Tyrese Maxey led the way with a playoff-high 46 points in the Sixers' 112-106 victory. He helped lift Joel Embiid, who struggled despite producing a triple-double.
Tyrese Maxey led the way with a playoff-high 46 points in the Sixers' 112-106 victory. He helped lift Joel Embiid, who struggled despite producing a triple-double.over the New York Knicks extended their first-round series for at least another game. The Sixers head into Thursday’s 9 p.m. Game 6 trailing three games to two.Tyrese Maxey, new Sixers alpha, would not let them lose Game 5 in New York despite Joel Embiid’s strugglesa lucrative contract is the worst-kept secret in the league.
What almost doomed the Sixers’ Tuesday was turnovers and poor foul shooting. They committed 16 turnovers that led to 21 points for New York. The Sixers also only made 13 of 19 free throws. Then Embiid’s three-point play gave them a 106-102 cushion with 1 minute, 40 seconds left in overtime. But he was called for a flagrant foul 18 seconds later while defending Jalen Brunson. Brunson hit the first free throw and after he missed the second, the Knicks got the rebound and he drained a three to knot the score. Kelly Oubre Jr.’s layup with 1:02 left gave the Sixers the lead again, and with 15.
“The team we had against Denver lost tonight, maybe. A lot of stuff happened in between, and we stayed in position. So, yes, anyway, because you got two big-time players, ambition in a sports town like Philly that wants to be great, wants to move on.”
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