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01/19 20:38 CST Tyrese Maxey celebrates 1st All-Star game starting nod with 29
points in 76ers' win over Pacers
Tyrese Maxey celebrates 1st All-Star game starting nod with 29 points in 76ers'
win over Pacers
By DAN GELSTON
AP Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) --- Tyrese Maxey had 29 points and eight steals hours after
being named an All-Star starter for the first time and Joel Embiid had 30
points and nine rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 113-104 win over
the Indiana Pacers on Monday night.
Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 18 points, and all five starters hit double figures.
Andrew Nembhard led the Pacers with 25 points and Pascal Siakam had 24 points
on a night in which Indiana sports fans were more likely tuned to the college
football national championship game.
Pacers coach Rick Carlisle lamented before the game he would miss the showdown
between the Hoosiers and Miami.
He called it a "bummer."
Carlisle likely felt much the same way after the Pacers followed a modest
three-game win streak with their third loss in four games.
Maxey --- who thanked his "fellow Americans" for voting him into the game ---
shot 12 of 24 from the floor and added eight assists as he continued to show
why he is one of the NBA's rising stars.
Maxey was named one of the five starters out of the Eastern Conference and is
set to play for the United States in the first version of the U.S. vs. The
World for next month's All-Star game.
Maxey will make his first start and earned his second selection for the Sixers
on the strength of averaging 30.3 points headed into the game.
Maxey said he was asleep when rookie teammate V.J. Edgecombe called around 2
p.m. to congratulate him on the selection. Maxey then took an excited phone
call from his mom --- and he went back to bed.
The 76ers sleepwalked through most of the first three quarters and trailed the
10-win Pacers at halftime and only led 82-81 at the end of the third quarter.
By the time Embiid helped put some distance between the Pacers, Maxey was
subbed out for good late in the fourth and earned a rousing ovation from Sixers
fans.
Up next Indiana: At Boston on Wednesday. 76ers: Host Phoenix on Tuesday. ___ AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA
Up next Indiana: At Boston on Wednesday. 76ers: Host Phoenix on Tuesday. ___ AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA
