When a team steals home court in the NBA playoffs, what is the resulting schedule?

The NBA playoff rounds (with the exception of the finals) are formatted like so:


2 - 2 - 1 - 1 -1


With the the dashes separating the home games of each teams. But say the visiting team wins the first game. They are said to have stolen home court advantage. How does the schedule change?|||What up Jay,





The Schedule does not change when a team: "Steals homecourt advantage."





In a best of 7 series- the team with homecourt advantage before the series starts has 4 of the 7 games at home- so they have an advantage in that they have an extra home game and if every team won their home games they would win the series.





So say a team on the road goes and steals game one. (IE: Rockets to the Lakers). Now there are 6 games left (3 in L.A. and 3 in Houston) but if all goes to form Houston would win the series in game 6 because they "stole a game in L.A."





That's why in a best of 7 the objective of the road team is always to steal at least one game on the road. They do not change the schedule.





Hope that makes sense and is helpful.





Nickster|||The schedual doesnt change at all. There will always be 4 games total for the higher seed (game 1,2,5,7) and there will always be 3 games for the lower seed (game 3,4,6.) If a visiting team but if the visiting team wins the first game they are just up in the series 1-0 and tht means IF they win all their home games they win the series. Still the schedual of who plays where never changes. Its probably just a figure of speech if they STEAL homecourt by getting the first game but it doesnt mean the schedual changes,it simply means they are up 1-0 and now if they win all their homegames they win the series.|||Pikachu.|||it doesnt change the location or schedules at all, its just a figure of speech cause now if they can win at home they can take the series without going back on the road|||becuase theyll have 3 home court games still and they need to win three games and if they win the second away game than u can count the series over