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) |
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|---|---|---|
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| Rockets (38‑22) |
Warriors (31‑30) |
64 |
| Nuggets (38‑24) |
Lakers (37‑24) |
50 |
| Clippers (29‑31) |
Pacers (15‑46) |
48 |
| Grizzlies (23‑37) |
Trail Blazers (29‑33) |
40 |
| Suns (35‑26) |
Bulls (25‑37) |
39 |
| Timberwolves (39‑23) |
Raptors (35‑26) |
38 |
| Magic (32‑28) |
Mavericks (21‑40) |
12 |
| Knicks (40‑22) |
Thunder (48‑15) |
10 |
| Spurs (44‑17) |
Pistons (45‑15) |
10 |
| Sixers (33‑28) |
Jazz (18‑43) |
6 |
| Kings (14‑49) |
Pelicans (19‑44) |
6 |