2026 NBA Western Conference Betting - Basketball Lines

2026 NBA Western Conference Betting Online

It should come as no surprise that the 2025 NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder is the prohibitive favorite to take the 2026 Western Conference and NBA championships. Oklahoma City dominated the regular season, offering gamblers supreme value and profits. Now the question is whether the Thunder can maintain their wagering value at the same level in the upcoming season. It will be a difficult challenge for the Thunder, who now command the full attention of the gambling public, including the casual sector that previously ignored them. The rest of the NBA is certainly taking notice of the Thunder, who are coming off a strong offseason in which they secured their future with max-out extensions for their core players, led by superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. At the onset of the season the Thunder have the best team on paper in the Association.

The arrival of Kevin Durant and Clint Capela has gamblers taking a closer look at the rapidly improving Houston Rockets, who won 50 games last season to secure a playoff spot. Another team that had a strong offseason was the Denver Nuggets, who have suffered from an NBA championship hangover the past two seasons. Nikola Jokic is the best player in the Association, and Denver doesn’t want to waste a championship window while Jokic remains in his prime.

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Western Conference Winners (2000)

Since Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls for a second time, the Western Conference has been the dominant conference. Teams from the West are 17-8 in the last 25 NBA Finals, and that should speak to overall dominance in the conference. However, three teams have been responsible for nearly all of that success (Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Golden State).

Conference Finals Results By Team

It’s incredible to see the difference in the success that the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers have had in comparison to every other team in the Western Conference. The Lakers have won the Western Conference a whopping 32 times, and they have made numerous runs thanks to some of the biggest stars in the game. George Mikan, Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kobe Bryant all had a ton of success with this franchise.

The Golden State Warriors are a distant second in terms of most successful teams in Western Conference history. They are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA, having been part of the BAA as the Philadelphia Warriors, and they made it to the NBA Finals three times before relocating to the West Coast. Golden State won the Western Conference six times in eight years, including five titles in a row, and the Warriors claimed four NBA titles in that stretch. That has made them an undisputed dynasty under Steph Curry.

Obviously, there are some unusual teams listed as "Western Conference champions." The Atlanta Hawks have always played in the Eastern Conference, but the team that preceded them, the St. Louis Hawks, won four Western Conference titles. The Milwaukee Bucks used to be in the West, while the Detroit Pistons were in the West when they were known as the Fort Wayne Pistons.

Four of the five franchises that have never taken part in an NBA Finals are in the Western Conference. Memphis, Minnesota, New Orleans, and the Los Angeles Clippers have never won the West, and Sacramento’s only conference title came back in 1951 when the Kings were known as the Rochester Royals.

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