Sixers Bell Ringer playoff standings:
Ben Simmons - 2
Joel Embiid - 2
Tobias Harris - 1
George Hill - 1
After playing dreadfully in Game 1, and scoring zero points in the first half of Game 2, the Sixers’ bench unit finally came alive in the second half tonight, sparked by 14 points from 11th man Shake Milton. With Atlanta leading 80-79 with 2:19 remaining in the third quarter, Milton hit a 3 — Philadelphia’s first bench points — less than a minute after entering the game for the first time himself. Milton would hit another 3 at the buzzer of the third quarter to stretch the Sixers’ lead to seven, before the Tobi-plus-bench group extended the lead to 20 across the first five minutes of the fourth quarter.