Turner, Siakam power Pacers to 140-112 victory over Jazz

INDIANPOLIS (AP) — Myles Turner had 26 points, seven rebounds and six blocked shots, and the Indiana Pacers beat the Utah Jazz 140-112 on Friday night for their third straight victory.

Pascal Siakam scored 22 points and Bennedict Mathurin had 20, going 12 for 16 from the free throw line.

Collin Sexton had 27 points and Johnny Juzang had 17 for Utah.

Turner had four blocks in the decisive third quarter. Siakam had a season-best four blocks and Indiana registered a season-best 17 — two short of the franchise record set in 1979 at Washington.

Jazz: The league's worst team provided a glimmer of hope by beating the Pacers at their own game — for a half. They were quicker, made 10 3s and even grabbed 11 offensive rebounds in the first two quarters. But the short-handed roster eventually ran out of gas.

Pacers: Indiana overcame a poor first half by digging down and finding a way to win. The Pacers will need to be cleaner and more efficient in the playoffs, but they're inching closer to getting home-court advantage in the first round for the first time since 2014.

Indiana scored nine straight to turn an 87-83 deficit into a 92-87 lead late in the third quarter, six coming after Keyonte George's technical foul at the 3:07 mark. The Pacers never trailed again.

The Pacers offset a poor free-throw shooting night (26 of 38) by making 67.4% from the field and scoring 83 points in the second half.

Utah closes out the Eastern Conference portion of its schedule Sunday in Atlanta. Indiana visits Denver on Sunday, its second-to-last road game of the regular season.

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Utah Jazz forward Kyle Filipowski (22) drives on Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner (33) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Utah Jazz guard Collin Sexton (2) shoots over Indiana Pacers forward Obi Toppin (1) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Utah Jazz forward Kyle Filipowski (22) shoots over Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner (33) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Utah Jazz guard Keyonte George (3) go up for a dunk over Indiana Pacers forward Obi Toppin (1) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Utah Jazz guard Collin Sexton (2) drives on Indiana Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard (2) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Indiana Pacers forward Johnny Furphy (12) strips the ball from Utah Jazz guard Johnny Juzang (33) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton (0) is fouled as he shoots between Utah Jazz forward Brice Sensabaugh (28) and forward Kyle Filipowski (22) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Indianapolis, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares nosedived on Monday after the meltdown Friday on Wall Street over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff hikes and the backlash from Beijing.

U.S. futures also signaled further weakness. The future for the S&P 500 lost 4.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 3.5%. The future for the Nasdaq lost 5.3%.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index lost nearly 8% shortly after the market opened and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 tumbled more than 6%.

South Korea’s Kospi lost 4.4%.

Oil prices sank further, with U.S. benchmark crude down 4%, or $2.50, at $59.49 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, gave up $2.25 to $63.33 a barrel.

On Friday, Wall Street’s worst crisis since COVID slammed into a higher gear. The S&P 500 plummeted 6% and the Dow plunged 5.5%. The Nasdaq composite dropped 5.8%.

The losses came after China matched President Donald Trump’s big raise in tariffs announced last week, upping the stakes in a trade war that could end with a recession that hurts everyone. Even a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market, usually the economic highlight of each month, wasn't enough to stop the slide.

So far there have been few, if any, winners in financial markets from the trade war. Stocks for all but 14 of the 500 companies within the S&P 500 index fell Friday. The price of crude oil tumbled to its lowest level since 2021. Other basic building blocks for economic growth, such as copper, also saw prices slide on worries the trade war will weaken the global economy.

China’s response to U.S. tariffs caused an immediate acceleration of losses in markets worldwide. The Commerce Ministry in Beijing said it would respond to the 34% tariffs imposed by the U.S. on imports from China with its own 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, among other measures.

The United States and China are the world’s two largest economies.

The central question looking ahead is: Will the trade war cause a global recession? If it does, stock prices may need to come down even more than they have already. The S&P 500 is down 17.4% from its record set in February.

Trump seemed unfazed. From Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, he headed to his golf course a few miles away after writing on social media that “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH.”

The Federal Reserve could cushion the blow of tariffs on the economy by cutting interest rates, which can encourage companies and households to borrow and spend. But the Fed may have less freedom to move than it would like.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Friday that tariffs could drive up expectations for inflation and lower rates could fuel still more price increases.

“Our obligation is to keep longer-term inflation expectations well anchored and to make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem,” Powell said.

Much will depend on how long Trump’s tariffs stick and what kind of retaliations other countries deliver. Some of Wall Street is holding onto hope that Trump will lower the tariffs after prying “wins” from other countries following negotiations.

Trump has said Americans may feel “some pain” because of tariffs, but he has also said the long-term goals, including getting more manufacturing jobs back to the United States, are worth it.

On Wall Street, stocks of companies that do lots of business in China fell to some of the sharpest losses.

DuPont dropped 12.7% after China said its regulators are launching an anti-trust investigation into DuPont China group, a subsidiary of the chemical giant. It’s one of several measures targeting American companies and in retaliation for the U.S. tariffs.

GE Healthcare got 12% of its revenue last year from the China region, and it fell 16%.

In the bond market, Treasury yields fell, but they pared their drops following Powell’s cautious statements about inflation. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.01% from 4.06% late Thursday and from roughly 4.80% early this year. It had gone below 3.90% in the morning.

US President Donald Trump appears on a television screen at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

A screen displays financial news as traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)