{"id":687237,"date":"2026-03-30T02:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687237\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:47:14","slug":"pascal-siakam-scores-30-points-to-give-pacers-135-118-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687237\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascal Siakam scores 30 points to give Pacers 135-118 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Pascal Siakam scored 30 points and Micah Potter added 21 and tied a career high with five 3-pointers to help <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-tanking-831967b8d13b107d744875595ce7632a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Indiana Pacers<\/a> get past the Miami Heat for a rare victory, 135-118 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Siakam also had 11 rebounds and six assists for short-handed Indiana. Potter scored 19 points and made all of his 3s as part of a flurry of 13 first half 3-pointers for the Pacers. Kobe Brown was one of five other Indiana players to score in double figures. He had a career-high 18 points as Indiana won for just the second time since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers finished with 18 3s in their 17th win, matching Brooklyn and Washington for the fewest victories in the NBA this season.<\/p>\n<p>Miami&#8217;s loss was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/heat-cavaliers-score-3304d87c7b39a7b0475a49a0cb3d8a04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yet another potentially damaging blow<\/a> to its fading hopes of avoiding the play-in tournament and earning a top-six seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Heat have lost seven of their last eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Herro scored 23 of his 31 points in the first half and Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 17 for the Heat. All-Star Bam Adebayo finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana finally took control of the fast-paced, high-scoring contest with two late runs after Brown&#8217;s 3 with 4 seconds left in the third quarter gave the Pacers a 108-107 lead. Miami scored four straight early in the fourth to take a 111-110 lead, but Indiana answered with an 11-2 run to make it 121-113 before closing the game on a 14-3 spurt to close it out.<\/p>\n<p>Miami played without guard Norman Powell, who sat out because of an upper respiratory infection.<\/p>\n<p>    Up next<\/p>\n<p>Heat: Open a three-game homestand Monday against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers: Visit Chicago on Wednesday, the start of a three-game road trip.<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Pascal Siakam scored 30 points and Micah Potter added 21 and tied a career high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-687237","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116315845281467010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687237","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=687237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}