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Playoff road often unkind to Hawks (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Dwyane Wade needed only a millisecond to explain how much the home-court edge means in the NBA playoffs. "Easy. It's huge," Wade said. Especially when Atlanta Hawks are visiting, it seems. Few teams are more woebegone on the postseason road than the Hawks, who haven't won a playoff game outside of Atlanta since May 8, 1997 -- so long ago that Wade hadn't played a varsity high school game.