Each of the three has won exactly once, and two of those wins came in the first week. Utah won its home opener by a point. Milwaukee beat Indiana three nights later. Sacramento did not win until its seventh game.
Split their games into quarters and the same hole appears for all three. Milwaukee has been outscored by 89 points in second quarters, Sacramento by 56 and Utah by 55.
The three teams trailed at halftime in 25 of their 33 games. They led at the break seven times and were tied once.
Utah and Sacramento have actually won their fourth quarters, by 13 and 14 points, mostly while chasing games that were already gone. Utah’s two overtime losses, to San Antonio and New Orleans, cost it another 13.
Ryan Rollins (13) and the Bucks during the 117-85 loss in New York, Nov. 10, 2026. Photo by Milwaukee Bucks, resized.This is the Bucks’ first season after trading Giannis Antetokounmpo to Miami. Tyler Herro, part of the return, leads them at 21.4 points a game. Jaime Jaquez Jr. adds 15.3 and Kyle Kuzma 11.0.
Milwaukee scores 106.3 points a game and allows 121.2. Its minus-164 total margin is the league’s worst. Only Chicago, at minus-16.6, has been outscored by more per game.
Herro sat out Tuesday in New York. The Bucks scored 13 points in the second quarter and 13 in the fourth, and the Knicks outrebounded them 59-32, including 18-7 on the offensive glass.
“I got to find something that’s going to build consistency for us.”— Bucks coach Taylor Jenkins, after the loss in New York
A Jazz guard in the third quarter against Miami, Nov. 10, 2026. Photo by Utah Jazz, resized.The Jazz have spent most of the season short-handed, and on Tuesday they played without four starters. Jaren Jackson Jr., Lauri Markkanen, Jusuf Nurkić and Keyonte George were all out.
“There’s a lot of hope when I watch the team play like that. They’re not giving in.”— Jazz coach Will Hardy, after the loss to Miami
Darius Acuff Jr. against the Heat, Nov. 8, 2026. Still from NBA video on X, resized.The Kings have the most dangerous scorer of the three. Rookie Darius Acuff Jr. averages 26.2 points and 7.3 assists, and Zach LaVine adds 22.3 points on 50.3 percent shooting. Domantas Sabonis averages 13.8 points and 13.3 rebounds.
The problem was defense, and it has improved. Sacramento allowed 128.3 points a game while starting 0-6. In the five games since, it has allowed 112.2.
The offense has gone the other way, from 109.3 points a game in the first six to 107.0 in the last five. The last two losses were closer, by six to Miami and seven to Orlando.
We checked the game logs of all 360 team-seasons from 2014-15 through 2025-26. Ten teams won one game or none in their first 11.
None of them finished better than 36-46. On average they won 21 games. Before last season, no year had more than two such teams. Last season had three: Brooklyn, Indiana and Washington.
Milwaukee’s margin is worse than the history, too. Only three teams in those 12 seasons were outscored by more than 14.9 points a game through 11 games. Seven had a worse margin than Sacramento’s minus-12.7, and 12 were worse than Utah’s minus-11.2.
The Jazz bring the ball up against Miami at the Delta Center, Nov. 10, 2026. Photo by Utah Jazz, resized.None of the three gets an easy way out. Milwaukee hosts the 10-2 Lakers on Wednesday, the night after New York, and Utah plays the second night of a back-to-back at home.
Three wins in 33 games. No team that started this way in the last 12 seasons got to .500, and the next week brings the Lakers, the Spurs and the Thunder.
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