Central Division (NBA)

The Central Division is one of the divisions in the North American Basketball League National Basketball Association (NBA). The teams of the league are divided into two conferences ( Eastern Conference and Western Conference ), which in turn are divided into divisions. A division consists of five teams and in a conference there are three divisions .

The division into divisions is based on the local situation of the teams. In the Central Division , the teams that are based in the Midwest east of the Mississippi in the northern interior of the USA , primarily in the Great Lakes region, play.

The Central Division has existed since 1970 with the introduction of the conferences . Before that there was an Eastern and a Western division with seven members each in place of the conferences . Only in the 1949/50 season was there a Central Division alongside the other two after the merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL) to form the NBA . It consisted of the teams of the Western Division of the previous year, namely the Rochester Royals , the Fort Wayne Pistons , the Minneapolis Lakers and the disbanded Chicago Stags and St. Louis Bombers .

The teams

The following teams play in the Central Division :

• Chicago Bulls
• Cleveland Cavaliers
• Detroit Pistons
• Indiana Pacers
• Milwaukee Bucks

Former teams

• Atlanta Hawks
• Cincinnati Royals
• Houston Rockets
• New Orleans Hornets
• New Orleans Jazz
• Orlando Magic
• San Antonio Spurs
• Toronto Raptors
• Washington Bullets

winner

year Surname 1971 Baltimore Bullets 1972 Baltimore Bullets 1973 Baltimore Bullets 1974 Capital bullets 1975 Washington Bullets 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers 1977 Houston Rockets 1978 San Antonio Spurs 1979 San Antonio Spurs 1980 Atlanta Hawks 1981 Milwaukee Bucks 1982 Milwaukee Bucks

year Surname 1983 Milwaukee Bucks 1984 Milwaukee Bucks 1985 Milwaukee Bucks 1986 Milwaukee Bucks 1987 Atlanta Hawks 1988 Detroit Pistons 1989 Detroit Pistons 1990 Detroit Pistons 1991 Chicago Bulls 1992 Chicago Bulls 1993 Chicago Bulls 1994 Atlanta Hawks

year Surname 1995 Indiana Pacers 1996 Chicago Bulls 1997 Chicago Bulls 1998 Chicago Bulls 1999 Indiana Pacers 2000 Indiana Pacers 2001 Milwaukee Bucks 2002 Detroit Pistons 2003 Detroit Pistons 2004 Indiana Pacers 2005 Detroit Pistons 2006 Detroit Pistons

year Surname 2007 Detroit Pistons 2008 Detroit Pistons 2009 Cleveland Cavaliers 2010 Cleveland Cavaliers 2011 Chicago Bulls 2012 Chicago Bulls 2013 Indiana Pacers 2014 Indiana Pacers 2015 Cleveland Cavaliers 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers 2017 Cleveland Cavaliers 2018 Cleveland Cavaliers

year Surname 2019 Milwaukee Bucks