Road Warriors: Understand the success of the Road team in this year's playoffs

Road teams have an unusually strong run in the playoffs this year. It seems that the concept of the “home advantage” is disappearing or at least has been put under the microscope so far. In the second round of the post -season, teams performed chaos, especially in the second round of the off -season.

Perhaps the strongest example of this newly discovered reality is that all four road teams have won the 1-game semi-final of the conference for the first time since the NBA in a playoff format from 16 teams from 1984 to 1985. Denver displaced Oklahoma City 121-119 on Aaron Gordon's last second 3, New York deleted a 20-point deficit against Boston 108-105 and Golden State controlled Minnesota in a 99-88 victory. Every game offered a different action, but together they wrote history after the season.

The dominance of the street teams does not stop here. Road teams won the first six games of the conference semi-final until the series ended when the Thunder came out the series against the Nuggets with a 149-106 victory in game 2 in the Paycom Center. In addition, the street teams are currently 10-4 before the Doubleheader is alone in the second round on Monday and has been 28-29 since the beginning of the off-season. If that sounds a lot – well, it is.

The 28 -road victories in the NBA playoffs 2025 have only counted the first and second rounds that have put the total amount of the last three seasons in the shadow: 27 in 2024, 24 in 2023 and 26 in 2022. This year's semi -finals are still continuous, which means that there is a lot of runway for street teams.

The way the semi -finals of the conference is designed opens up the possibility that teams are progressing with lower seeds. The only series in which the team with the higher seeds currently runs through the conference final is the one in which the Timberwolves rose 2-1 against the warriors, but this is a struggle between the sixth and the seventh seed in the west.

The coming week will of course draw a clearer picture before the conference final. But the way in which teams played on the street means that the rest of the conference is completely unpredictable. The fans can sit back and enjoy the chaos, since the concept of the home court advantage is apparently undermined at night.