Southeast Division

Miami Heat

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Home City: Miami, Florida

Main Arena: American Airlines Arena

Capacity: 16,500

Joined NBA: 1988

Current Head Coach: Stan Van Gundy

Current Head Coach: Stan Van Gundy

Current Head Coach: Stan Van Gundy

Capacity: 16,500

Joined the NBA: 1988

Current Head Coach: Stan Van Gundy

Washington Wizards

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Home City: Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.

Capacity: 20,173

Joined the NBA: 1961

Current Head Coach: Eddie J

Orlando Magic

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Washington Wizards Team English official/wizards/

Home City: Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.

Home City: Washington, D.C.

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Home city: Orlando, Florida

Main arena: TD Waterhouse

Centre

Capacity: 17,283

Joined the NBA: 1989

Current head coach: Brian Hill (Brian J. Hill) -Brian Hill

Charlotte Bobcats

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Home City: Charlotte, North Carolina

Home Arena: Still under construction (completed in 2005)

Capacity:

Joined the NBA: 2004

Current Head Coach: Bernie Bickerstaff

Atlanta Hawks

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Home City: Atlanta, Georgia

Home Arena: Phillipines

Home Arena: Phillipines

Home Arena: Phillipines

Home Arena: Phillipines

Home Arena: Phillipines, Georgia

Main Arena: Philips Arena

Capacity: 19,445

Joined the NBA: 1949

Current Head Coach: Mike Woodson

Northwest Division

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Seattle Supersonics

Seattle Supersonics Team English/sonics/

Home city: Seattle, Washington

Main arena: KEY Arena (KEY Arena)

Capacity: 17,072

Joined the NBA: 1967

Current head coach : Bob Weiss

Denver Nuggets

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Home City:Denver, Colorado

Main Arena:Pepsi Center Arena

Capacity: 19,099

Joined the NBA: 1976

Current head coach: George Karl

Minnesota Timberwolves

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City of home: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Main Arena: Target Center

Capacity: 19,006

Joined the NBA: 1949

Current Head Coach: Dwane Casey

Portland Trail Blazers

Home city: Portland, Oregon

Main arena: The Rose Garden

Capacity: 19,980

Joined the NBA: 1970

Current Head Coach: Kevin Pritchard

Utah Jazz

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Home City: Salt Lake City, Utah

Main Arena: Delta Center

Capacity: 19,911

Capacity: 1,911

Capacity: 1,980

Capacity: 1,911

Capacity: 1,980

Capacity: 1,980

Time in NBA: 1970

Joined the NBA: 1974

Current Head Coach: Jerry Sloan

Phoenix Suns

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Home City: Phoenix, AZ

Main Arena: America West Arena

Capacity: 18,422

Joined the NBA: 1968

Current Head Coach: Mike D\'Antoni

Sacramento Kings

Sacramento Kings

Home City: Sacramento, California

Main Arena: ARCO Arena

Capacity: 17,317

Joined NBA: 1948

Current Head Coach: Rick Antoni (Mike D\'Antoni )

Los Angeles Clippers

L.A. Clippers Team English Officials/clippers/

Home City: Los Angeles, California

Main Arena: Staples Center

Capacity: 17,317

Joined NBA: 1948

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Capacity: 19,060

Joined the NBA: 1970

Current Head Coach: Mike Dunleavy Sr. p>Home city: Oakland, California

Main arena: the Arena in Oakland

Capacity: 19,596

Joined the NBA: 1946

Current head coach: Mike Montgomery

Los Angeles Lakers

L.A. Lakers Team English official/lakers/

Home city: Los Angeles, California

Main arena: Staples Center

Capacity: 18,997

Join the NBA: 1948

Join the NBA: 1946

Current head coach: Mike Montgomery NBA: 1948

Current head coach: Phil Jackson

Southwest Division

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San Antonio Spurs

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Home city: San Antonio, Texas

Main Arena: SBC Center

Capacity: 18,797

Joined the NBA: 1976

Current Head Coach: Gregg Popovich

Dallas Mavericks

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Home City: Dallas, Texas

Main Arena: American Airlines

Center

Capacity: 19,200

Joined the NBA Time: 1980

Current Head Coach: Avery Johnson

Houston Rockets

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Home City: Houston, Texas

Main Arena: Toyota Center Toyota Center

Capacity: 18,500

Joined NBA: 1967

Head Coach: Jeff Van Gundy

Memphis Grizzlies

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Home city: Memphis, Tennessee

Main arena: The Pyramid

Capacity: 19,351

Joined NBA: 1995

Current head coach: Mike Fratello

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New Orleans Hornets

New Orleans Hornets Team English official/hornets/

Home city: New Orleans, Louisiana

Main arena: New Orleans Arena

Capacity. Capacity: 17,200

Join the NBA: 1988

Current Head Coach: Byron Scott

The origins of the names of the NBA's various pairs of balls:

Western Conference:

