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

What does Hornets vs Clippers change in the NBA playoff race?

Hornets

Charlotte Hornets

3-5

4:30 PM ET

Scheduled

Clippers

LA Clippers

1-5

Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · 4:30 PM ET (Nov 16, 06:30 KST)Intuit Dome, Los Angeles

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What's at stake

Current standings (103 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.

Hornets win

Clippers win

11 more teams

Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
HornetsEast #9 · 3-5---
ClippersWest #13 · 1-5-74-

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

Hornets 0Clippers 0

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Hornets

  • Kon KnueppelOut
  • Grant WilliamsOut

Clippers

  • Bradley BealOut
  • Yanic Konan NiederhauserOut
  • Brandon IngramOut
  • Jordan MillerOut
  • Derrick Jones Jr.Out
  • Rui HachimuraOut

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.