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Cleveland Cavaliers

The Cleveland Cavaliers are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division.

Miami Heat

The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami. The Heat compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Heat play their home games at American Airlines Arena, and have won three NBA championships.

Founded in 1988 as an expansion team, the Heat have made the playoffs on fourteen occasions in their thirty seasons of play. From 1993 to 2016, the Heat missed the playoffs only three times. In 2011, following a competitive decade in which they maintained one of the league’s best records and qualified for nine straight playoff appearances, they went on to win their first NBA Championship behind some of the game’s most prolific players; this was followed by their second and third titles in 2012 and 2013. Led by All-Star small forward Dwyane Wade and power forward Chris Bosh, they played dominant basketball en route to four consecutive NBA Finals appearances from 2011 to 2014, winning two championships during that span. They then entered a rebuilding phase with superstar LeBron James’ departure in 2014. However, despite entering into another rebuild after his return to Cleveland a year later, they managed to make four straight post-season appearances from 2016 to 2019; in 2020 NBA season resumption after coronavirus pandemic hiatus, led by Jimmy Butler acquired just before its start via trade, they advanced all the way to NBA Finals for the first time since 2014 but eventually lost it against Los Angeles Lakers.

Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. They play their home games at the TD Garden, which they share with the National Hockey League (NHL)’s Boston Bruins. The Celtics are one of the most successful teams in NBA history; as of November 2019, they have won 22 league championships, with 18 coming between 1957 and 1986, which is an NBA record. They are also the only franchise to win championships in four consecutive decades since the 1950s.

Toronto Raptors

The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Raptors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA’s expansion into Canada. Home games were first held at the SkyDome, before moving to the Air Canada Centre in 1999.

The Raptors are the only Canadian-based NBA team along with the Vancouver Grizzlies (which relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, United States in 2001), and are one of two NBA teams located outside the United States (the other being the Houston Rockets). Toronto is currently the easternmost city with an NBA franchise.

The team’s name originates from a common dinosaur with reptilian features known as Velociraptor. Their mascot “the Raptor” is a costume version of this creature. As usual for North American sports teams they have also established their own foundation which focuses on community work across Southwestern Ontario and Toronto itself.

Oklahoma City Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder are an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Thunder compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Northwest Division. The team plays its home games at Chesapeake Energy Arena.

The Thunder were originally established as the Seattle SuperSonics, an expansion team that joined the NBA for the 1967–68 season. The SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008 after a settlement was reached between the state of Oklahoma and the SuperSonics’ previous owner, the Professional Basketball Club LLC. Paul George, Russell Westbrook, Steven Adams, and Dennis Schröder are all notable current players forOKCThunder.

San Antonio Spurs

The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the AT&T Center in San Antonio.

The Spurs are one of four former American Basketball Association teams to remain intact in the NBA after the 1976 ABA–NBA merger and are one of only two former ABA teams to have won an NBA championship, the other being the Indiana Pacers.

Los Angeles Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division and are one of two teams from California in the NBA, the other being the Los Angeles Lakers.

Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are a professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The Rockets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the Toyota Center, located in downtown Houston. The Rockets have won four Western Conference titles (1981, 1986, 1994, and 1995) and six divisional titles (1977, 1986, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996). In 50 seasons of play (1971–72 to 2020–21), the Rockets have compiled a regular season record of 2,451–1,397 (.637), winning more than 60 percent of their games overall.

The franchise was established as the San Diego Rockets, an expansion team originally based in San Diego, in 1967. In 1971, the Rockets moved to Houston; the team’s name was changed to reflect its new city. The Rockets won only 15 games in their debut season as a league worst 20–62 record. In the 1969 NBA draft lottery pick that year who drafted first overall chose Lew Alcindor from UCLA who promptly changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who had immediate success leading them past their expansion cousins New Orleans Jazz into playoff contention for their second season with a 34–48 (.415) win/loss mark. They went on to make the playoffs seven times in their next nine seasons culminating in a 1977 conference semi-final appearance against the Seattle SuperSonics which they lost four games to two. They never managed to get past 2nd round of playoffs since then until they finally broke through under head coach Rudy Tomjanovich taking them all the way to NBA finals for back-to-back championship wins against Eastern Conference teams New York Knicks (1994) and Orlando Magic (1995).

Memphis Grizzlies

The Memphis Grizzlies are an American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee. The Grizzlies compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league’s Western Conference Southwest Division. The Grizzlies play their home games at FedExForum. The team is owned by Robert Pera. The Grizzlies are currently the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues based in Memphis.

The team was established as the Vancouver Grizzlies, an expansion team that joined the NBA for the 1995–96 season. After relocating to Memphis, Tennessee, before the 2001–02 season, the franchise joined the NBA’s Western Conference Southwest Division. As a result of being based in one of only two Canadian markets without another NBA franchise (the other being Winnipeg), along with only having several hundred fans attend most home games during their five-year tenure in Vancouver, resulting in mounting financial losses for then-owners Michael Heisley and Stu Jackson; on July 3, 2001, NBA owners unanimously voted to allow Heisley to move the franchise to Memphis.[8][9]

The Vancouver Grizzlies’ name and logos were assigned to a new Charlotte expansion franchise which began play in 2019.

Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks are an American professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. The Mavericks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the American Airlines Center, which it shares with the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars.

New Orleans Pelicans

The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Pelicans compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league’s Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays their home games in the Smoothie King Center.

The Pelicans were established as the Charlotte Hornets in 1988 as an expansion team, and were based in Charlotte, North Carolina, until 2002 when they relocated to New Orleans. The team played their first ever game on October 30, 1988.

In 2012, the Pelicans acquired All-Star center Demarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings. The pairing of Anthony Davis and Cousins helped the Pelicans make their first playoff appearance in 2015. In 2019, the team fired head coach Alvin Gentry and replaced him with former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Griffin.

Minnesota Timberwolves

The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Timberwolves compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league’s Western Conference Northwest Division. Founded in 1989, the team is owned by Glen Taylor who also owns the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx. The Timberwolves play their home games at Target Center, their home since 1990.

Led by Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins and Jimmy Butler, the team made the playoffs for the first time in 14 years in 2017. That ended a string of 12 straight playoff appearances by the Timberwolves, which was the longest active streak in major professional sports at the time. They were eliminated from playoff contention in 2018 and again in 2019.

Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Conference’s Pacific Division. The Kings are the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in Sacramento. The team plays its home games at the Golden 1 Center. Their best season came in 2002–03 when they won a then-record 61 games and qualified for the playoffs for just the second time since moving to Sacramento.

Portland Trail Blazers

The Portland Trail 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. The franchise was founded in 1970, and played their home games in Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda Center (formerly Rose Garden Arena) in 1995.

Utah Jazz

The Utah Jazz are currently leading the NBA game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The score is 88-87, with the Jazz leading by 1 point.