A common complaint among NBA fans these days is that the Eastern Conference is incredibly weak compared to its Western counterpart. In search of statistical evidence of this alleged weakness, a simple view of the current NBA standings revealed a scary fact: only one Eastern team, the Detroit Pistons, have a winning percentage of 60% or better. This means the Pistons are the only team in the East who are on pace to win more than 49 games. By comparison, the Western conference has six teams who are on pace to do so.
I could not remember the last time either conference failed to yield a team that won at least 50 games, so I did some online research to find out if this has ever happened before. Besides the 1998-99 lockout season, which only featured 50 games in total instead of the standard 82 games, I had to go all the way back to the 1974-75 NBA season to find an example. That season, the best team in the Western Conference, the Golden State Warriors, won a mere 48 games.
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