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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 51 15 66 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW ^ ^ ^ ^
Spurs 48 17 65 15 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW ^ ^
Rockets 40 24 64 8 10 17 18 18 MW MW MW MW MW MW
Lakers 40 25 65 7 9 16 17 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
TimberwolvesT. Wolves 40 25 65 7 10 16 17 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Nuggets 39 26 65 6 9 15 16 17 MW MW MW MW MW MW
Suns 38 27 65 5 8 14 15 16 16 MW MW MW MW MW
Clippers 32 32 64 X 3 9 10 11 12 13 18 18 MW MW
Warriors 32 33 65 X 2 8 9 10 11 12 17 MW MW MW
Trail Blazers 31 35 66 X X 6 7 8 9 10 15 16 MW MW
 
Grizzlies 23 41 64 X X X 1 2 3 4 9 10 11 MW
Mavericks 21 44 65 X X X X X X 1 6 7 8 MW
Pelicans 21 45 66 X X X X X X X 5 6 7 MW
Jazz 20 45 65 X X X X X X X 4 5 6 MW
Kings 16 50 66 X X X X X X X X 1 1 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