Wembanyama was named Player of the Week for the Western Conference after an awe-inspiring start to the season. These are the stat lines that helped him win it.

Bleacher Report’s Greg Swartz doesn’t think so, which is why the bold NBA writer predicted that Los Angeles would trade James to a surging Western Conference contender before the deadline.

If many of these teams were in the East, their trajectories would be different. But the West is a competitive conference every night.

After the first week of NBA basketball to kick off a brand new season, the reigning champions are still unbeaten. It hasn’t been easy, though, and Oklahoma City

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The West is loaded with quality, and several teams could end up in the conference finals. But it's truly a one-horse race.

A third-place finish seems reasonable for Houston, but they'll definitely have to get more out of Sheppard and Eason. This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/rockets as CBS Sports Tabs Rockets as Third-Best Team in Western Conference.

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