WATCH: Paul George Drops 34 Points on the Sixers

Noel has played in 10 of the team’s 12 games so far this year, so he deserves credit for gutting it out, but he has not shown much improvement on the offensive end like the Sixers were hoping. “We have a problem and like all the things we’ll jump on it and try to get a hell of a lot better than we have been”.

“We’ve had situations this year where we didn’t close out games well and I just challenged our guys to do that”, Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. Brown’s club had no answers for George, who finished with 34 points on 13-for-24 shooting, including a 5-for-10 mark from 3-point range, to go with eight rebounds, five assists and four steals in 32 minutes of work.

Fans also sent boos down at the final buzzer. “(McConnell), Nik (Stauskas), Robert (Covington), and Jerami (Grant) will start out with Paul George, a solid matchup there”, Brown said. Philadelphia entered averaging a league-worst 18 turnovers and was coming off a season-high 27 turnovers in Monday’s 92-86 home loss to Dallas. So the 76ers were hit with a technical foul for having too many men on the court.

Okafor only took one shot in the third quarter and five in the fourth. He added 16 rebounds, which matched his season high, as Atlanta ended Sacramento’s three-game winning streak and beat the Kings for the 15th straight time.

Pacers: Neither G George Hill (illness) nor G Rodney Stuckey (sprained right ankle) was in the lineup. His season-high came on November 6 when he tallied 36 points on 14-of-27 shooting in a 90-87 win over the Miami Heat.

However-the Philadelphia 76ers may never recover. Wednesday’s total resulted in 37 in points.

Evan Fournier scored 26 points, including a game-winning three-pointer with 3.1 seconds remaining in overtime to lead the Orlando Magic to a 104-101 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves at Amway Arena. McConnell was leading the Sixers in rebounding most of the night.