Midwest Division

The Midwest Division was a division in the North American basketball league NBA , which was subdivided into the Western Conference and comprised seven teams.

At the start of the 2004/05 season there were by the expansion of the entire league from 29 to 30 teams (the Charlotte Bobcats joined the NBA) in the Western Conference too many teams for only two divisions. The teams of the Pacific Division and the Midwest Division were redistributed and in the course of this the Midwest Division was dissolved. The new Northwest and Southwest divisions were created . In the Eastern Conference , the Southeast Division was introduced in parallel .

The teams

Before its dissolution, the Midwest Division consisted of the following teams: