List of NBA Teams & Arenas

We love basketball here at GeoJango Maps. That's why we decided to create a NBA Teams Map to showcase the locations of every NBA team and their respective arenas. You can use this Basketball Map to keep track of which arenas you've visited or which ones you would like to visit in the future.

It also makes a great gift for basketball fans who can use this NBA Map to decorate any wall in their home or office!

As a special thank you for visiting our website, we're offering a discount code for 5% off any Sports Map Poster! Just enter the code "SPORTSPOSTER" during checkout to receive your special discount.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) was established in 1946 and it quickly grew into one of the biggest sports organizations in the entire world.

How many NBA teams are there?

Today there are 30 NBA teams that are split into the Eastern and Western Conferences, which are further split into 3 divisions of 5 teams each.

Each NBA team plays 82 games every regular season. This is true even after the recent implementation of the In-Season Tournament for the NBA Cup. *See below for information regarding the NBA's play-in tournament, playoffs, and the In-Season Tournament (NBA Cup). 

With so many teams and stadium names to remember, we decided to put together this helpful list of NBA teams and arenas. You can use this list of NBA teams to help you track which stadiums you've visited or to learn more about each NBA team and their specific arena.

• Atlanta Hawks (State Farm Arena)
• Boston Celtics (TD Garden)
• Brooklyn Nets (Barclays Center)
• Charlotte Hornets (Spectrum Center)
• Chicago Bulls (United Center)
• Cleveland Cavaliers (Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse)
• Detroit Pistons (Little Caesars Arena)
• Indiana Pacers (Bankers Life Fieldhouse)
• Miami Heat (American Airlines Arena)
• Milwaukee Bucks (Fiserv Forum)
• New York Knicks (Madison Square Garden)
• Orlando Magic (Amway Center)
• Philadelphia 76ers (Wells Fargo Center)
• Toronto Raptors (Scotiabank Arena)
• Washington Wizards (Capital One Arena)

• Dallas Mavericks (American Airlines Center)
• Denver Nuggets (Pepsi Center)
• Golden State Warriors (Chase Center)
• Houston Rockets (Toyota Center)
• Los Angeles Clippers (Staples Center)
• Los Angeles Lakers (Staples Center)
• Memphis Grizzlies (FedExForum)
• Minnesota Timberwolves (Target Center)
• New Orleans Pelicans (Smoothie King Center)
• Oklahoma City Thunder (Chesapeake Energy Arena)
• Phoenix Suns (Talking Stick Resort Arena)
• Portland Trail Blazers (Moda Center)
• Sacramento Kings (Golden 1 Center)
• San Antonio Spurs (AT&T Center)
• Utah Jazz (Vivint Smart Home Arena)

GeoJango NBA Basketball Stadium Map

• California contains the most NBA teams (4) out of any state.
• Madison Square Garden is the only arena that is not named after a corporation.
• Crypto.com Arena is the only NBA arena shared by two teams (the Lakers and Clippers).
• The Golden State Warriors are the only team whose name does not include a specific borough, city, or a state.
• The Toronto Raptors are the only team in the NBA that does not reside within the United States. However, the Raptors played home games at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida during the 2020-21 season.
• There are 28 U.S. states that do not have an NBA team and 4 states that have more than one NBA team (New York, Texas, California, and Florida).
• San Francisco's Chase Center is the newest stadium in the league (2019) whereas New York City's Madison Square Garden is the oldest (1968).
• Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center is the largest arena in the NBA with a seating capacity of 21,000. Atlanta's State Farm Arena is the smallest arena with a seating capacity of 16,600.
• The 2019-20 NBA season was the longest in NBA history, lasting 355 days from opening day to the last game of the Finals, due to the interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The offseason between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 NBA seasons was the shortest offseason for any major league sport in history, for the same reason, at only 72 days.  

The NBA Play-In tournament was first introduced at the end of the shortened 2019-20 season while teams were competing in the Orlando bubble. This new format would give more teams an opportunity to compete for the last playoffs spots for each conference.

