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The 1949–50 Minneapolis Lakers, who won the NBA Finals, are not counted in the Eastern versus Western champions record above as they played in the Central Division. The first parentheses in the Western champions and Eastern champions columns indicate the teams' playoff seed. The second parentheses indicate the number of times that teams have ...
The Minnesota Timberwolves and the Orlando Magic are enfranchised as the league's 26th and 27th teams. The Timberwolves are placed in the Midwest Division and the Magic in the Central Division. The Charlotte Hornets and the Miami Heat switched conferences.
Lost division finals: Virginia 4, New York 2 Kentucky 4, Virginia 2 1971–72: 45: 39.536: Won Division Semifinals Lost division finals: Virginia 4, Floridans 0 New York 4, Virginia 3 1972–73: 42: 42.500: Lost Division Semifinals: Kentucky 4, Virginia 1 1973–74: 28: 56.333: Lost Division Semifinals: New York 4, Virginia 1 1974–75: 15: 69 ...
Below is a list of current National Basketball Association (NBA) Western Conference team rosters. NBA rosters are limited to 15 players during the regular season, plus three players on two-way contracts, expanding each team's roster to 18 players maximum. Teams may carry up to 21 players during the offseason.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world. [3]
From 1937–38 to 1939–40, and again from 1944–45 to 1948–49, the championship series pitted the winners from the Eastern Division against the winners from the Western Division. However, due to fewer teams in the league caused by World War II , the NBL was not separated into divisions between 1940–41 and 1943–44, therefore the ...
NBA rosters are limited to 15 players during the regular season, plus three players on two-way contracts, expanding each team's roster to 18 players maximum. Teams may carry up to 20 players during the offseason. [1] Due to technical limitations, this list is split into two lists by conference during the offseason when rosters are larger.
The league currently consists of thirty teams, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada. Each team plays 82 games in the regular season. Eight teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs. The winners of the Conference finals advance to the finals to determine the NBA champions.