slate.com: Good C's article on homecourt advantage

[Gant]

Personally I recoil from all the non-basketball crap: celebrities, mascots, T shirt guns, cheerleaders, in-game entertainment, non-organ produced music, pyrotechnics, and anything else introduced to an arena after approximately 1958.

It makes money? Good for someone. All I want is basketball. Everything else is a distraction.

Nice long article here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2191488/pagenum/all/#page_start

[Athanacropolis]

Great read Gant, thanks for the link! I've often wondered about why teams play better at home, and this author gave a pretty interesting breakdown about the various theories.

Still, when it comes to KG, it's all about the crowd!

[Datruth345]

anyone notice the celtics don't play music when the actual game is going on like every other arena does

i dont understand how david stern let that crap started...how can you play music as the game is in progress?!?!?!

it irks me to no end