With neutral sites and no fans, how will “home field advantage” play out?

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Two months ago, the answer to the question of who wins when there are no fans in the stands, would be this: No one.

“What is the word ‘sport’ without ‘fan’?” LeBron James asked at the end of March, on the podcast of former teammates Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye. “There’s no excitement. There’s no crying. There’s no joy. There’s no back-and-forth.”