Pacers 115, 76ers 102
PHILADELPHIA -- C.J. Miles scored 25 points off the bench, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 3:39 left, as the Indiana Pacers rallied to beat the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers 115-102 on Saturday night.
Paul George added 20 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for Indiana (40-36), the eighth seed in the NBA's Eastern Conference, and Rodney Stuckey scored 17 points.
Isaiah Canaan had 24 for Philadelphia (9-68), which needs one victory in its remaining five games to avoid matching the 1972-73 Sixers for the worst full-season record in NBA history.
Jerami Grant had 20 points and nine rebounds for Philadelphia, which has dropped 13 straight games and 25 of 26. Carl Landry scored 19 points.0
The Sixers were without Nerlens Noel (right knee contusion) for the sixth straight game and Richaun Holmes (right Achilles strain) for the fourth straight.
Jahlil Okafor is out for the season because of a knee injury, and Hollis Thompson was a late scratch for the 76ers with an upper respiratory infection.
They nonetheless rallied from an 18-point deficit to take a six-point lead early in the fourth quarter. The game was tied five times late in the game, the last time at 98-98 on a basket by Indiana's Monta Ellis.
After a Philadelphia turnover, Miles drilled the last of his five 3-pointers from the top of the circle to put his team ahead to stay.
Indiana outscored Philadelphia 19-4 in the final 4:40. George nailed a pair of 3-pointers in that stretch, and George Hill and Ian Mahinmi each contributed had a three-point play.
Landry scored 14 points to propel the Sixers to a 28-23 lead late in the first quarter, but the Pacers reeled off the next 14 points, seven by Stuckey and five by Miles, to go up 37-28 early in the second period.
The Pacers, up 61-49 at the half, extended their lead to 71-53 early in the third quarter, but the Sixers ended the quarter with a 24-3 flurry that included four 3-pointers as well as a three-point play by Ish Smith.
Grant's follow shot with 1:34 left put them ahead, and Nik Stauskas punctuated the run with a driving dunk, leaving with the Sixers with a 77-74 cushion heading into the fourth quarter.
A layup by T.J. McConnell with 10:25 left put Philadelphia up 84-78.
NOTES: Pacers coach Frank Vogel changed his lineup, giving F Lavoy Allen, a former Sixer, his first start since Jan. 26 (and his 22nd overall), and relegating F Myles Turner to a reserve role. The biggest reason for the switch, Vogel said, is that his team needed a rim protector on the second group. "This is not an indictment of that starting five," Vogel said. "I think that's our future starting five. It's just right now we need a spark, and I think this is the answer." ... Sixers coach Brett Brown said C/F Nerlens Noel and F Richaun Holmes remain day-to-day.