1. Phoenix Suns: The team was built in 1968 and Phoenix is the Phoenix is the capital of Arizona, located in the desert on the west coast of the United States, the annual precipitation is scarce, full of sunshine, with the "sun" as the team name has the most representative meaning. Sonic Underwater Navigation System sonar underwater navigation system

2, San Antonio Spurs ( San Antonio Spurs (San Antonio Spurs): one of the NBA's founding teams, the earliest team's home base in Dallas, the team named "Dallas Oaks", renamed "Texas Oaks" in 1970, and changed its name to "San Antonio" after moving to San Antonio in 1973. In 1973, the team moved to San Antonio and changed its name to the Spurs. "Spurs" is a horseback rider nailed to the heel of the shoe of a kind of iron spurs horse needles, as the team name, can reflect the era of development of the western United States. Space Power Unit Reactor cosmic flight power unit reactor

3, Seattle Supersonic (Seattle) Seattle Supersonics: The team was born in Seattle, home to the headquarters of Boeing, the world's largest airplane manufacturer. 1967, when the team was founded, Boeing was developing and manufacturing supersonic airliners, and the team, which was founded with the help of Boeing, chose the name "Supersonics".

4, Dallas Mavericks (Dallas Mavericks): In March 1980, the team owners in the collection of about 4,600 names, selected "Mavericks" for the team's name.

5, Sacramento Kings (Sacramento Kings): the team's name change is too much for the rest of the NBA team, was founded as the "Rochester Royals", renamed the "Cincinnati Royals" in 1957, and then changed to "Cincinnati Royals" in 1972, and then changed to "Cincinnati Royals" in 1972, and then changed to "Cincinnati Royals" in 1972.

6, Houston Rockets (Houston Rockets): the team's earliest was in San Diego, where the munitions industry was prevalent, and after moving to Houston, where the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was located in 1961, the name "Rockets" became more authentic. national Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration

7, Memphis Grizzlies (Memphis Grizzlies): The Grizzlies were born in 1995 as part of the NBA's overseas expansion program, with their home court located in Vancouver, Canada, and with the western Canada very much in mind. In 2001, the Grizzlies moved back to Memphis, Tennessee and changed their name to the Memphis Grizzlies.

8, Los Angeles Lakers (L.A. Lakers): 1948 to join the NBA, the Lakers are still in Minnesota Apolis, but a plane crash, so that the Lakers bosses determined to move to Los Angeles in 1960. The team's name was also a solicited name, to the effect that people who work or live on the Great Lakes in the northeastern United States.

9, Minnesota Timberwolves (Minnesota Timberwolves): 1989 to join the NBA, named after the Minnesota area number of a fierce wildlife "Timberwolves".

10, Denver Nuggets (Denver Nuggets): formerly known as the "Denver Rockets", is one of the founding teams of the ABA. 1974 after joining the NBA was renamed the "Golden Nuggets", because in the 19th century, when the United States of America on the development of the West. The team was named the Golden Nuggets after the discovery of gold in Denver during the 19th Century's Great American Expansion of the West.

11, Los Angeles Clippers (L.A. Clippers): established in 1970 in Buffalo (buffalo Buffalo), the team named "Buffalo Braves". 1978 moved to San Diego, renamed "San Diego Clippers", and in 1980, the team was renamed "San Diego Clippers". "In 1978, the team moved to San Diego and changed its name to the San Diego Boatmen, before moving to Los Angeles in 1980.

12, Portland Trail Blazers (Portland Trail Blazers): Founded in 1970, Portland was the center of the western development, so the "Trail Blazers" to the team's name can reflect the characteristics of that era.

13, Utah Jazz (Utah Jazz): founded in 1974, when the home court in New Orleans, the team name "New Orleans Jazz". 1980 moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, after the team is still used "Jazz" The name is still used after the team moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1980.

14, Golden State Warriors (Golden State Warriors): born in Philadelphia in 1946, the team named "Philadelphia Samurai", is to express the sacrifice of the American Revolutionary War warriors a kind of respect. 1962 moved to San Francisco changed to the "Golden State Warriors". "The team was named the Philadelphia Warriors in honor of the fallen warriors of the American War of Independence.

15, New Orleans Hornets (New Orleans Hornets): formed in 1988 in Charlotte and entered the NBA, the team's logo is a fierce Ban Hoehoe Bee, is the work of the community collection, in addition to the city of Charlotte's coat of arms on the bee's design. 2002 Hornets by the city of Charlotte moved to New Orleans.

Eastern Conference:

1, Miami Heat (Miami Heat): Formed in 1988, the team is located in the four seasons of the warm and pleasant Miami, Florida, so in the list of many team name after the selection of the list of selected "hot", not only presently demonstrated the climatic conditions of Miami, but also hope that the team can have a red-hot, steamy, and the team will have a good time. The team's name is "Hot" in the list of names that were chosen to reflect Miami's weather conditions and the hope that the team will have a red-hot, prosperous future.

