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

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

Rockets

Houston Rockets

6-1

7:30 PM ET

Scheduled

Heat

Miami Heat

2-4

Mon, Nov 16, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET (Nov 17, 09:30 KST)Kaseya Center, Miami

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.

Rockets win

  • HeatEast #10→#11play-in (7–10)→outside the top 10Tragic 76→75
  • RocketsMagic 74→73Top-6 magic 75→74
10 more teams

Heat win

Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
RocketsWest #2 · 6-174-75
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 1 of 2 this season

Rockets 0Heat 0

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Rockets

  • Steven AdamsOut
  • Reed SheppardAvailable
  • Clint CapelaOut
  • Quadir CopelandOut
  • Julian PhillipsOut

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.