The Most Important Games for a conference are those games in the upcoming week whose outcome most changes the final playoff picture. The Importance Factor provides a relative importance between games. Use this table to identify the most interesting Western conference games in the upcoming week of play. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.
| Game | Importance Factor (0‑∼100) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Home | Visitor | |
| Warriors (32‑33) |
Timberwolves (40‑26) |
71 |
| Pacers (15‑50) |
Suns (38‑27) |
44 |
| Spurs (48‑17) |
Nuggets (40‑26) |
41 |
| Lakers (40‑25) |
Bulls (27‑38) |
41 |
| Trail Blazers (31‑35) |
Jazz (20‑46) |
31 |
| Rockets (40‑25) |
Pelicans (22‑45) |
30 |
| Thunder (51‑15) |
Celtics (43‑22) |
8 |
| Grizzlies (23‑41) |
Mavericks (21‑44) |
6 |