2, Detroit Pistons (Detroit Pistons): 1948 to join the NBA headquarters in Ford Wynn, the owner is engaged in the piston manufacturing industry, "Piston" became the team's team name. 1957, the team moved to the Motor City, Detroit, is still using the name.

3, Boston Celtics (Boston Celtics): In 1946, 11 hockey owners discussed the formation of a new basketball league, so the BAA was born, the Celtics was one of the original 11 teams. Because there were many Irish immigrants in Boston, many of whom were Celtics, the team's name was "The Original Celtics," which was later shortened to "The Celtics," when the team was first formed.

4, Cleveland Cavaliers (Cleveland Cavaliers): 1970 into the league, Cleveland in the newly established professional basketball team to name the team, in the local vote, the results of the 6,000 votes in more than one-third of the votes were selected "Cavaliers".

5, Washington Wizards (Washington Wizards): 1961 to join the NBA, the team's home base is still in Baltimore when the team named "Bullets", because Baltimore's munitions industry is very developed. The team moved to Washington, D.C., and continued to use the name "Bullets" because the name "Bullets" has a tendency to violence, until the 1997-1998 season was changed to the "Wizards "It was not until the 1997-1998 season that the name was changed to the Wizards, or as some people call them, the Wizards.

6, Orlando Magic (Orlando Magic): Magic is one of the NBA's newest troops, joined the NBA in 1989, because Disney World is one of Orlando's major recreational and entertainment venues and "Come to the magic" (Come to play magic) is Orlando's favorite phrase. The Magic were also named after a favorite phrase of Orlandoans, "Come to the magic".

7, Chicago Bulls (Chicago Bulls): 1966 to join the NBA, because of the Flyer Michael Jordan's original, the Chicago Bulls is absolutely in the world has the highest visibility of the NBA team. Chicago's livestock industry is very developed, the city's professional football and professional baseball teams each have a team named after an animal, so "Bulls" became the name of the Chicago professional basketball team.

8, Philadelphia 76ers (Philadelphia 76ers): as a veteran team in the NBA, at the beginning of the construction of the team, the Philadelphia 76ers at that time, neither the home stadium is located in Philadelphia, and did not take the name of the 76ers, but a very patriotic meaning of the name - Syracuse Nationals (Syracuse). The Syracuse Nation, formed in 1937, joined the NBA in 1949 with the merger of the NBL (National Basketball League) and the ABB (American Basketball Association), and moved to Philadelphia in 1963 as the "76ers" because Philadelphia was the site of the 1776 declaration of independence from the United States. Philadelphia, where the United States declared its independence in 1776.

9, Indiana Pacers (Indiana Pacers): also known as the Indiana Slippers. 1976 to join the NBA, the Pacers English name is "Pacers", pronounced "Pace car" very similar, and "Pace car". "The Pacers' English name is "Pacers", which sounds very similar to "Pace car", which is the pilot car that drives in front of the Indy 500 (one of the world's most famous racing events, on par with Formula One), and whose popularity does not match that of the famous race car. The team was named after the Pacers in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the Indy 500.

10, New Jersey Nets (New Jersey Nets): the Nets joined the NBA in 1976, "net" means "basketball net", is one of the indispensable elements of basketball. The reason why the Nets took this name, on the one hand, in order to climb a little relationship with basketball, on the other hand, because as early as before the establishment of the New Jersey Nets, New York has a baseball team METS and football team JETS, at that time, these two teams have been fully fledged, the Nets took up the two team's harmonic NETS, in fact, would like to dip into the light of it.

11, Milwaukee Bucks (Milwaukee Bucks): 1968 to join the NBA, and many do not know what animal name to the team named the team, Milwaukee in their own team name had been indecisive, and finally in including the "skunk (Skunk)", In the end, in the skunk (Skunk), "beaver (Beaver)" and a lot of other animal names, choose the good jumping, and is Milwaukee around the wild "Bucks" for the team's name.

12, New York Knicks (New York Knicks): joined the NBA time in 1946, the correct statement is the "lantern pants team", because there are a large number of Dutch immigrants in New York, the Dutch favorite to wear loose fat lantern pants, and "Knicks The term "Nixies" is just a translation of the word "baggy pants".

13, Toronto Raptors (Toronto Raptors): Raptors was born in 1995, as part of the NBA's overseas expansion program, the home of the Canadian city of Toronto, the team name is also collected, and finally selected the fierce, fast, high jumping "dragon".

14, Charlotte Bobcats (Charlotte Bobcats): "Bobcats", the wildlife in the mountains of North Carolina, it is alert, good at catching prey, with all the habits of felines. The Bobcats joined the NBA in 2004.

15, Atlanta Hawks (Atlanta Hawks): initially named "Tri-City Blackhawks", is borrowed from the chief "Blackhawks". 1951 moved to Milwaukee and changed its name to "Black Hawks". Milwaukee in 1951 and renamed "Hawks". 1955 moved to St. Louis, 1968 moved to Atlanta has been using the name "Hawks". They joined the NBA in 1949.