What Teams Are In The Nba Playoffs 2021?
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The 2021 NBA Playoffs are just around the corner and we can’t wait to see which teams will be fighting for the championship title! Check out our blog to see which teams are in the playoffs this year.
Eastern Conference
The Eastern Conference is made up of the following teams: Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets, and Orlando Magic.
Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and play at the Fiserv Forum. former owners Wes Edens and Marc Lasry are the principal owners of the franchise.
Brooklyn Nets
The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games at Barclays Center. They are one of two NBA teams located in New York City; the other is the New York Knicks. The club was established in 1967 as a charter franchise of the NBA’s rival league, the American Basketball Association (ABA). They played in New Jersey as the New Jersey Americans during their first season, before moving to Long Island in 1968 and changing their name to the New York Nets. During this time, the Nets won two ABA championships (in 1974 and 1976). In 1976, after losing their homes due to financial troubles, they relocated to uniondale, where they became known as Long Island Nets until 2012. In 2012, with then-new owner Mikhail Prokhorov ready to spend heavily on personnel, they moved back to Brooklyn and were renamed for a second time after local baseball team Brooklyn Dodgers.”[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets Brooklyn Nets].” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed March 12, 2021.
Season by season records
Footnotes
References
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Philadelphia 76ers
The Philadelphia 76ers (often referred to as the Sixers) are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Atlantic Division and play at the Wells Fargo Center. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest teams in the NBA, and one of only eight to survive the league’s first decade.
Miami Heat
The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami. The Heat compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Southeast Division. They play their home games at American Airlines Arena, and have won three NBA championships.
Western Conference
1. Los Angeles Lakers 2. Denver Nuggets 3. Portland Trail Blazers 4. Houston Rockets 5. Utah Jazz 6. Oklahoma City Thunder 7. Dallas Mavericks 8. Memphis Grizzlies
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Lakers compete in the Western Conference and are one of the eight teams that qualified for the 2021 NBA playoffs.
The Lakers finished the regular season with a record of 42-30, which was good for seventh place in the Western Conference. They will face the second-seeded Phoenix Suns in the first round of the playoffs.
The Lakers are one of the most successful franchises in NBA history, having won 16 championships. They have also appeared in 31 Finals series, which is also an NBA record.
Los Angeles Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. The Clippers play their home games at Staples Center, an arena they share with fellow NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers, as well as the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The franchise was founded in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves, one of three expansion teams to join the NBA that year. The Braves moved from Buffalo, New York to San Diego, California in 1978 and became known as the San Diego Clippers. In 1984, The Clippers moved to Los Angeles. Through much of its history, the franchise failed to see significant regular-season or playoff success. The Clippers were frequently seen as an example of a perennial loser in American professional sports, drawing unfavorable comparisons to their in-city rivals, the Lakers.
Led by star players such as Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul, since 2011–12 the Clippers have been one of the league’s premier teams, making nine appearances in the NBA playoffs, including four trips to the Western Conference Finals and two Western Conference Championships. They also share a rivalry with fellow Pacific Division team Golden State Warriors.
Denver Nuggets
The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Northwest Division. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA), but changed its name to Rockets before the first game. It changed its name again to the Nuggets in 1974. After the name change, the Nuggets played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976, losing to the New York Nets.
The Nuggets joined the NBA in 1976 after the ABA–NBA merger and started their season as finalists of then-ABA’s last championship series where they were defeated by Indiana Pacers. They have not been back to Finals since. Between 1995 and 2013, led by playmakers such as point guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and shooting guard Dale Ellis on offense and power forward Antonio McDyess andcenter Dikembe Mutombo on defense, they were one of the teams of what some critics called “the Greatest Show on Court,” playing an exciting brand of uptempo basketball. However, after missing playoff seven out of eight times from 2005 through 2013, they finally returned to postseason play in 2014 under head coach Brian Shaw.
Portland Trail Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league’s Western Conference Northwest Division.
