A couple of seasons ago, the Sixers played a pre-season “home” game 263 miles outside of Philadelphia at UMass Amherst. Thursday, they’ll beat that distance 13 times over in the NBA London Game. The fans are losing a home game, and the team is losing the atmosphere of the Wells Fargo Center, which can feel like the most hostile building in the NBA at times, but is that actually the case? Nope.
By most discernible measures - no matter how much it feels like it in the building and how much Brett Brown, JJ Redick, and Joel Embiid talk about it - the Sixers play the same on the road as they do at home.