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Western Conference Losing Magic Numbers

How close is your team from being eliminated from winning a certain playoff spot? A Losing Magic Number is the number of games a team must lose to guarantee losing a given playoff spot. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.

Western Conference Losing Magic Numbers
Record Rcrd Conference Playoff Spots No
Playoffs
No
POs
Team W L GPi
Games Played
82 game season
1*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
2*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
3*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
4*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
5 6 7**
Play-in Tournament
Participant
8**
Play-in Tournament
Participant
9**
Play-in Tournament
Participant
10**
Play-in Tournament
Participant
11
Thunder 54 12 66 MW MW MW MW MW MW ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Nuggets 42 24 66 4 15 16 16 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Grizzlies 42 24 66 4 15 16 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Rockets 41 25 66 4 14 16 16 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Lakers 40 23 63 6 16 17 18 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
TimberwolvesT. Wolves 38 29 67 X 10 11 12 13 MW MW MW MW MW MW
Warriors 37 28 65 1 11 12 13 14 17 17 MW MW MW MW
Clippers 36 30 66 X 9 10 11 12 15 16 MW MW MW MW
Kings 33 31 64 X 8 9 10 11 14 15 16 MW MW MW
Mavericks 33 34 67 X 5 6 7 9 11 12 13 15 MW MW
 
Suns 30 36 66 X 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 14 14 MW
Trail Blazers 28 39 67 X X 1 1 3 6 6 8 10 11 MW
Spurs 27 37 64 X 2 3 3 5 8 9 10 13 13 MW
Pelicans 18 48 66 X X X X X X X X 1 1 MW
Jazz 15 51 66 X X X X X X X X X X MW
  • Notes
  • ^ means the team will finish better than this spot
  • X means the team cannot win this spot
  • numeric indicates the number of games that must be lost to guarantee losing this spot
  • "MW" indicates the team Might Win the spot despite losing all of its remaining games
  • *  denotes first round home field advantage in the playoffs
  • ** denotes Play-in Tournament Participant