Parker Jackson-Cartwright of the Breakers Photo: PHOTOSPORT
The Breakers will play the Kings in Sydney next week in a sudden-death play-off game in the Australian NBL.
Last night's 76-70 loss to the Adelaide 36ers in their last game of the regular season cost them any chance of a home game in the play-offs.
Instead they must now travel across the Tasman to take on the defending champions next Wednesday.
To make matters worse the Breakers have a couple of players under injury clouds with Finn Delany suffering a back injury in the warm-up, while Will McDowell-White dislocated his shoulder.
The Auckland side started well against Adelaide, but faded badly and they weren't helped by top scorer Parker Jackson-Cartwright fouling out with 24 points.
A win would have given the Breakers a double life in the play-offs.
"A lot of the stuff that is controllable for us we did really well," Breakers coach Mody Maor said.
"We never gave up, kept competing, kept playing the right way and stayed in the game.
"So I'll take a lot of the good stuff that this group has showed me during this season and this is what we're going to take into the post-season."
In the other play-off game, third seeds Tasmania play fourth seeds Illawarra.