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

What does Heat vs Kings change in the NBA playoff race?

Heat

Miami Heat

2-4

9:00 PM ET

Scheduled

Kings

Sacramento Kings

0-6

Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 9:00 PM ET (Nov 9, 11:00 KST)Golden 1 Center, Sacramento

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.

Heat win

Kings win

  • HeatEast #10→#11play-in (7–10)→outside the top 10Tragic 76→75
10 more teams

Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
HeatEast #10 · 2-4-76-
KingsWest #15 · 0-6-73-

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

Heat 0Kings 0

Before this game

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Sun, Nov 8 game · Sacramento

Local date

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Heat

  • Tre DonaldsonAvailable
  • Vladislav GoldinAvailable
  • Tim Hardaway Jr.Available

Kings

  • Dylan CardwellOut
  • Maxime RaynaudOut
  • Ben SimmonsOut
  • Keegan MurrayOut
  • Zach LaVineAvailable
  • Sean PedullaOut

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

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