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

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

Clippers

LA Clippers

1-5

7:00 PM ET

Scheduled

Heat

Miami Heat

2-4

Fri, Dec 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET (Dec 19, 09:00 KST)Kaseya Center, Miami

What's at stake

Current standings (101 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.

Clippers win

Heat win

  • HeatEast #10→#9Magic 76→75Tragic 76→-
  • ClippersWest #13→#14Tragic 74→73
7 more teams

Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
ClippersWest #13 · 1-5-74-
HeatEast #10 · 2-47676-

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 2 this season

Clippers 0Heat 0

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Fri, Dec 18 game · Miami

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Clippers

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

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.