The Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association is made up of fifteen teams, and organized in three divisions of five teams each.
The three division winners and the non-division winner with the best record are seeded 1 through 4 for the playoffs in order of their record, with all remaining non-division winners seeded 5 through 8. This leaves open the possibility that a #2 seed could be a non-division winner. Home-court advantage in a playoff series is decided by record, not by seeding, so if a #4 and #5 team met in a playoff series in which the #5 team had the better record, the #5 team would have home-court advantage.
The reasoning behind this seeding arrangement is due to the fact that a non-division winner could have a better record than the winners of the two divisions other than the non-division winning team in question. If the three division winners were seeded 1 through 3 for the playoffs in order of their record, and all non-division winners seeded 4 through 8, it would be possible for the two best teams of the conference to meet in the Conference Semifinals. This actually happened in the 2006 NBA Playoffs when the two best teams in the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks, both from the Southwest Division, faced one another in the Western Conference Semifinals while the 3rd seed, the Northwest Division-leading Denver Nuggets, had fewer wins than the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th seeds. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. The Dallas Mavericks (also known as the Mavs) are the professional Basketball team of the National Basketball Association based in Dallas Texas The Southwest Division is a division in the Western Conference of the NBA. The Northwest Division is a division in the Western Conference of the NBA. The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. The NBA proposed and approved of the current format to ensure that the best two teams of a conference can meet no earlier than the Conference Finals.
The Eastern Conference playoffs is divided into two playoff rounds, and The Conference Finals after the NBA Playoffs with the winner of the Conference Championship facing the Western Conference champion in the NBA Finals to determine the champion. The Western Conference of the National Basketball Association is made up of fifteen teams and organized in three divisions of five teams each The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association and the conclusion of the sport's postseason each June All playoff series are best-of-seven. There are several different Playoff formats used in various levels of competition in Sports and Games Some of the most common are the single elimination
The current divisional alignment was adopted at the start of the 2004-05 season, when the Charlotte Bobcats began play as the NBA's 30th franchise. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA The Charlotte Bobcats are a professional Basketball team based in Charlotte North Carolina. This necessitated the move of the New Orleans Hornets from the Eastern Conference's Central Division to the newly-created Southwest Division of the Western Conference. The New Orleans Hornets are a professional Basketball team based in New Orleans Louisiana, United States. The Western Conference of the National Basketball Association is made up of fifteen teams and organized in three divisions of five teams each
Current organization
The Eastern Conference teams are organized as follows:
Former teams
Defunct
Relocated to Western Conference
Eastern Conference champions
- Eastern Conference was named Eastern Division until 1970
- NBA Champions in bold
List of Eastern Conference teams with the most conference championships
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