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A 2-15 record will usually lose you your job in most professional sports.

Yahoo! Sports is reporting that Washington Wizards head coach Flip Saunders has been let go after a dismal start to his third season with the team. (WTOP writes that the Wizards are the NBA’s only winless team while on the road.)

Saunders came to the Wizards in 2009 by way of the Detroit Pistons where, ironically enough, he led the team to a 64-18 record in the 2005-2006 season — a franchise record. Before that, he was with the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he coached for eight seasons.

Since he got to Washington, though, the team has basically stunk something awful, winning 26 games in 2009-2010 and only 23 games in 2010-2011. (Saunders was being paid $18 million over four years.) That being said, the Wizards were already on a downward slide before Saunders arrived — former coach Eddie Jordan was similarly dismissed for a crappy start to the 2008 season.

Assistant Coach Randy Wittman will take over as head coach in the interim, and while WIzards fans mourn, we’ll always have this dunk to savor.