MIAMI – Tyrese Maxey scored 37 points, Joel Embiid extra 29 and the Philadelphia 76ers topped the Miami Warmth 109-105 on Thursday night to tighten the Jap Meeting playoff chase.
Maxey was one rebound shy of a triple-double, ending with 11 assists and nine boards for Philadelphia. Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 18 factors for the 76ers, who moved within a half-video game of Miami for No. 7 in the East.
Terry Rozier had 22 details and Jimmy Butler additional 20 for Miami, which entered the night No. 6 in the East but ceded that place again to Indiana. Bam Adebayo had 14, Haywood Highsmith scored 12, Kevin Really like had 11 factors and 16 rebounds off the bench and Nikola Jovic included 11 points for Miami.
Embiid, in his 2nd game back just after lacking two months adhering to medical procedures on the meniscus in his left knee, shot 11 for 25, and the 76ers had been outscored by 19 factors in his 32-as well as minutes.
Embiid checked out with 7:33 remaining and the Heat leading 100-93. It only appeared like the 76ers were in difficulties.
By the time Embiid returned, Philadelphia had the direct for superior. Oubre hit a corner 3-pointer with 3:30 still left to put Philly back again on leading, section of a 14-2 operate that wound up getting just plenty of. Rozier strike a 3-pointer to get Miami in just two, Butler skipped what would have been a go-forward 3 with 5.2 seconds left, and the 76ers escaped.
It was 88-87 Miami going into the fourth, which implies that the initial 36 minutes were shut. They were not.
All those a few quarters were being just one particular wild temper swing just after a further. Philadelphia scored the game’s 1st 12 points and opened on a 17-2 run, and Miami set collectively a 25-6 operate later on in the fifty percent to take a 46-43 guide.
And then the ebbs and flows seriously started out: Philadelphia went on a 20-1 run for a 63-47 guide, Miami scored the previous eight factors of the fifty percent — capped by a buzzer-beating 3 from Rozier — to get within 63-55, the 76ers led by as lots of as 10 in the third, then Miami went on a 17- operate spanning the close of the 3rd and get started of the fourth to go up 95-87.
On a night time of runs, the last a person went to Philly.
UP Up coming
76ers: Take a look at Memphis on Saturday.
Heat: Stop by Houston on Friday.
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