The NBA regular season has been going on so far, most teams have only 13-16 regular season games left, and each team is working hard for its own goals, impacting the playoffs, impacting the playoffs or card slots, very intense. Among them, the competition in the west can be described as white-hot, and there are 5 major suspense waiting to be revealed;
When the Suns will win;
The Suns have played 68 regular season games, with only 14 games left, with a win rate of 79.4%, ranking first in the West and number one in the league. The Current Suns are 7.5 wins ahead of the Grizzlies behind them, and it is basically certain that they will win the regular season Western Conference championship this season, but when they will be able to lock in the first place in the West, or even win the first place in the league, explaining the home advantage of all the playoffs this season, it is still unknown. But in terms of the current state of the sun, this is not difficult for them.
Battle of the Bears;
In addition to the Suns at the top of the table, the competition for second place in the West is also very fierce, and the second place is the Grizzlies, who are 0.5 wins ahead of the Warriors, and both teams have lost 22 games, and the Warriors have only one less game. Because it is very difficult for other teams to catch up with the Grizzlies and Warriors, the second place in the regular season in the Western Conference this season is still a battle for the Brave Bears. The second place in the regular season is against the seventh place, the seventh place is required to be produced through the playoffs, and the opponent is most likely a team from Los Angeles.
4 teams compete for 3 straight seats;
The Jazz, Lone Rangers, Nuggets and Timberwolves are currently in 4th-7th place in the West, and the gap between them is not large. It is worth mentioning that the top six in the regular season can directly get tickets to the playoffs, and the seventh place needs to participate in a single-game playoff playoff, so the Western Card position, competing for the top six is the goal of these teams at present. The Timberwolves, though tentatively seventh, are only 1.5 wins away from the Nuggets in front of them, and the Timberwolves have 13 games to go, and they have a chance.
Lakers rankings;
The Lakers lost to the Suns by 29 points today and were killed three times by their opponents, so they have never won a winning streak in the past 2 months. At present, the Lakers are ninth in the West with a score of 29 wins and 38 losses, and with 15 games left, there is little hope of catching up with the top six. The most practical problem for the Lakers at the moment is to fight for eighth place, after all, they are nine wins behind the seventh-place Timberwolves, so it is also good to compete for an eighth place where a playoff can make mistakes. But at present, the Lakers are 5.5 wins behind the Clippers, and it is still very difficult to catch up. If you are ninth or tenth, you will need to win both playoffs to advance to the playoffs.
Who will be at the bottom;
At the bottom of the West is the Rockets, who have lost 51 games, but think of the fact that they have beaten the Lakers before and are only 3.5 wins behind the second-to-last Thunder, so who can rank at the bottom of the West is still suspenseful. The advantage of the team at the bottom of the ranking is that it can have a greater probability of winning the title or the top spot in this year's draft.