Miami Heat vs New Orleans Pelicans: Odds and Predictions
The Miami Heat and the New Orleans Pelicans sit in opposite conferences and meet twice a regular season, once at each arena. This page tracks the Kalshi markets for the matchup — moneyline, spread and total — alongside the meetings already played and the ones still to come.Next game: Sat, Jan 2, 2027
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How often do the Heat and Pelicans play each other?
The Miami Heat and the New Orleans Pelicans meet twice a regular season, once at each arena. Every club plays all fifteen clubs in the other conference twice, home and away, so this is the least often the league schedules any pairing — and it is the only kind of meeting the Heat and the Pelicans get outside the NBA Finals.
Are the Heat and Pelicans in the same division?
No, and not the same conference either. The Miami Heat are a Eastern Conference club in the Southeast Division; the New Orleans Pelicans are a Western Conference club in the Southwest. That makes every meeting between them an inter-conference game.
What is at stake when the Heat play the Pelicans?
For the Heat and the Pelicans, the overall record and only that. An inter-conference game touches neither club’s division record nor its conference record — but the overall record is what the standings in each conference are ordered by in the first place, so these two games count for seeding exactly as much as any other.
Can the Heat and Pelicans meet in the playoffs?
Only in the NBA Finals. The Heat are in the Eastern Conference and the Pelicans in the Western Conference, and the playoffs are run inside each conference until the final round — so these two cannot be drawn against each other before it.
Where can I follow the Heat and Pelicans for the rest of the season?
Every Heat and Pelicans game Kalshi lists has its own market page, with the moneyline, the spread, the total and the player props built on that fixture. The NBA market index carries the rest of the league, and the matchup index carries every other pairing the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Pelicans are in.
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