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

The branch includes five teams, the Chicago Bulls, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Detroit Pistons, the Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks. All teams, except that the Cavaliers, are former Midwest Division teams, therefore the Central Division now largely resembling the Midwest Division in the 1970s.
The branch was created 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 league realigned itself into two conferences, the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference, with two divisions each in each conference. The Central Division began with four inaugural members, the Atlanta Hawks, the Baltimore Bullets, the Cincinnati Royals and the Cleveland Cavaliers. [1] The Hawks joined from the Western Division, although the Bullets and the Royals joined from the Eastern Division.
The Pistons have won the most Central Section titles . The Bulls have won the second most names with eight. Eleven NBA champions came from the Central Division. The Bulls won six championships, the Pistons won three championships and also the Bullets and Cavs won a single championship each. All of them, except that the 1977–78 Bullets and also the 2003–04 Pistons, were division champions. In the 2005–06 season, all five teams from the branch qualified for the playoffs. The division champion is your Cleveland Cavaliers. The Central Division has the many teams which have won an tournament, with four out of five teams winning the tournament, and the Pacers the only franchise to not have won.
The Central Division existed for one season in the 1949–50 year among the three branches in the NBA, along with the Western and the Eastern Division. On the other hand, the current Central Division which was formed in the 1970, is among the three divisions in the Eastern Conference, the successor of the Eastern Division.

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