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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
 8**
Play-in
 9**
Play-in
 10**
Play-in
 11
Thunder 43 9 52 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Grizzlies 35 17 52 23 29 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Nuggets 35 19 54 21 27 28 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Rockets 33 20 53 20 26 28 28 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Lakers 32 19 51 21 27 29 30 31 MW MW MW MW MW MW
TimberwolvesT. Wolves 30 24 54 16 22 23 25 26 28 28 MW MW MW MW
Clippers 29 23 52 17 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 MW MW MW
Mavericks 28 26 54 14 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MW MW
Kings 27 26 53 14 20 22 23 24 26 27 27 28 29 MW
Warriors 27 26 53 14 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 MW
 
Suns 26 26 52 14 20 22 23 25 26 26 27 28 29 MW
Spurs 23 28 51 12 18 19 21 22 24 25 25 26 28 MW
Trail Blazers 23 31 54 9 15 16 17 19 21 21 22 23 24 MW
Jazz 12 40 52 X 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 MW
Pelicans 12 41 53 X 5 6 8 9 11 12 12 13 15 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