The Washington Wizards emerged victorious 112-105 over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday in the battle of the East\u2019s bottom feeders at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n
In a game with massive draft lottery implications, the Wizards took control for most of the contest. After a back-and-forth first quarter, Washington closed out the first half with a 17-6 run, taking a 59-47 advantage into the break. Tristan Vukcevic paced the Wiz with all 12 of his points coming before halftime.<\/p>\n
Bilal Coulibaly came out motivated to start the second half, scoring or assisting on Washington\u2019s first 11 points to help his team take a 17-point lead \u2014 the largest of the game. He also completed a pretty sweet pick-six for a slam.<\/p>\n
The Pacers battled back with a 24-9 run to get within two points. A strong close to the quarter from the Wizards\u2019 bench mob brought the lead back to 88-80 heading into the final period. Jaden Hardy, Alondis Williams, and Kadary Richmond all gave fans a glimpse of what they can do.<\/p>\n
Washington nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, as Indiana retook the lead midway through the fourth quarter with a 17-6 wave. But the Wizards countered with a 14-0 stretch to seal the victory, buoyed by some big shots from Bub Carrington and Anthony Gill.<\/p>\n
Seven different players scored in double figures in this one. Carrington, Gill, Kadary Richmond, and Jaden Hardy all tied for the team lead with 13 apiece.<\/p>\n
The Wizards and Pacers do it all again Friday, with the loser leaving with the crown for the worst record in the East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards emerged victorious 112-105 over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday in the battle of the East\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114,14947],"class_list":{"0":"post-613194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pacers","14":"tag-washington-wizards-recaps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116101735069738218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}