MILWAUKEE — Tyrese Maxey scored a career-high 54 points and tied the game by hitting two free throws with seven seconds left in the fourth quarter of the Philadelphia 76ers’ 123-114 overtime victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday (Friday in Manila).
n Philadelphia 76ers’ Tyrese Maxey gets past Milwaukee Bucks’ AJ Green during overtime of an NBA basketball game on Nov. 20, 2025, in Milwaukee. AP PHOTO/MORRY GASH
Maxey’s previous career high was a 52-point performance in a 133-126, double-overtime victory over San Antonio on April 7, 2024. He also had nine assists and played over 46 1/2 minutes.
Maxey, who entered Thursday averaging a league-high 40.3 minutes, had played 39 minutes one night earlier in a 121-112 home loss to the Toronto Raptors.
Milwaukee’s Ryan Rollins scored 32 points to match a career high and also had a career-best 14 assists. The Bucks have lost four of their last five games.
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Neither team had its former league MVP available.
Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, the MVP in 2019 and 2020, got hurt Monday at Cleveland and is expected to miss about two weeks. The Bucks labeled it a left groin strain Monday but have since specified that it’s a left adductor strain.
Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, who won the award in 2023, missed a sixth straight game due to an issue with his right knee.
Paul George added 21 points for Philadelphia. Bobby Portis had 19 and Kyle Kuzma 17 for Milwaukee.
Magic 129, Clippers 101
In Orlando, Jalen Suggs scored a season-high 23 points and added seven assists.
Franz Wagner scored 20 points and Tristan da Silva added 17 points and eight rebounds for the Magic, who have won five of six. Anthony Black came off the Orlando bench with 12 points, four rebounds, four assists and four steals.
James Harden had 31 points and eight assists for the Clippers. Ivica Zubac, the only other Clipper in double figures, had 14 points and 19 rebounds.
The injury-riddled Clippers, playing the fourth game of a seven-game road trip, lost for the ninth time in 10 games.
The Clippers played a second straight game without Derrick Jones Jr. (knee) and Jordan Miller (hamstring) and a ninth in a row without Kawhi Leonard (ankle and foot). The Magic played a fourth consecutive game without Paolo Banchero (groin).
Suggs scored 20 points in the first half and finished with five 3-pointers. He did not play in the final quarter.
Orlando made 18 of 34 3-point shots (52.9 percent). Suggs made one to put the Magic up 61-49 at halftime.
Grizzlies 137, Kings 96
In Memphis, Santi Aldama scored 29 points, Jock Landale added 21 and the Memphis Grizzlies built a big first-half lead and sent the Sacramento Kings to their eighth straight loss.
Cedric Coward scored 19 points and Zach Edey finished with 16 points as Memphis snapped a five-game losing streak. Vince Williams had a career-best 15 assists.
Zach LaVine led the Kings with 26 points, connecting on 10 of 17 shots. Maxine Raynaud finished with 12 points. Russell Westbrook and Keegan Murray, making his season debut, scored 11 points each. Murray had been out of action since a left thumb injury in the preseason.
The Kings have lost all eight in the skid by double digits. Four of the losses have come by at least 27 points. The 41-point setback Thursday was their largest of of the season.
Before the game, the Kings announced that an MRI revealed a partial meniscus tear in the left knee of starting center Domantas Sabonis.
The team said he will be reevaluated in three to four weeks. He suffered the injury in Sunday’s loss at San Antonio.
With Sabonis out of the middle, Memphis worked inside with Edey and Landale. The tandem missed only one of their 13 shots in the firsts half, Edey scoring 16 points, Landale adding 13. Memphis shot 54 percent in the first two quarters, and the Grizzlies scored their most points in a half this season for a 75-47 lead at intermission.