Kicker: Home court advantage

NICK EICHER, HOST: This NBA season the LA Clippers unveiled a new secret weapon, if you can call 45-hundred screaming fans a “secret.”

It’s called “The Wall” and it’s reserved for the kind of fans who make soccer hooligans look tame.

The Wall is behind the basket and the fans are instructed to stay on their feet the whole game. It’s not called “the stands” for nothing, one sign reads.

They really make a difference at the free-throw line.

AUDIO: It’s definitely a different look than anything you’re going to see in an NBA arena of what that end looks like and clearly ? teams are going to be shooting into that over the second half.

Clippers owner Steve Balmer admits the purpose of The Wall is to make opponents miserable. And it’s working.

Statisticians found that opponents’ shooting percentage at the charity stripe drops dramatically when the lunatics of The Wall get their game on. Clippers opponents just tossing brick after brick.

All in all, it’s just another brick in The Wall.

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