{"id":707833,"date":"2026-04-11T02:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:09:43","slug":"sixers-take-down-tanking-pacers-still-a-very-slim-chance-at-the-sixth-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707833\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers take down tanking Pacers, still a (very slim) chance at the sixth seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even wins like this come with their bumps and bruises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Sixers knocked off the Indiana Pacers 105-94 Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They are now 44-37 and can finish no worse than the eighth seed in the East after the Charlotte Hornets lost earlier in the night to the Detroit Pistons. If the Brooklyn Nets can miraculously knock off the Toronto Raptors Sunday, the sixth seed could be in play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tyrese Maxey impressively battled his way to 32 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Twenty-seven of his points came before tweaking his right pinky late in the third quarter. He was somehow still the only Sixer other than Paul George to hit a three for the first 45 minutes of this game. George put up 21, shooting 9-of-19 from the floor and 3-of-9 from three along with five boards and two assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">VJ Edgecombe had 16 on 7-of-14 shooting with nine rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are some thoughts at the buzzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even wins like this come with their bumps and bruises. The Sixers knocked off the Indiana Pacers 105-94&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114,42915],"class_list":{"0":"post-707833","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-sixers-scores"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116383643332217276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707833","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=707833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}