Central Division (NBA) – Seher Elhayat

The Central Division is among the 3 Branches in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The division includes five teams, the Chicago Bulls, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Detroit Pistons, the Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks. All teams, except the Cavaliers, are former Midwest Division teams, therefore the Central Division now mostly resembling the Midwest Division in the 1970s.
The division Was Made at the start of the 1970–71 season, when the league expanded from 14 to 17 teams with the inclusion of the Buffalo Braves, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Portland Trail Blazers. The team realigned itself into two conferences, the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference, with two branches each in every conference. The Central Division started with four inaugural members, the Atlanta Hawks, the Baltimore Bullets, the Cincinnati Royals and the Cleveland Cavaliers. [1] The Hawks joined in the Western Section, although the Bullets and the Royals united from the Eastern Division.
The Pistons have won the most Central Division titles with nine. The Bulls have won the second most titles . Eleven NBA champions came from the Central Division. The Bulls won six championships, the Pistons won three championships as well as also the Bullets and Cavs won one championship each. All of these, except the 1977–78 Bullets and the 2003–04 Pistons, were division winners. From the 2005–06 season, all five teams from the branch qualified for the playoffs. The branch winner is your Cleveland Cavaliers. The Central Division has the many teams which have won an championship, with four out of five teams winning the championship, along with the Pacers the sole franchise never to have won.
The Central Division existed for one season from the 1949–50 year among the 3 divisions in the NBA, along with the Western and the Eastern Division. On the other hand, the current Central Division which was shaped at the 1970, is one of the 3 divisions in the Eastern Conference, the successor of the Eastern Division.