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NBA 2026-27 · Regular season · Meeting 1 of the season

What does Nets vs Mavericks change in the NBA playoff race?

Nets

Brooklyn Nets

1-5

7:30 PM ET

Scheduled

Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

4-2

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET (Nov 9, 09:30 KST)American Airlines Center, Dallas

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What's at stake

Current standings (93 games played league-wide) plus this one result, recomputed for all 30 teams in both conferences. Arithmetic, not odds. Interconference game: each result moves one team in each conference.

Nets win

Mavericks win

  • NetsEast #13→#15Tragic 75→74
  • MavericksWest #7→#5play-in (7–10)→top 6Magic 76→75
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Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
NetsEast #13 · 1-5-75-
MavericksWest #7 · 4-276--

Magic number = wins left to lock a top-10 (play-in) finish (top-6 magic: a direct berth); tragic number = losses left until elimination. Ties count against the team. How we calculate →

Season series

Meeting 1 of 2 this season

Nets 0Mavericks 0

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Nets

  • Tyler BilodeauOut
  • Egor DeminOut
  • Joshua JeffersonOut
  • Grant NelsonOut
  • Ben SarafOut

Mavericks

  • Santi AldamaOut
  • Dereck Lively IIOut
  • Tarik BiberovicOut
  • Sergio De LarreaOut
  • Kyrie IrvingOut
  • Caleb MartinAvailable

BALLDONTLIE injury report (status only). It can change before tip-off.

Game data: BALLDONTLIE. Magic and tragic numbers are computed by this site.