Tyrese Maxey gave the Philadelphia 76ers another sharp reason to believe they are carrying real momentum into Sunday’s meeting with the Indiana Pacers. He scored 27 points in a 123-112 win over the Toronto Raptors, and Philadelphia finished its three-game homestand with 10 wins on the season.
Maxey is averaging 26.7 points per game, and the spread of production around him mattered just as much as the total. Six Philadelphia players finished in double figures against Toronto, with Anfernee Simons adding 17 points off the bench, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scoring 11 and handing out five assists, and VJ Edgecombe posting 15 points, eight rebounds, eight assists and three steals. Edgecombe also leads Philadelphia with 1.7 steals per game, part of a broader defensive profile that has the team ranked eighth with 109.4 points allowed entering Saturday’s games and five players averaging at least 1.2 steals per contest.
That balance is one reason the Pacers match now draws attention beyond a simple regular-season date. Philadelphia already beat Indiana 114-109 in their last meeting on October 28, 2026, and the rematch comes after Indiana followed a difficult stretch by winning two straight, first over the Washington Wizards and then 106-104 over the New York Knicks in NBA Cup group-stage play on Friday. Pascal Siakam scored 19 points in that win, Andrew Nembhard had 12 points and six assists, and T.J. McConnell added seven assists and two steals off the bench.
The friction for Indiana is the same one it has been living with all season. Tyrese Haliburton has appeared in four games but is sidelined again with a hamstring injury, after Indiana spent the 2025-26 season without him because of an Achilles injury sustained in the Finals and finished 19-63. Rick Carlisle has said, “Everything's progressing,” but the Pacers are still only 5-8, and their recent push does not erase how far they had to climb just to get back into form.
So the search around Pacers Vs 76ers match player stats is really about whether Philadelphia’s scoring depth can keep holding up when the opponent is finding its footing again. Maxey is the headline, but the next test is whether the 76ers can keep the same defensive edge and balanced attack when Indiana arrives Sunday with some momentum of its own.
