Home Teams ATS Record in NBA Playoffs Is Unreal So Far
By Reed Wallach
The first weekend of the 2024 NBA Playoffs followed a particular theme: home teams rolled.
Following eight Game 1's between Saturday and Sunday, home teams won each game and covered in seven of eight matchups. The only home team not to cover was the Oklahoma City Thunder, who couldn't win with margin against the Pelicans on Sunday night.
Here's the numbers from the first weekend in the NBA Playoffs, which was all about the home teams.
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Home Teams Dominate Game 1 in 2024 NBA Playoffs
In eight postseason games across a 48 hour period, home teams won each game, with six of the eight games resulting in double digit victories, seven being covers.
Not all matchups were projected to be blowouts, the likes of the Clippers and Bucks won by double digits despite being home underdogs amidst injury questions to each team's respective best player in Kawhi Leonard and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
What does this mean? A coincidence? Probably, but could this be a big year for home court? We'll see as Game 2 gets started on Monday with three games, but the most staggering stat to follow has been road team's poor shooting through Game 1 across the postseason.
I think we're going to see the same parity continue......right now road teams just can't make anything.
— Raheem Palmer (@iamrahstradamus) April 22, 2024
Including this Pacers-Bucks game, road teams are shooting 78-of-291 (26%) from 3 since Friday night's play-in games. https://t.co/He0F647jMc
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