The Philadelphia 76ers grabbed their 14th win of the season on Friday night, defeating the visiting Indiana Pacers 115-105, even with Tyrese Maxey sidelined due to illness.<\/p>\n
Even more encouraging than the victory itself was the sight of Joel Embiid\u2019s best performance of the season by a fair margin \u2014 not only statistically so, but he looked the most comfortable physically he has in a long time. Embiid put up a season-high 39 points on 12-for-23 (52.2%) field goal shooting and 13-for-18 shooting from the charity stripe in 31:56 on the floor. He sank two triples, grabbed nine rebounds (two offensive) and added three assists and a steal.<\/p>\n
He looked extremely fluid moving laterally and didn\u2019t seem to be hampered by pain at really any instance throughout this one. Though not exactly red-hot from long range, Embiid was sinking silky smooth midrange jumpers and drawing fouls out of the Pacers left and right. His grittiest play came at a moment the Sixers needed it most late in the fourth period, with Embiid battling under the rim for an offensive board and getting up the put-back to help secure the Philadelphia win.<\/p>\n
How sustainable this level of play from Embiid is in his current health state remains to be seen. Regardless, it\u2019s still nice to enjoy a vintage big fella performance when we can get one.<\/p>\n
But here, let\u2019s watch Embiid\u2019s season-best performance from Friday evening!<\/p>\n
What impressed you most about Embiid\u2019s game against the Pacers? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers grabbed their 14th win of the season on Friday night, defeating the visiting Indiana Pacers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817,41951,53538],"class_list":{"0":"post-471368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia76ers","14":"tag-sixers-highlights","15":"tag-sixers-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115713269221661568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}