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NBA 2026-27 · Regular season · Meeting 2 of the season

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

Pistons

Detroit Pistons

5-1

8:00 PM ET

Scheduled

Heat

Miami Heat

2-4

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 8:00 PM ET (Nov 15, 10:00 KST)Kaseya Center, Miami

What's at stake

Current standings (92 games played league-wide) plus this one result, recomputed for the 15 East teams. Arithmetic, not odds.

Pistons win

  • PistonsEast #3→#1Magic 74→72Top-6 magic 74→73
  • HeatEast #10→#11play-in (7–10)→outside the top 10Tragic 76→75
9 more teams

Heat win

Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
PistonsEast #3 · 5-174-74
HeatEast #10 · 2-4-76-

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 2 of 4 this season

Pistons 1Heat 0

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Sat, Nov 14 game · Miami

Local date

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Pistons

  • Jalen DurenOut
  • Isaiah JoeOut
  • Elijah HarklessOut
  • Isaac JonesAvailable
  • Ugonna OnyensoOut

Heat

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

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.