#8: NBA Western Conference Preview
Necessary Roughness Ep. 8: Full NBA Western Conference Preview
Welcome back to Necessary Roughness—your daily dose of raw sports takes riffing straight off the Twitter feed.
In this episode, we break down all 15 teams in the NBA's Western Conference heading into 2026-27. We go division by division through last season's results, the offseason moves that reshaped the conference, the draft picks that matter, and the questions every team still has to answer. A champion dethroned, a franchise player on the move almost everywhere you look, star guards in new uniforms, and a top two that the rest of…
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