This is the worst case scenario of professional basketball. The sports' greatest fan base in the world's biggest city dividing themselves by having two teams and both of them stink.

The Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks had their first meeting this year while both of them are claiming to be contenders. Prior to the game, the combined record of the teams are 7-25. Their combined payroll of over $ 300 million this year is outright irresponsible. If you combine that with their record, it is outright embarrassing.

Zach Lowe of Grantland was at the game, and he recounted this hilarious sequence of incompetence:

"Another good one for the follies reel came three minutes later, starting when Raymond Felton tried to drive through Livingston's body. Felton can't jump. Livingston is tall. Livingston blocked the shot before it even left Felton's hand.

And here come the Nets, down just 11, looking to get back in the game before a (not really) raucous home crowd! Joe Johnson pushed the ball hard, kicked it to Alan Anderson, and Anderson rose for a transition pull-up 3-pointer that would surely rouse the crowd. It grazed the bottom of the net - another air ball.

But wait! Andray Blatche has the rebound under the rim! He's going to put it back in and cut the lead to single digits! And ... Blatche shuffles his feet, a traveling violation. The entire sequence took nine seconds."

Lowe also christened the game as 'The Toilet Bowl.' If their rematch at the Garden sees them with losing record, that moniker just might stick.

After the game which saw the Knicks snap their nine game losing streak, the Nets made the usual excuses as they were missing their point guard Deron Williams and Andrei Kirilenko.

The Knicks proceeded to win over Orlando with a 38 point lead. The Nets continued to lose.