Home-court advantage has long been one of the NBA's most talked-about edges, but not all arenas provide the same boost. Some teams consistently turn their home floor into a genuine advantage, while others see little difference between playing in front of their own fans and on the road.
To separate perception from reality, RotoWire analyzed three seasons of NBA data to determine which teams benefit most from playing at home. By combining home win percentage, scoring differential, and average attendance, this study identifies the arenas that most reliably translate crowd support and familiarity into on-court results.
Using three seasons of data, RotoWire ranks all 30 NBA teams by home-court advantage, factoring in home win percentage, scoring differential, and average attendance to determine which arenas provide the biggest edge.
The result is a data-driven ranking of the NBA's strongest home courts, highlighting which teams have built a sustained edge in their own building and which clubs have struggled to capitalize on home games over the past three seasons. *Data for current season through Dec. 12.
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Methodology:
To determine the NBA's strongest home-court advantages, RotoWire.com created a Home Court Advantage Index using data from the 2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26 seasons (to date).
Each team was evaluated across three metrics:
Home Win Percentage (50%) – Three-year average home winning percentage, measuring how often teams convert home games into wins.
Home Point Differential (30%) – The difference between points scored at home versus on the road, averaged across three seasons to capture how much better teams perform in their own arena.
Average Home Attendance (20%) – Three-year average attendance per home game, representing the impact of crowd size and atmosphere.
Teams were ranked from best to worst in each category. Those rankings were then normalized to a 0–1 scale, weighted according to the percentages above, and combined into a single Home Court Advantage Index score.
In cases where teams finished with identical index scores, ties were broken by higher home win percentage, followed by point differential and average attendance.
Higher scores indicate a stronger and more consistent home-court advantage.
Rank | Team | AVG Home Win % | AVG Point Diff | Avg Attendance | HCA Index Score |
1 | Boston Celtics | 0.751 | 4.10 | 19,156.00 | 0.858 |
2 | Denver Nuggets | 0.680 | 4.33 | 19,768.64 | 0.797 |
3 | Dallas Mavericks | 0.520 | 1.67 | 19,820.43 | 0.729 |
4 | Los Angeles Lakers | 0.708 | 4.97 | 18,834.90 | 0.665 |
5 | Chicago Bulls | 0.491 | -3.03 | 20,304.86 | 0.623 |
6 | Miami Heat | 0.590 | 3.07 | 19,690.74 | 0.613 |
7 | Charlotte Hornets | 0.326 | 1.07 | 17,426.47 | 0.610 |
8 | Brooklyn Nets | 0.316 | 0.33 | 17,450.80 | 0.603 |
9 | Cleveland Cavaliers | 0.688 | -1.07 | 19,403.00 | 0.597 |
10 | Indiana Pacers | 0.581 | 5.80 | 16,624.53 | 0.597 |
11 | Atlanta Hawks | 0.479 | 0.23 | 16,714.18 | 0.587 |
12 | Milwaukee Bucks | 0.632 | 5.87 | 17,371.25 | 0.558 |
13 | New York Knicks | 0.749 | 2.37 | 19,779.95 | 0.552 |
14 | Golden State Warriors | 0.599 | 0.97 | 18,064.00 | 0.548 |
15 | Detroit Pistons | 0.515 | -0.27 | 18,873.53 | 0.548 |
16 | Los Angeles Clippers | 0.547 | 2.07 | 17,680.01 | 0.545 |
17 | Houston Rockets | 0.715 | 1.43 | 17,702.37 | 0.535 |
18 | Oklahoma City Thunder | 0.886 | 3.53 | 17,875.40 | 0.484 |
19 | New Orleans Pelicans | 0.336 | 3.50 | 16,865.90 | 0.448 |
20 | Utah Jazz | 0.406 | 7.33 | 18,189.00 | 0.439 |
21 | Memphis Grizzlies | 0.451 | 1.57 | 16,151.58 | 0.416 |
22 | San Antonio Spurs | 0.537 | 3.37 | 18,188.79 | 0.387 |
23 | Minnesota Timberwolves | 0.670 | -0.87 | 17,934.59 | 0.355 |
24 | Portland Trail Blazers | 0.379 | 1.70 | 17,864.23 | 0.345 |
25 | Orlando Magic | 0.653 | 0.13 | 18,589.22 | 0.335 |
26 | Philadelphia 76ers | 0.468 | -1.10 | 19,522.76 | 0.319 |
27 | Phoenix Suns | 0.621 | 1.23 | 17,071.00 | 0.284 |
28 | Sacramento Kings | 0.458 | 0.50 | 17,014.69 | 0.216 |
29 | Toronto Raptors | 0.450 | -1.73 | 18,932.94 | 0.210 |
30 | Washington Wizards | 0.190 | 1.73 | 16,087.43 | 0.197 |
Which NBA Teams Have the Best Home Court Advantage?
The top team in the NBA when it comes to home court advantage (real or imaginary) has been the Boston Celtics, who have a .751 winning percentage at TD Garden over the last three years, to go with a +4.10 point differential and an average attendance of 19,156 fans per game.
All told, those categories helped propel the C's to the top spot, with an HCA index score of 0.858, ranking well ahead of the second-place Denver Nuggets, who finished with a score of 0.797.
Since the 2021-22 league year, Boston's best season in Beantown was 2023-24, when they went 37-4 (.902) at home, helping propel the team to a 64-18 record overall.
So far this season, Joe Mazzulla's team has gone 8-4 (.667) inside the friendly confines of TD Garden, slightly down from last year's 28-13 (.683) run there, while ranking at the bottom of the team's home court records over the last half-decade, behind 2021-22 and 2024-25.
Denver's story is much the same, with the Nuggets going 6-4 (.600) so far at Ball Arena, which is down significantly from last year's 26-15 (.634) run and well below the 67-15 mark the club posted between 2022-23 and 2023-24.
Who Else Makes the Cut?
The other top teams in the NBA at home included the Dallas Mavericks (0.729 score), Los Angeles Lakers (0.665 score) and the Chicago Bulls (0.623 score), while this year's top home team (the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder, at 12-0) were 18th leaguewide, with a score of 0.484.
The Miami Heat were sixth leaguewide, with an HCA Index Score of 0.613, while the Charlotte Hornets were seventh at 0.610 and the Brooklyn Nets eighth at 0.603, just ahead of the two-way tie between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Indiana Pacers, who had matching 0.597 scores.
The team with the second-best home record this season (the New York Knicks, at 13-1) were 13th overall with an HCA score of 0.552, speaking to the importance of being good on your home court long-term, instead of being a flash in the pan like New York's been of late.
Who Ranked the Lowest?
The anti-Celtics, home court wise, were the lowly Washington Wizards, who had an anemic HCA score of 0.197, ranking behind the Toronto Raptors (0.210 score) and the Sacramento Kings (0.216 score).
Throw in the Phoenix Suns at 0.284 and the Philadelphia 76ers at 0.319 and you have the NBA's home court bottom feeders covered, with each member of that unenviable quintet looking to get back on the right track when the calendar flips over to 2026 in a few week's time.
