The fewest wins in an NBA season is 9 by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers. Their record that year was 9-73.
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1978 Washington Bullets 44-38. Least amount of regular season wins non-strike/non-lockout season.
Each team plays 82 games in a regular season. They play 41 games at home and 41 games away. The amount of games may vary if the team makes it to the playoffs. In order to win an NBA championship, the team must win 16 games, whether it be all at home or away.
During the regular season, each team plays 82 games, 41 each home and away. Since there are 30 teams in the NBA, that is a total of 1,230 games in each season.
In the NBA, teams play 7 or 8 preseason games and 82 regular season games. For a team to win the championship, they would have to win four consecutive best-of-seven playoff rounds which means they would play another 16 to 28 games. So a team that wins the championship in the NBA would play well over 100 games per season which would include preseason, regular season, and playoffs.
The most losses by a team in NBA history was by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers who had a regular season record of 9-73.
Every NBA team plays 41 regular season home games.41