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

What does Cavaliers vs Mavericks change in the NBA playoff race?

Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers

4-3

8:00 PM ET

Scheduled

Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

4-3

Sat, Jan 23, 2027 · 8:00 PM ET (Jan 24, 10:00 KST)American Airlines Center, Dallas

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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.

Cavaliers win

10 more teams

Mavericks win

4 more teams

Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
CavaliersEast #4 · 4-374-75
MavericksWest #10 · 4-3---

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

Cavaliers 0Mavericks 0

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Local date

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Cavaliers

  • Jaylon TysonOut
  • Peyton WatsonOut

Mavericks

  • Santi AldamaOut
  • Dereck Lively IIOut
  • Tarik BiberovicOut
  • Sergio De LarreaOut
  • Kyrie IrvingOut
  • Max ChristieDay-To-Day

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.