I was just thinking about if Atlanta could make this a 5 game series and I realized that game 5 would be in Atlanta. So if you're a really good team and close out your playoff opponents in 5 games, doesn't it cost you a lot of money because the fifth game is in the opponents arena. It just doesn't seem fair that the losing team gets 3 home gates and you only get two if you close out a series in 5? Is that really a home field/court/ice advantage.
I've always hated the 2-3-2 playoff format that has taken over American sports. It was done in the name of saving travel money, but I think in every way it favors the team that doesn't have home court advantage. I could go on forever about those reasons.
And now that I thought of the financial end of it, it seems if you have a very good team and home court, it hurts at the money making end of things as well.