The original format involved the eight and ninth seeds of each conference playing a best-of-two series. The eighth seed would need to win only the first game and the ninth seed would need to win both games to take the final playoff spot - the eighth seed in each conference.

The Play-In tournament is still in use for the 2023-24 season, but the format changed slightly in 2021. While some basketball analysts seemed to have trouble explaining the rules, it's quite simple:

• In each conference, the seventh seed hosts the eighth for one game. The winners take the seventh seeds in the playoffs.
• The ninth seed hosts the tenth, for a chance to play the loser of the game between the seventh and eighth seeds. The winners of those games take the last seeds (eighth) in the playoff.

Note: The seventh and eighth seeds only need to win one out of two games to retain a spot in the playoffs. The ninth and tenth seeds need to win two games in a row in order to reach the playoffs. The rest of the postseason proceeds as normal.

Below are the results from the 2020 inaugural Play-In tournament:

• Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies to take the eighth seed in the West
• Orlando Magic took the eighth seed in the East with no contest, as they had a greater than seven game advantage over the the ninth seed Washington Wizards

Below are the results from the first Play-In tournament under the new format (2021):

• Boston Celtics defeated the Washington Wizards to take the 7th seed in the East
• Washington Wizards defeated the Indiana Pacers to take the 8th seed in the East
• Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Golden State Warriors to take the 7th seed in the West
• Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Golden State Warriors to take the 8th seed in the West

The NBA Cup tournament was first introduced during the 2023-24 season as the NBA In-Season Tournament. It was intended to compete with the overlapping NFL regular season in the months of November and December. Every game played in the tournament, aside from the championship game, counts towards a team's regular season record.

The NBA Cup tournament will be played in November every season, and it follows a format that will be familiar to WNBA or international soccer fans:

• The two conferences are split into three groups of five, which are different from the permanent divisions.
  • These groups are determined by each team's previous season win-loss record. The top three teams in the conference will be randomly placed one in each of the three groups, the teams in positions 4-6 will do the same, as will teams 7-9, and so on until all six groups have five teams.
• All teams will play every other team in their group Round Robin style - two games at home and two away for a total of four games for each team.
• The teams at the top of each group and two Wild Cards (one remaining second-place team from each conference with the best group record) advance to the single-elimination tournament. After the eight teams play for four semifinal spots, those four play for a spot in the championship, where they will hope to win the NBA Cup and a cash prize pool.

Note: To adjust for the regular season game totals, the 22 teams who do not advance beyond the group stage will two additional games against other teams that also did not advance, one at home and one away. The four teams who lose in the first round of the tournament will play one additional game against the other team from their own conference who also lost in the first round.

Below are the results from the 2023-24 inaugural In-Season Tournament:

• Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Phoenix Suns to advance to the West Semifinals
• New Orleans Pelicans defeated the Sacramento Kings to advance to the West Semifinals
• Milwaukee Bucks defeated the New York Knicks to advance to the East Semifinals
• Indiana Pacers defeated the Boston Celtics to advance to the East Semifinals
• Indiana Pacers defeated the Milwaukee Bucks to advance to the Championship game
• Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New Orleans Pelicans to advance to the Championship game
• Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Indiana Pacers to win the first NBA Cup in 2023

LeBron James was named the inaugural MVP of the 2023 NBA Cup Champion LA Lakers.

We love basketball here at GeoJango Maps. That's why we decided to create a NBA Teams Map to showcase the locations of every NBA team and their respective arenas. You can use this Basketball Map to keep track of which arenas you've visited or which ones you would like to visit in the future.

It also makes a great gift for basketball fans who can use this NBA Map to decorate any wall in their home or office!

As a special thank you for visiting our website, we're offering a discount code for 5% off any Sports Map Poster! Just enter the code "SPORTSPOSTER" during checkout to receive your special discount.

Helpful Links:

NBA Website

NBA YouTube Channel