Despite the good news off the field, and winning four out of five games to start the season, the Wizards just missed out on a playoff berth with a loss to the New York Red Bulls on the final day, finishing with a 10 – 14 – 8 record.

Despite four 50-win seasons, the Bulls began to fall apart after an injury to Sloan and the retirement of Walker.

Despite the shortened 66-game NBA season due to the NBA lockout, the Spurs won 50 games and tied the Chicago Bulls for the best record in the league.

Despite having only 1. 7 % probability, the Bulls won the NBA Draft Lottery and selected Chicago native Derrick Rose with the first pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.

Despite having the same name, this character is not the same as the mascot of the Chicago Bulls.

Despite Flutie's inexperience, the Generals traded Sipe to the Jacksonville Bulls to ensure Flutie would start.

Despite never posting a winning record, the Bulls were considered to be one of the stronger USFL franchise — indeed, one of the few USFL teams with the potential to be viable had the league been better run.

Despite his individual talents, the Bulls lacked the talent and, physical and mental toughness to win ; Detroit won in 5.

Despite this, Lynde's amazing popularity led to his being signed by ABC to host a series of specials from 1975 to 1979, including: The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( November 6, 1975 ) with Jack Albertson, Nancy Walker and the Osmond Brothers ; The Paul Lynde Halloween Special ( October 29, 1976 ) featuring the first prime-time network appearance of KISS, along with Margaret Hamilton recreating her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.

Despite this, Martin acknowledged his " opportunity to have so many amazing experiences with so many amazing people " during his time with the group.

Despite all these amazing powers, Ultraman has one main weakness: Since Earth's atmosphere leeches away his solar energy, Ultraman can only physically exist on Earth for approximately three to five minutes of Earth time.

Despite coming from money and being a business genius, in his younger years his amazing work ethic and determination took a while to pay off.

Despite the amazing early speed the race slowed in the second portion, becoming just the second fastest road stage in Tour history.

Despite its harsh desert environment, Big Bend has an amazing variety and number of plant and animal species.

Despite his amazing accomplishment, Billy weeps not only for the loss of baseball, but for the other love of his life, Jane.

* Rosemary Hickman, transplantation surgeon whom Naki assisted and taught in the laboratory, and who worked with Naki for nearly 30 years: " Despite his limited conventional education, he had an amazing ability to learn anatomical names and recognize anomalies.

Despite the amazing collectibility of this release, it could reach no higher in the charts than # 30 in the UK and # 72 in the US.

In regard to those discussions, Ferguson wrote that the three scholars agreed “... it was unfortunate that so little work was being carried on in so important an area and that something should be done to increase explorations and excavations .... Despite the amazing discoveries made between 1930 and 1950, work on the Pre-Classic was virtually at a standstill in 1951.

Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Despite the Spiders ' second half run, the Beaneaters swept the series, five games to none.

Despite its status as beneficiary of both the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) and the Generalized System of Preferences ( GSP )-- both of which confer duty free status on Honduran imports to the United States — Honduras has run a long-standing trade deficit with the United States.

Despite its short run, The Westerner and Peckinpah were nominated by the Producers Guild of America for Best Filmed Series.

Despite being shut out four times in ten games, the Giants recorded an 18 – 8 September to move into first by three games as the pitching staff achieved a team ERA of 1. 78, the lowest in the National League in a September stretch run since the 1965 Dodgers.

Despite their great defensive effort, the Giants still trailed 13-9 late in the fourth quarter, but a 30-yard run from linebacker Gary Reasons on a fake punt set up kicker Matt Bahr's fourth field goal, cutting their deficit to 13-12.

Despite the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgement after a home run.

Despite the advice of several liberal and environmental groups, Nader did not formally run.

Despite producing one Top 10 and two Top 20 singles, the album peaked at No. 8 with a six week chart run.

Despite more recent materials, Dendix and Neveplast remain the only artificial ski surfaces on which it is practical to run ski slalom races.

Despite finishing the 2005 – 06 season in seventh, Roeder's fortunes changed in the 2006 – 07 season, with a terrible injury run to the senior squad, and he left the club by mutual consent on 6 May 2007.

Despite its overwhelmingly negative reception and short run, the series still has been rebroadcast in later years, with VH1 and A & E Network airing it on separate occasions later in the 1990s, and Trio airing it in the 2000s.

Despite this statement the party is made of several former politicians, who had run Poland before, as well as including ex-members of SLD who left the party when it faced a corruption crisis.

Despite a rather disastrous production in Bergamo shortly after its initial run at La Fenice, the opera soon entered the repertory of Italian theatres.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

Despite the opera's success, Carvalho's financial difficulties meant a run of only 18 performances.

Despite beginning as favourites to retain the championship, Rangers suffered an unprecedented run of poor results between September and November, a club record run of 10 games without a win.

Despite underachieving in the regular season ( their points total decreased by 16 from the previous year ), the Canucks played well in the playoffs and embarked on another unexpected run.

Despite lack of approval from Metellus ( brought on by Marius ' status as a novus homo ) who instead advised Marius to wait and run with Metellus ' son ( who was only twenty, which would signify a campaign 20 years in the future ) Marius began to campaign for the consulship.

Despite its impressive run in publication, The Robe is more familiar today as a 1953 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio ( Richard Burton ) who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus Christ.

Despite the sweltering heat of summer, he continued to run per day.

Despite his poor health, he accepted his party's second nomination to run for Vice President in the election of 1884 as Grover Cleveland's running mate, and served in that office until his death only eight months later.