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| League | National Basketball Association |
|---|---|
| Sport | Basketball |
| First season | 1946–47 BAA season |
| Ceased | 1969–70 NBA season |
| Replaced by | Western Conference |
| Last champion(s) | Atlanta Hawks (7th title) (1970) |
| Most titles | Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers (8 titles) |
The Western Division was a division in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its forerunner, the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The division was created at the start of the 1946–47 BAA season,[1] when the league was created, and was then kept as one of the divisions when BAA merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) to create the NBA on August 3, 1949.[2] The division existed until the 1970–71 NBA season when the NBA expanded from 14 to 17 teams and realigned into the Eastern and Western conferences with two divisions each.[3]
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- ^ "NBA is born". History.com. November 16, 2009. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
- ^ "N.B.A. Is Realigned Into Four Divisions". The New York Times. April 24, 1970. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2020.