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Western Conference
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conference of the National Basketball Association
Key facts
- Formerly
- Western Division
- League
- National Basketball Association
- Sport
- Basketball
- Country
- United States
- Most recent champions
- San Antonio Spurs , (7th title) , ( 2025–26 )
- Most titles
- Los Angeles Lakers , (19 titles)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- athletic conference
- Has part
- Pacific Division
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- basketball
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- opposite of
- Eastern Conference
- inception
- 1970-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Western Conference is one of two conferences that make up the National Basketball Association (NBA), the other being the Eastern Conference. Both conferences consist of 15 teams organized into three divisions. The Western Conference comprises the Northwest, Pacific, and Southwest Divisions.
The current divisional alignment was adopted at the start of the 2004–05 season, when the now Charlotte Hornets (then known as the Charlotte Bobcats) began play as the NBA's 30th franchise. This necessitated the move of the New Orleans Pelicans (named New Orleans Hornets at the time) from the Eastern Conference's Central Division to the newly created Southwest Division of the Western Conference.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Western Conference” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.