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Final Score: Detroit 94 - Philadelphia 101

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Samuel Dalembert scored 20 points and hauled in 13 rebounds and the Philadelphia 76ers maintained their Eastern Conference playoff standing with a 101-94 victory over the Detroit Pistons at the Wachovia Center.

Dalembert was 6-for-6 from the field in the first half for 13 points and seven boards, and Philadelphia shot 50.7 percent from the floor and never trailed en route to its third win in four games. Andre Iguodala scored 25 to go with six assists and five rebounds, while Willie Green added 15 for the Sixers (40-38), who remained a game ahead of seventh-seeded Toronto and a game behind fifth- standing Washington in the East.

Chauncey Billups led Detroit with 18 points and five assists, as the Pistons, who have already locked up the conference's No. 2 seed, dropped a second straight contest. Juan Dixon scored 13 off the bench, and Rodney Stuckey added 10 to go with six assists. The Pistons were again without Richard Hamilton, who is still nursing a sore left hip.

Philly led by eight after three quarters, and Iguodala buried a left-wing jumper three less than two minutes into the fourth to make it 88-74. Detroit appeared to concede the outcome soon after, as head coach Flip Saunders went with a lineup that featured Dixon, Stuckey, Jarvis Hayes, Jason Maxiell and Amir Johnson for much of the rest of the way.

Still, the Pistons closed back within five, at 93-88 with about 3 1/2 minutes to go when Stuckey found Johnson for a slam and Walter Hermann buried a three. Lou Williams lobbed to Iguodala for a dunk, restoring a seven-point Philly advantage, and the Sixers managed to hold on down the stretch.

Williams finished with 12 points and seven assists off the Sixers bench, and Andre Miller scored six to go with his team-high nine helpers.

Tayshaun Prince scored nine for Detroit, while Antonio McDyess, Rasheed Wallace and Hayes all totaled eight points.

Philadelphia led 29-25 after one quarter, and maintained its slim margin through the midway point of the second.

Jason Smith's blocked shot led to a Miller bucket in transition, giving the Sixers a 42-37 lead with 6:17 to go in the half. Just over two minutes later, Miller found Dalembert with an alley-oop to push the margin to 50-41, and Philly went to the locker room holding a 58-52 advantage.

Detroit got within five just past the midway point of the third when Billups hit a three before the Sixers responded with a 7-2 mini-spurt to go back up 75-66. Prince's three-point play trimmed the margin to 75-71 with 1:17 left in the third, but it was back to an eight-point bulge, 81-73, by the end of the stanza.