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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|---|---|---|
| Home | Visitor | |
| Warriors (29‑26) |
Celtics (35‑19) |
58 |
| Clippers (26‑28) |
Nuggets (35‑20) |
57 |
| Spurs (38‑16) |
Suns (32‑23) |
49 |
| Timberwolves (34‑22) |
Mavericks (19‑35) |
45 |
| Hornets (26‑29) |
Rockets (33‑20) |
32 |
| Grizzlies (20‑33) |
Jazz (18‑38) |
10 |
| Kings (12‑44) |
Magic (28‑25) |
9 |
| Pelicans (15‑41) |
Bucks (23‑30) |
6 |