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Last season, the Utah Jazz won the Northwest Division. This should not come as a surprise to anyone: at 52-20, the Jazz finished with the best record in the entire NBA. That’s a pretty foolproof recipe for winning your division.
With the 2021 offseason nearly in the league’s rearview mirror, it’s an appropriate time to look at how the Association is shaping up and make educated guesses about how each division will look by the end of the 2021-22 season. Of course, a great deal is still subject to change.