Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
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Fact or Fiction: Home-court advantage is dead
The NBA's home team won 60% of its regular-season games from 2000-13, clear evidence of home-court advantage. That number dipped to 58% for the first time this century in 2014, as teams for the first time averaged more than 20 3-point attempts per game, and it held steady around that figure until the end of last decade, when the COVID-19 pandemic uncovered a new understanding of home-court advantage.