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The Western Conference wasn’t quite as deep as we thought it might be at the start of last season, but it still won 55% of its games against the East, its third-best mark in the last 10 years. The West was clearly the better conference.

The Oklahoma City Thunder won the West by 16 games before winning their first title as the youngest champions in the last 48 years.

Was that the start of a dynasty? The Thunder are surely the favorites to win again in 2025-26, but their run through the playoffs wasn’t nearly as dominant as their regular season, and the West seems to have gotten better this summer. The second-place Houston Rockets added Kevin Durant , the third-place Los Angeles Laker

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