Miami Heat home court advantage may be better if season resumes
The Miami Heat are one of the best home teams in the NBA, third to be exact, but only slightly. Here’s why that should actually get better once play resumes.
Before play was suspended, the Miami Heat were absolutely one of the better teams at home in the NBA. To be plain, they were one of three teams this season that have practically been almost unbeatable at home.
While they are only bested in this category by the Philadelphia 76ers (29-2) and the Milwaukee Bucks (28-3), there is something quirky there that can act as a saving grace or equalizer betwixt the Miami Heat and those two. The Miami Heat are the only team that has beaten them both in their places. Yes, out of the Bucks’ three home losses and the 76ers’ two home losses, the Miami Heat are responsible for one for each, while they’ve also beaten both in South Beach as well.
The NBA suspension has led us to a thought though based on those facts. Once the season does pick back up, the Miami Heat’s home-court advantage should turn out to be that much greater. Here’s why.
When thinking about teams such as the Miami Heat, the Denver Nuggets, the Portland Trailblazers, and the New Orleans Pelicans, just to name a few, they have built-in advantages. One simple word to describe this advantage, geography.
When thinking about the Denvers and the Portlands, the elevation is a factor. When thinking about the New Orleans’ and specifically here, the Miamis, the humidity is a factor.
Basically, when talking players who have surely gotten out of NBA playing shape by now and even if they are working out every day, these extreme climates should have an immediate adverse effect on them while re-gaining their shape and conditioning.
Secondly and specifically just in the Miami Heat’s case, people already like to talk about their other built-in home-court advantage, the Miami nightlife. Once regular people are able to move about the town again, things are going to be nuts, so you can imagine what it will be like for the uber-rich professional athlete.
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Once everything reopens regularly, things will be pretty crazy everywhere for at least a month or two and this is no different in the NBA or Miami. Once NBA players are moving throughout the country again, they’ll probably be apart of the insanity and that goes double in Miami. These are the reasons why the Miami Heat’s home-court advantage will probably be better once the season resumes.