{"id":687556,"date":"2026-03-30T07:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:10:29","slug":"pacers-135-118-heat-mar-29-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687556\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers 135-118 Heat (Mar 29, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS — \u2014 Pascal Siakam<\/a> scored 30 points and Micah Potter<\/a> added 21 and tied a career high with five 3-pointers to help the <\/a>Indiana Pacers<\/a> get past the Miami Heat<\/a> for a rare victory, 135-118 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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

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

Miami’s loss was 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

Tyler Herro<\/a> scored 23 of his 31 points in the first half and Jaime Jaquez Jr<\/a>. added 17 for the Heat. All-Star Bam Adebayo<\/a> finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Indiana finally took control of the fast-paced, high-scoring contest with two late runs after Brown’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

Miami played without guard Norman Powell<\/a>, who sat out because of an upper respiratory infection.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Heat: Open a three-game homestand Monday against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Pacers: Visit Chicago on Wednesday, the start of a three-game road trip.<\/p>\n

—— AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS — \u2014 Pascal Siakam scored 30 points and Micah Potter added 21 and tied a career high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-687556","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\/116316878554755824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687556","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=687556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}