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NBA 2026-27 · Regular season · Meeting 4 of the season

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

Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

4-3

8:00 PM ET

Scheduled

Spurs

San Antonio Spurs

5-2

Fri, Mar 19, 2027 · 8:00 PM ET (Mar 20, 09:00 KST)Frost Bank Center, San Antonio

What's at stake

Current standings (103 games played league-wide) plus this one result, recomputed for the 15 West teams. Arithmetic, not odds.

Mavericks win

  • SpursWest #4→#7top 6→play-in (7–10)Magic 75→-
  • MavericksWest #10→#8
8 more teams

Spurs win

9 more teams

Both teams going in

TeamMagicTragicTop-6 magic
MavericksWest #10 · 4-3---
SpursWest #4 · 5-275--

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 4 of 4 this season

Mavericks 0Spurs 1

Before this game

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Fri, Mar 19 game · San Antonio

Local date

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Team records

Season records counted by this site from BALLDONTLIE results.

Injury report

Mavericks

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

Spurs

  • Jayden QuaintanceOut
  • Tobias HarrisOut

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.