15 victories for 35 defeats. This is the result since the resumption of the Eastern teams when they meet Western teams. That’s a very low success rate of 30%…
Historically, it is even the lowest rate in history, even if it obviously has time to rise again.
The winning percentage of Eastern teams against Western teams
We know that the East was overall the strongest conference until the shift at the end of the 1990s. Since then? Western franchises dominated those of the East in the regular season 23 out of 26 seasons!
In detail, we see that only the Pelicans have a negative record against Eastern teams since the start of the season. While the Raptors are already seven defeats in eight games against Western teams.
Note that the Blazers are the only team that has yet to face a team from the opposite conference.
