The setback gave the Sixers a 2½-game cushion over the Brooklyn Nets for the league’s fifth-worst record with three games remaining.
The Boston Celtics will go for a regular-season sweep of the Knicks when they travel to New York on Tuesday night.
Winners of four straight and 10 of 12, the Indiana Pacers roll into the regular season's closing stretch looking to solidify home-court advantage for the playoffs with the Washington Wizards visiting ...