The Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat will meet Friday, Oct. 30, at 8:00 p.m. at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, opening the first of three regular-season games between them. It is also their first NBA Cup game, which gives an early-season matchup a little more weight than a routine October night.
Tyrese Haliburton is back in the fold for Indiana after the Pacers' 2025 NBA Finals run, and that alone makes this a different kind of meeting than last season's 2-1 series win for Indiana. The game will air on DAZN in Indiana and WPLG Local 10 in South Florida, with radio coverage on 107.5 FM and 93.5 FM in Indiana and 104.3 FM/560 AM plus 710/1140 AM in South Florida.
The records sharpen the interest. Indiana entered at 2-3, while Miami came in at 1-4 even after beating the Atlanta Hawks, 129-117, for its first win of the season. That leaves the Heat trying to steady a start that has not matched the roster changes around them, including the move that brought Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis in and sent Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kasparas Jakucionis and Kel'el Ware the other way, while the Pacers are still adjusting after replacing Myles Turner and Bennedict Mathurin with Ivica Zubac and Kelly Oubre Jr.
There is also a hard number behind the home-court edge Miami is trying to protect. The Heat are 44-25 at home against Indiana in the regular season, but they are 59-78 overall in the matchup and 15-53 on the road. Indiana won both home games in last season's series, so Friday is not just the first NBA Cup game between the teams; it is the first chance this season for Miami to show that its new start can travel against a familiar opponent. The next confirmed step is simple: tipoff at 8:00 p.m. in Miami.
