Tyrese Maxey shoots the ball against Isaiah Livers in the first half at the Wells Fargo Center. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - Joel Embiid sat out after he clinched the scoring title and James Harden joined him on the bench, leaving Shake Milton and Tyrese Maxey to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 118-106 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night.The Sixers finished with the No.
4 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs and will open against Toronto.Milton scored 30 points, and Maxey and Paul Reed had 25.
Luka Garza led the Pistons with 20 points and 10 rebounds.Embiid sat at the end of the bench and Harden pulled the hood of his sweatshirt over his head and they both watched the Sixers rally from a blown 15-point lead to knock off the 59-loss Pistons.Allen Iverson was in the house and the last Sixer to win a scoring title -- four, actually— got to share the arena with this season’s champ.
Embiid finished at 30.6 points per game. Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo also rested Sunday, finishing at 29.9 points. Embiid posted those numbers in just 33.8 minutes per game, the fewest minutes averaged in a season by the scoring champion in the shot-clock era.