Not all wins are pretty, and the Sixers proved that on Sunday afternoon in their 106-89 victory over the Indiana Pacers. In a game with major playoff implications, the Sixers had a chance to grab the third seed in the Eastern Conference from the Pacers with the win, and you could tell from the very start that a lot was on the line. Fans were hyped up for this matchup; couple that with Joel Embiid returning from an eight-game absence and the Wells Fargo Center was rocking especially hard for this one.
The first quarter was a back-and-forth affair that saw Bojan Bogdanovic get going early for the Pacers, routinely beating Jimmy Butler on his way to 7 early points.