This team can't stop losing because they were built to tank. There has been much recent discussion of lottery teams resting veterans and having few incentives to win down the stretch, since losing could improve teams' chances of landing a top-three pick or just bump them up a slot or two in the draft. ESPN's TrueHoop blog has launched a war on tanking in the past month, and, quite appropriately, searching TrueHoop for posts tagged with "Charlotte Bobcats" yields more than 6,000 words on tanking before any other coverage of the team. But Charlotte's quest for the worst began long before March. Depending on how you want to look at it, the tanking began when the Bobcats trotted out this roster for their first game of the season (a win, actually, over Milwaukee); or it began last summer, when Charlotte hired Rich Cho to be its GM and green-lit his plan to rebuild by stripping the team of veteran talent and becoming terrible enough to improve through the draft; or it began at the trade deadline in 2011, when they sent Gerald Wallace to Portland for Joel Przybilla, Dante Cunningham, and two first-round picks.