Eastern Conference (NBA)
The Eastern Conference is next to the Western Conference one of the two Conferences in the highest North American basketball league, the NBA . It contains 15 of the 30 and thus half of the teams in the NBA and is further divided into three divisions , each with five teams. In the 2003/2004 season there were only two divisions per conference, each with seven or eight teams.
The conferences were introduced in the 1970/71 season. Previously there was only an Eastern and a Western Division (with the exception of a Central Division in the 1949/50 season ).
Playoff mode
The three division winners and the top five other teams advance to the Eastern Conference Playoffs . In the first round of these playoffs , the first place in the regular season will play against the eighth place, the second against the seventh etc. in a series of a maximum of seven games against each other. The team that is the first to record four wins ( best-of-seven mode ) goes to the next round. The winner of the Eastern Conference plays against the winner of the Western Conference for the title.
Teams
Locations of the NBA franchises |
Atlantic Division
(on the card above in dark blue ) |
Central Division
(on the map above in green ) |
Southeast Division
(on the map above in light blue ) |
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