The Most Important Games for a conference are those games in the upcoming week whose outcome most changes the final playoff picture. The Importance Factor provides a relative importance between games. Use this table to identify the most interesting Western conference games in the upcoming week of play. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.
| Game | Importance Factor (0‑∼100) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Home | Visitor | |
| Suns (30‑19) |
Clippers (22‑25) |
61 |
| Pacers (13‑36) |
Rockets (30‑17) |
42 |
| Grizzlies (18‑29) |
Timberwolves (31‑19) |
42 |
| Knicks (30‑18) |
Lakers (29‑18) |
41 |
| Nuggets (33‑16) |
Thunder (38‑11) |
39 |
| Trail Blazers (23‑26) |
Cavaliers (29‑21) |
36 |
| Spurs (32‑16) |
Magic (25‑22) |
33 |
| Raptors (29‑21) |
Jazz (15‑34) |
14 |
| Hornets (22‑28) |
Pelicans (13‑38) |
9 |
| Wizards (12‑35) |
Kings (12‑38) |
9 |