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Sixers-Pacers Preview: Avoiding The Dreaded Tie With The Sixers In The History Books

On the Sixers' potential road to surpassing the Sixers in the history books, they meet up with a Pacers team looking to cement themselves in the tight Eastern Conference playoff picture.

By now you are well aware that the Sixers have played 70 games this season, and you know that they've lost 61 of them. Like the 1973 76ers team before them, they're staring a season with single digits in the win column dead in the eyes. And, while their fate as the league's worst team has pretty much been sealed already regardless, it's our job to concern ourselves with a largely arbitrary number because, well, you've already read plenty about the jump-shot that would take Jerami Grant's game to the next level and the wacky inability of one of the league's largest front-lines to grab a defensive rebound.