The Thunder are young and precocious enough to need and value the No. 1 seed, and the still-untapped upside of so many of ...

There are 12 teams — 13 if you believe in the San Antonio Spurs — who expect to make the playoffs but just eight spots. There ...

There simply were not a lot of options for the Nuggets X-Factor, which led to Jamal Murray being ...

Technically, 16 teams make the NBA playoffs each season. Eight teams from the Western Conference and eight from the Eastern Conference. Those teams are seeded one through eight. The playoffs last ...

After producing three of the league’s last five champions, the NBA’s Western Conference comes into this season as the ...

The Memphis Grizzlies have released veteran guard Derrick Rose just a few weeks before the start of the NBA Season ... lead the Bulls to the Eastern Conference Finals where they fell to a LeBron ...

Amid this uncertainty, two teams in the Western Conference have the potential to make a leap from the lottery to the playoffs this year ... played streak in the NBA (222), was the Kings ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder are viewed by many NBA observers as one of the ... I am ready to put them in the Western Conference Finals right now with the best record in the league." ...

Jayson Tatum was certain that he'd be a champion before reaching the 2024 NBA Finals ... Timberwolves in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs. "People always ask me, when did ...

The Western Conference was an absolute bloodbath ... but Minnesota was in the conference finals a few months ago. On the surface, there was no motivation to trade the former No. 1 pick.

Last week we published our annual Top 100 NBA player rankings, and seven of the top 10 players, as voted on by our panel of 10 analysts, hail from the Western Conference -- which, top to bottom ...

ESPN hits the hardwood with "Clutch: The NBA Playoffs" presented by NBA 2K25 ... Thunder's young core captured the top seed in the Western Conference, led by All-NBA guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.